Archive Features ::   Mac's Pipe
Richard McKenna's pipe lay nestled among the many photos, photo albums and scrapbooks that Mr. McKenna kept throughout his life time. The writer kept meticulous notes and copies of his personal letters and correspondence.

 

This Case Includes: 

  1. Letter to McKenna (one of four written in 1938) from C.K. Everston.  Each letter is no less than five typewritten pages long. Even though Japan invaded China by this time, and even sunk an American gunboat, USS Panay, McKenna and Everston never wrote of politics. Instead, their letters are filled with discussions of literature, philosophy, good food and good wine.

  1. McKenna’s 1930’s scrapbook. He kept everything! As it is not a wise idea to handle such a fragile collection, we have made up a folder full of computer scans so that you might be able to see the wide variety of memorabilia which McKenna thought worthy of saving.

  1. Letter from Arlene Taylor, Chairman of  Carnegie Library Board in Mountain Home, thanking McKenna for the donation to his novel, SAND PEBBLES, to the Mountain Home Library.

  1.   A few of McKenna’s International Correspondence School booklets. He completed many more during his twenty-two year naval service.

  1. Autographed copy of the shooting script of “The Sand Pebbles” film.  We also have the Revised First Draft of the screenplay, film brochures, programs, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia concerning the film.

  1. McKenna’s “Dream Journal”.  He appeared to be in the habit of recording his dreams in notebooks such as these.

  2. Nebula Award information. McKenna received this award (posthumously) for his science fiction short story, “A Secret Place”.

  1. One of McKenna’s English course term papers from his time at The University of North Carolina.  He completed this course, and thirty-nine others, with an “A”.

  1. Some of the small spiral notebooks containing class notes McKenna wrote while at UNC.

  1. Handwritten copy of McKenna’s essay, “A Chronicle Of A Five Day Walking Tour Inland On Southern Portion Of Guam”.  McKenna wrote this when he was barely in his twenties shortly after he had let Mountain Home.  Although it is his earliest known work (after high school and one year at The College Of Idaho), it was not published until after his death.  It is now included in SONS OF MARTHA AND OTHER STORIES.  (The photograph, which accompanies this notebook, is a computer scan of a snapshot contained in album #9.)

  2. Writer’s notebook containing a chronological history (day by day in many cases) of the 1926-1927 Chinese Revolution.

  1. Writer’s notebook containing observations and story ideas.

 

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