WILLIAM FAULKNER and META CARPENTER - EROTICA - LITERATURE - WHERE THE COLLECTIONS LAY

If you happen to be near New York City, or the University of Virginia or Ole Miss, you might get permission to see these collections for yourself.

NEW YORK TIMES - NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY EROTICA COLLECTION

EXCERPT: More recently, hundreds of works that make up the triple-star collection have been liberated from the restricted controls. An adult with a library card can simply fill out a request and peruse the material on the premises. (The library maintains a filter system to restrict access to erotic materials on the Internet.)

The library has highbrow erotica as well. Deep in the Berg rare book collection, for example, is a work that has never been publicly displayed: William Faulkner’s pencil drawings of him and Meta Carpenter Wilde, his mistress, having sex.

 

Ms. Wilde gave the drawings to the library on condition that they remain inaccessible until the death of Faulkner’s daughter, Jill Faulkner Summers, who died in 2008.

 

OLE MISS (UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI) Faulkner Collection

 

FAULKNER - VIRGINIA - Audio Collection Archives