Restrictions to Access

RESTRICTED: Photocopying of the Cormac McCarthy and Shelby Foote letters prohibited.

CLOSED: Some materials are closed until 1 January 2023 or the death of Cormac McCarthy.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Sepich Papers #4567-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from John Sepich of Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 1991, May 1992 (Acc. 92048), and June 1993 (Acc. 93107).

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• Foote, Shelby.
• Literature--Study and teaching--North Carolina.
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
• McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- Blood meridian, or, The Evening redness in the west.
• Sepich, John, 1951-
• Western stories.

• See also John Sepich papers in the Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University-San Marcos

John Emil Sepich is a writer and scholar of the novelist Cormac McCarthy. Writings include Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy (1999).

The collection includes the Master's thesis of John Sepich called "Notes on Blood Meridian" (223 pages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989), a commentary on Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West (1985) by Cormac McCarthy; a letter, undated, from McCarthy to Sepich briefly commenting on Sepich's thesis; and three short letters, 20 November 1990 and 1 March and 19 August 1991, from Shelby Foote, also about Sepich's commentary. There are also letters from others about Sepich's research and other materials.

• Closed materials (A-4567(z))