Exact textual stateDraft

A Pirut Story — Draft 1

StateDraft 1Surviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units2
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 — story-text component in The Right Hook carbon-copy witnessHoward carbon copy
Extent2 pagesCompletenessComplete

Physical extent: 2 TSS catalogue units

TSS: 82385–82386

Story-text component preserved within a surviving carbon-copy issue/typescript of The Right Hook.

Additional documentary notes

  • Amateur Periodical Context: Story text survives within The Right Hook; the larger issue remains physical/source context rather than a REH Writings Work. (witness level)
  • Carbon Copy: The issue-level inventory identifies the surviving issue as a carbon copy. (witness level)

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Complete List · Pirut Story, A (d1) · TSS 82385–82386 · spreadsheet rows 11846–11847