"A Story About Friends" Typescript and Correspondence

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Williams, Joy, Plimpton, George, and Treadwell, Peggy. Letter. 1968. “‘A Story About Friends’ Typescript and Correspondence”, 1968, Joy Williams: Honored Guest, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/joy-williams/item/914

Title: "A Story About Friends" Typescript and Correspondence
Description: Cover page and first three pages of a 27-page typescript draft toward an early story published in The Paris Review (Issue 57).; Cover note from Peggy Treadwell, agent for Joy Williams, and holograph response on the verso from George Plimpton, publisher of The Paris Review, and a typescript transcription of his note.; Williams found an early and vocal supporter in George Plimpton, whose The Paris Review published “A Story About Friends” in 1974, among others in her early years as a published writer.
Creator: Williams, Joy; Plimpton, George; Treadwell, Peggy
Contributor: Treadwell, Peggy; Plimpton, George
Date: 1969; 1970: April 1; 1970: August 4
Subject: WIlliams, Joy, 1944-; Plimpton, George
Publisher: Not published
Source: Joy Williams Papers
Box 16 Folder 1
Type: Manuscript; Correspondence
Format: Paper; JPEG, 400 ppi
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
Identifier: mss158-02-16-01-04-001; mss158-02-16-01-04-002; mss158-02-16-01-04-003; mss158-02-16-01-04-004; mss158-02-16-01-04-005; mss158-02-16-01-04-006; mss158-02-16-01-04-007
Language: English

Item sets: Joy Williams: Honored Guest

Site pages: Literary Periodicals

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