This being an omnium-gatherum of the Thompsonian "gonzo" archive, there are also memorandums, drafts of book-jacket copy and movie treatment outlines.
The papers, including manuscripts of about 11,000 of Mr. Kempton's newspaper columns, plus drafts of books, will be part of Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The archive contains drafts of books, stories, essays, poems, letters and research, including the handwritten notes for "Infinite Jest," the novel that first gained him attention.
The house is full of drafts of books on collage, as well as books about his father's story that remain unfinished because the story itself lacks an ending.
It made me want to practise and work at my writing, and then write drafts of books that wouldn't ever come to anything, and then, after years of turmoil, write a novel that finally got published, called The Testimony.
"You know your judgment is better than mine," Laura said in one, which accompanied the draft of Book 4, "so what you decide is the one that stands".
In drafts of the book, over one hundred uses of the root word "creation," such as "creationism" and "Creation Science," were changed, almost without exception, to "intelligent design," while "creationists" was changed to "design proponents" or, in one instance, "cdesign proponentsists".
Early drafts of the book were essentially extended versions of the above.
The work I did on the final drafts of the book was dominated by additional references to Alice.
King wrote numerous drafts of the book, but failed to complete it, though he later said working on it fed him ideas for his novel The Stand.
And the economist Adam Smith wrote much of his masterpiece "The Wealth of Nations" in the British Coffee House, a popular meeting place for Scottish intellectuals, among whom he circulated early drafts of his book for discussion.
