Jack and Anne Rudloe Papers
MS Group 109

Part 4:  Unpublished Writings. 1957-1997. 15 boxes.

Unpublished Writings include the artifacts of completed writings not published, fragmentary works, and ideas and notes for works contemplated, but never begun. They range in length from a single sheet bearing the idea for a project to multiple versions of full length books. In addition to Rudloe's non-fiction writings, the papers contain a major effort to create a novel and several lesser attempts at the fictional format. The oldest examples date back to Rudloe's high school, or even middle school years, but most represent his work as a professional author. As with the Short Writings, many of these pieces were, or intended to be co-authored  with Anne Rudloe. This series also includes two full length manuscripts by Anne Rudloe.

Box 1: Early Manuscripts, 1957 - 1964, [ca. 1997] Includes manuscripts by Anne Rudloe. 22 folders.

   1."Benjamin County Stories." Fifteen stories, typed carbons, sewn together with a paper
     cover.
   2."Benjamin County Stories" - a. outline

     Stories and School Papers:

   3.Drawings, mostly biological
   4.School Papers, 1957-1960 (folder one)
   5.School Papers (folder 2)
   6."The Day the Sun Was Dying," short story
   7."San Francisco."
   8.Southern Trade, draft III, Feb. 19, 1962.
   9.Waters of Plague Rock
  10."Wear Carter's  or Else," (Florida State University, 1961/62) and "I Must Wear Carters"

Autobiographical or semi-Autobiographical Sketches. Some of these sketches employ
Rudloe-like characters called Leon Foote, or Jim Hollister. Leon Foote was a pseudonym used
on drafts of the "Benjamin County Stories" and Jim, a character recently moved from the north
to Florida. Others are directly autobiographical and include experiences in high school, at Florida
State University, especially the marine laboratory, incidents in the Florida Panhandle, biological
collecting, and early experiences with the the Gulf Specimen Company.

   11.Andy's Camp
   12.Autobiographical Material - Narratives
   13.Autobiographical Writing ("Creeping Rudloeism" and "The Sixties)
   14.Beginning of Gulf Specimen Co. and GSC Genesis
   15.Description of a Bus Trip, Oct. 6, 1964, and other personal fragment
   16.Florida State University (mostly fragments regarding the marine laboratory)
   17.High School  (Leon persona)
   18.Holiness Church (Jim Hollister)
   19.I the Ditch Digger (2 versions) (Leon)
   20.Incident (Jim Hollister)
   21.Yankee Students Adjustment to a Southern High School (Jim Hollister)

Anne Rudloe
22."Of Birds and the Rainbow: a Florida Life," typed ms. [ca. 1997] 228 p. Essays which
     first appeared as "commentaries on Florida Public Radio and as essays in the
     Tallahassee Democrat."

"Sing back the Swan," is an autobiographical writing by Anne Rudloe, printed on the
     verso of several other manuscripts in the Papers.

Box 2 (flat box) Sea Roach (Bathynomous)Story, also called "Beyond the Edge of the
Earth," ca. 1978. Proposed novel. 7 folders.

   1."Attack of the Sea Roach," draft III.
   2.Bathynomus Monster Story (notes)
   3."Montsano's New Process of Wood Reduction," etc.
   4."The Bathynomus That Ate Pensacola," Combined draft No. 1, Nov. 3, 1978," "The
     Bathynomus Attacks," and "Attack of Bathynomus," typed mss.
   5.The Sea Roach Story, "Attack on the Westward Wind, Sample Chapter," Nov. 22,
     1978.
   6."Beyond the Edge of the Earth," Story Outline and 2 sample chapters, Dec. 1, 1978
   7.Background material on Bathynomus and on chemical dumping.

Box  3: Queries, and titles A-B (Book of Balls) 23 folders.

