Vault A35, Bond, Unit 1
Section of typescript from Truth to tell
(author's original title: Telling stories)
Not to be reproduced without permission from the Concord Free Public Library.
EXTENT: 1.75 linear feet (2 containers)
ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT: Organized in a single series, arranged chronologically in order of publication.
BIOGRAPHY: Author, children’s fiction. Nancy (Barbara) Bond was born in Bethesda, Maryland on 8 January 1945. A portion of her childhood was spent in England and the remainder in the Conantum neighborhood in Concord, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College in 1966 and a Dip. Lib. Wales from the College of Librarianship in Wales in 1972. She was the Director of the Heywood Library in Gardner, Massachusetts from 1974-1975. From 1979 to 2001 Nancy taught a writing course at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature. She works in a studio at the Emerson Umbrella in Concord and has worked at the Barrow Bookstore in Concord since 1980.
Nancy Bond’s work includes the following titles: A String in the Harp (Atheneum, 1976); The Best of Enemies (Atheneum, 1978); Country of Broken Stone (Atheneum, 1980);
The Voyage Begun (Atheneum, 1981); A Place To Come Back To (Atheneum, 1984); Another Shore (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1998; Macmillan); Truth To Tell (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1994; Macmillan); Love of Friends (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1997; Simon and Schuster.)
The String in the Harp was a 1976 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and a 1977 Newbery Honor Book. In 1976 it was also awarded the International Reading Association Award and the Welsh Arts Council’s Tir na n’og for the best English-language children’s book about Wales. The Voyage Begun was a 1982 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Includes typescripts and related materials for eight books by Concord author Nancy Bond. The following titles are included: A String in the Harp (published 1976); The Best of Enemies (published 1978); Country of Broken Stone (published 1980); The Voyage Begun (published 1981); A Place to Come Back To (published 1984); Another Shore (published 1988); Truth to Tell (published 1994); Love of Friends (photocopy) (published 1997). All typescripts (with the exception of Love of Friends photocopy typescript) include editor’s marks and comments. There are related draft materials for the following typescripts: A Place to Come Back To, Another Shore, and Love of Friends. There is a folder of editor’s questions and author’s answers for Love of Friends.
SOURCE OF ACQUISITION: Presented by Nancy Bond, June 2001.
NOTES/COMMENTS: Accession #AMC 067.
PROCESSED BY: C. Manoli-Skocay; finding aid processed 24 November 2001.
CONTAINER LIST
Box 1, Folder 1
A String in the Harp
(published 1976 by Margaret K.McElderry Books, Atheneum), Chapters 1-5.
Box 1, Folder 2
A String in the Harp
Chapters 6-12.
Box 1, Folder 3
A String in the Harp
Chapters 13-end.
Box 1, Folder 4
The Best of Enemies
(published 1978 by Margaret K. McElderry Books), Chapters 1-8.
Box 1, Folder 5
The Best of Enemies
Chapters 9-14.
Box 1, Folder 6
The Best of Enemies
Chapters 15-end.
Box 1, Folder 7
Country of Broken Stone
(published 1980 by Margaret K. McElderry Books), Chapters 1-8.
Box 1, Folder 8
Country of Broken Stone
Chapters 9-13.
Box 1, Folder 9
Country of Broken Stone
Chapters 14-end.
Box 1, Folder 10
The Voyage Begun
(published 1981 by Margaret K. McElderry Books, Atheneum), Chapters 1-7.
Box 1, Folder11
The Voyage Begun
Chapters 8-15.
Box 1, Folder 12
The Voyage Begun
Chapters 16-end.
Box 1, Folder 13
A Place To Come Back To
(published 1984 by Margaret K. McElderry, Atheneum), Draft Material, Chapters 1-13.
Box 1, Folder 14
A Place To Come Back To
Draft Material, Chapters 14-end.
Box 1, Folder 15
A Place To Come Back To
Chapters 1-10.
Box 1, Folder 16
A Place To Come Back To
Chapters 11-end.
Box 1, Folder 17
Another Shore
(published 1988 by Margaret K. McElderry Books), Draft Material, Chapters 1-6. (Chapter 7 missing).
Box 1, Folder 18
Another Shore
Draft Material, Chapters 8-16.
Box 1, Folder 19
Another Shore
Draft Material, Chapters 17-25.
Box 1, Folder 20
Another Shore
Draft Material, Chapters 26-end.
Box 1, Folder 21
Another Shore
Chapters 1-8.
Box 1, Folder 22
Another Shore
Chapters 9-16.
Box 1, Folder 23
Another Shore
Chapters 17-end.
Box 2, Folder 1
Truth to Tell
(published 1994 by Margaret K. McElderry Books), Chapters 1-13.
Box 2, Folder 2
Truth to Tell
Chapters 14-20.
Box 2, Folder 3
Truth to Tell
Chapters 21-end.
Box 2, Folder 4
Love of Friends
(published 1997 by Margaret K. McElderry Books), Draft Material, Chapters 1-8.
Box 2, Folder 5
Love of Friends
Draft Material, Chapters 9-end.
Box 2, Folder 6
Love of Friends
Editor’s Questions and Author’s Answers, various pages.
Box 2, Folder 7
Love of Friends
Typescript Photocopy, Chapters 1-9.
Box 2, Folder 8
Love of Friends
Typescript Photocopy, Chapters 9-end.
Finding Aid c2001 Concord Free Public Library.