Exact textual stateDraft

Jazz Music — Draft 1

StateDraft 1Surviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units1
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 Golden Caliph typescript witnessHoward typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 TSS catalogue unit

TSS: 65522

Robert E. Howard original-typescript story-text component preserved within The Golden Caliph.

Additional documentary notes

  • Amateur Periodical Context: Story text survives within The Golden Caliph; the larger issue remains physical/source context rather than a REH Writings Work. (witness level)
  • Authorial Typescript: The source code OT identifies the represented sheet(s) as original-typescript material. (witness level)

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Complete List · Jazz Music (d1) · TSS 65522 · spreadsheet rows 8962–8962

Textual witnesses & editorial mediation

These records describe how this textual state is known or represented. A witness may be authorial, editorially mediated, restored, transcribed or otherwise derived without becoming a new Howard-authored textual state.

Sentiment (2009 first printing), pp. 571–571.Later publication / editionAuthority basis: Editorially mediated witness · Treatment: Unknown / not yet reviewed

Sentiment (2009 first printing), pp. 571–571.