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The Coming of El Borak — Draft 1

Part of The Coming of El Borak

StateDraft 1Surviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units8
Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Draft 1 — surviving Howard typescriptHoward typescript
Extent8 pagesCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 8 TSS catalogue units

TSS: 65526, 65528–65529, 65531–65533, 65535–65536

Original Robert E. Howard typescript.

Additional documentary notes

  • Untitled Witness: The main surviving Draft 1 sequence is untitled. (witness level)
  • Composition Unfinished: The spreadsheet identifies the composition as unfinished. (witness level)
  • Legal Length Paper: The spreadsheet records the manuscript as typed on legal-length paper. (witness level)
  • False Start Split Out: A separate page-1 false start from the same spreadsheet grouping is preserved as its own Textual Version rather than being flattened into this main sequence. (witness level)

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Complete List · Coming of El Borak, The (d1) · TSS 65526, 65528–65529, 65531–65533, 65535–65536 · spreadsheet rows 2269–2276