   1."Article Queries," - List and abstract of proposed articles
   2."Maine" Lobsters and abstracts of proposed articles: Treasures in the Florida Keys;
     Limulus - The Horseshoe Crab, Coral Reefs, National Wildlife Refuge System, Woods
     Hole Oceanographic Institution, Last of the Trees, Sharks, Aquaculture - Farming the
     Edge of the Sea, Bahamas, Magnetic Orientation - The Biological Compass, and the
     MX Missile.
   3.Individual Queries:
     Aquaculture
     Biogenic Magnetite on Earth and Mars, a Connection?
     The Chicken and Ode to the Chicken
     Coral Management Plan
     In Search of the Sundance Sea
     It's Just a Game (Bobby Bowden)
     Magnetic Magic
     Mimosa Query
     Night of the Squid
     North Florida: A Time of Waiting
     An Obscure Moss Animal from the Sea That Fights Cancer
     Restoration Query
     The South Carolina Low Country
     Southern Gulf States, or The Golden Coast
     Tide of Death (Red Tide)
   4.Aerial Beachcomber," draft
   5.Age of Aquarius, includes contract
   6."Andros Voodoo etc." - Outline, notes
   7.[Andros Voodoo] - Correspondence re lobster importation, etc. on which story  is
     based, 1971-1974.
   8.Beach Book

     Book of Balls (Great Stone Balls)
   9.Arabacia, 21 p.
  10.Arrival (Chapter 1) 10 p, 21 p. (Feb. 16, 1991)
  11.Book of Balls - Outlines, notes [ca. 1994]
  12."Ballgame of the Gods,"
  13.[Philip] Callahan. 2 versions. 2, 27 p.
  14.Eggs and Great Stone Balls. 2 versions.  5 p., 9 p.
  15.Great Stone Balls - Blue notebook, Jan. 11, 1989.
  16.Great Stone Ball - the National Museum, Nov. 15, 1989. 2 versions, 13, 16 pp.
  17.Great Stone Balls: Voyage to the Duquis Valley in Costa Rica
  18.Stone Balls: Journey to the Duquis Valley, Nov. 16-17, 1989. 5 versions: 13, 19, 24,
     32, 30 pp.
  19.Radial Symmetry. 9 p.
  20.Summary and Nattygeo Query Notes? Sept. 4, 1994
  21.Sungod, Nov. 16, 1989. 14 p.
  22.Touring the Neighborhood. 9 p.
  23.Why People Kick Balls Around, a query by Jack & Anne Rudloe

   1."Collected Collector," proposed anthology - Outlines and correspondence, 1981-82,
     1986
   2."Conquest of Concrete"
   3."Cretaceous Sea," a novel - three sample chapters and outline
   4.Creatures of the Keys - Table of Content and Outline of proposed book

   5."Dope Trade in Florida,"
   6.Dredger's Daughter," (The Monster?) - Novel outline.

     Drugs from the Sea
   7."Cancer - A Cure from the Sea?" Query from Jack and Anne Rudloe.
   8.Collagen: The Glue of Life, by Jack and Anne Rudloe
   9.Drugs from the Sea - Book Outline
  10.Outline for a Book on Drugs from the Sea
  11.Correspondence notes, ca. 1969-70, 1988
  12.Bugla article, Readers' Digest draft, July 14, 1996

  13.Eels and sharks - fragments

  14. "Fingerprints of Life,"  - Query, correspondence, 1989
  15."Florida Springs," - Query by Jack & Anne Rudloe

  16."Great American Desert," Jack and Anne Rudloe [1984?]
  17."Great American Desert," (Geo Magazine) Proposed

  18.Gulfstream article (SI), Query, notes, correspondence, and draft
  19."Gulf Stream -- The Ocean River," by Jack and Anne Rudloe. Xerox copy of typescript.
     26 p.
   20. "Gulf Stream --  The Ocean River," Draft III, Sept. 14, 1981. Title page, ms., fragment
     (2p), notes, and background material.

