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The Builders

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StateVersion 1Surviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units2Catalogue rolePrimary / default
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.

Version-specific titles

The Builders — Version 1

Characters in this exact text

Exhaustively reviewed for this catalogued Poetry state. Generic lyric speakers/addressees, collectives, places and purely metaphorical allusions are not manufactured into permanent Characters.

No qualifying individual Characters or named entities were found in this exact textual state.

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.

Original Howard typescript — TSS 51824, 51825Howard typescript
Extent2 pagesCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 2 catalogued TSS sheets

TSS: 51824–51825

Original Typescript (OT) source code; retained as an original Howard typescript witness.

Additional documentary notes

  • Branching draft structure: The same physical TSS sheet carries material belonging to more than one permanent textual state of this poem. (TSS 51825)

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 243–244

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.

Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 297Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 1 p. 297

Published in

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume OneREH Foundation PressOctober 2022↗