  21."Islands in the Sun: the Barrier Beach Coast," - Query, sources, etc., 1988
  22."Jellyfish Fever," Proposal to National Geographic's Explorer Journal (?), etc. ca. 1994
  23.Jellyfish King; "stuff for an outline," ca. 1995
  24.The Jellyfish Papers (book proposal) 1996

   1.Lobster article
   2."Lobsters - South Florida Gold," by Jack and Anne Rudloe. Correspondence with
     Tropic (Miami Herald), 1981-82.
   3."The New Wilderness Coast," (Return of the Wilderness Coast) - Outline
   4.Occult/ Voodoo Book - Outline, fragments
   5."Of Mountains and Reefs," - Outline and correspondence, 1988
   6."Ordeal at St, Joe Bay," by Anne Rudloe, as told to Jack Rudloe (Reader's Digest, -
     Drafts, correspondence, 1983-1984)
   7."The Panther," (Panacea)
   8."Park Prospects," [Prospect Park notes and outline]
   9."Public Relations for Mud," draft 4

  10."Ray Trip," Nov. 26, 1991
  11."Red Wolf - White Wine: an Endangered Species Cookbook,"
  12.Rudloe Anthology - Outline and selections

  13."Sakaim," etc. - American Indian folklore and myth
  14.Shrimp book - Print out of computer files
  15."Spirls in the Sea,"
  16.Superchicken [novel, ca. 1982
  17.Surinam
  18.Swamp monster [novel, ca. 1983]

   1."The Ten Drums of Madagascar," typed ms. with a. revisions (incomplete?). 1st draft.
     221 p.
   2."The Ten Drums of Madagascar," Outline and sample pages, 13 p.

   3.Tides (Smithsonian) - Proposal, correspondence, background, etc. 1996
   4.[Tides] "Turning of the Tides," Query, correspondence (Smithsonian, Sports
     Illustrated), sources, etc., 1993-1996
   5.[Tides] "Users of the Tides," draft 12, Feb. 12, 1984
   6.[Tides] fragmentary ms.
   7.Tides\Volume 0-VII  122 p.
   8.Tides\Anne's Notes in Washington (Anne's Silver Spring Notes) 10 p.
   9.Tides\Outline (marked "not used material) and odd pages.
  10.[Tides] Trip plans and itinerary for Norfolk, Boston, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1993.

  11.Turtle Mother (novel) - notes, etc.
  12.Turtles (Smithsonian) 1989

  13.Upland Marshes," (NPCA Magazine) - Draft, correspondence, 1973-74

           "Potluck," a complete novel exists in numerous versions and drafts written approximately
over ten years. It's original title "Shrimper's Log," was conceived and begun as a non-fictional
account of shrimping life, for which a contract was signed with Viking Press. Along the way,
Rudloe became interested in writing a novel, centering on drug smuggling by shrimp fisherman,
and the germ of the narrative became incorporated into a novel, later called "Easy Money," and
finally "Potluck." Versions are identified here as "Shrimper's Log (ca. 1978), "Easy Money,
(ca.1980), Potluck I (ca. 1983), and Potluck II (ca. 1988). Cf. letter to Corliss M. Smith,
Viking, July 2, 1980 (Box 7, folder #3).

Box 7: Shrimper's Log: Manuscripts, fragments, etc. 20 folders

        1.Original Viking Outline. Note from Pat Irwin, Viking Press, Nov. 9 [1978?] Draft
          of Shrimper's Log (A Narrative Outline), 33 p., with extensive notations and letter
          from Joseph G. Halusky, May 12, 1978;  and sheet of notes. [This folder title was
          supplied by Rudloe. The draft referred to may be the one in folder #2.]
        2.Shrimper's Log (A Narrative Outline) by Jack Rudloe. 26 p.
        3.Viking Press correspondence, 1978-1988
        4.Shrimper's Log - Correspondence, 1977-1990, 1996
        5."Shrimp Boat Adventures," Outline draft 2, Dec. 19, 1973. Typed ms.
        6."On Writing Shrimper's Log," Notes, 2 p.
        7.Captain Dasher, April 10, 1978
        8.Dena Marie, Jan. 11-12, 1978 (Pea Picker Expedition)
        9.Lady Margaret. Mississippi Trip, May 31-June 3, 1978.
       10.Miss Janel, April 20, 1978.
       11.Ships's log for vessel "Miss Lisa," 25 Dec. 1976 - June 19, 1977 and Record,
          1978-79.
       12."The Miss Virgie," April 17, 1978.
       13."Pea Picker Notes - Schedule of Shrimpers"
       14.Character Profiles
       15."Mississippi Experience," etc.
       16.[Shrimper's Log?] fragmentary draft
       17.Commentaries
       18.Fish House, etc.
       19.Personal Names
       20.Place notes

Box 8: (flat box): [Shrimper's Log?] Typed, untitled manuscript, 417 ll.

        1.Shrimper's Log Outline (Computer Sheet Inventory) May 27, 1979.
        2.Typed ms. on computer sheet with sections numbered to correspond with Outline
          above, approximately 122 sheets.
        3."Aquarius " version [n.d.] Typed ms. of several chapters and outline of others

        1.Easy Money, Chapter Outline, Nov. 20, 1980
        2.Easy Money, Chapter Outline, Nov. 20, 1980, Revised March 16, 1981
        3.Official First draft of Easy Money (photocopy. Started around March, 1981.
          Second attempt began April 12, 1981. First draft completed: June 26, 1981. 2
          chapters, 53 pp., submitted to Viking Press, returned with marginal notes [re:
          Shrimpers Log] and letter Jan. 11, 1982.

          Typed manuscripts with many autograph corrections and annotations,  including
          some variant chapters, notes, etc.:

        4.Chapters 1-10
        5.Chapter 11-20
        6.Chapters 21-30

   1.Chapters 1-10
   2.Chapters 11-20
   3.Chapters 21-28
   4.Chapters 31-35

   1.Chapters 1-12
   2.Chapters 13-23
   3.Chapters 24-35
   4.Potluck I, draft 2, copy 2. Pat Irwin's [Viking Press editor] review copy in binder.
     Inserted in front are two pages of notes in different hands. The first [by Irwin?] is
     unsigned. The second is signed Merry Ann. Annotations and notes by Irwin(?) are
     throughout the manuscript.

A revised version in 27 chapters. The order of events has been changed. The hero's name has
been changed from George to Preston Barfield. A marginalia note says to change the ship's
name from Lady Anna to Lady Mary. Contents page dated 3/9/88.

   1.Table of Contents and Chapters 1-10
   2.Chapters 11-20
   3.Chapters 21-27
   4.Table of Contents, Feb. 17, 1988. 26 chapters

   1.Chapters 1-9
   2.Chapters 10-18
   3.Chapter 19-27

Critiques

   1.George Thurston's editorial notes and memos to Rudloe
   2.Cork Smith - Telephone conversation, Jan. 19, 1981
   3.Anne Rudloe's comments on "rough manuscript," April 13, 1980
   4."Reading of Draft 2," March 15, 1982 [in Anne Rudloe's hand?]
   5.Other critiques and suggested revisions - #1
   6.Other critiques and suggested revisions - #2
   7."Potluck Summary," and Outline, 2nd half of book
   8.Correspondence with publishers, 1988-1989
   9.Correspondence with agents, 1989-90, 1997

     Notes and Outlines:

  10.Analysis of Chapters to Date (Nov. 11, 1979) Marked as Canibus II outline. Shrimper's
     Log [not Potluck?]
  11.Blessing of the Fleet, Chapter 18, notes
  12.Chapter notes (Some relate to early versions, not included in the drafts)
  13.Character notes
  14.Coast Guard and the Lady Anna notes
  15.Columbia voyage notes
  16."Donnie Crum" and other notes
  17."Donnie Crum notes, spiral notebook
  18.Easy Money notes
  19.George and April notes and draft of scene between them
  20.James Mashburn Story
  21.Miscellaneous Notes and Fragments
  22.Notes, Jan 15, 1982 ("Why Citizens Report Dopers," etc.)
  23.Notes, mostly relating to drugs
  24.Outline and notes, chapters 2-29
  25."Panacea Panegyric," by E.M. McElderry [Partially relates to drug smuggling in Panacea]
  26."Sierra Club" notes
 
 

Prepared by Frank Orser, August 14, 2000
revised July 15, 2003