Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

Mothers and Daughters:
15–16. “Cortes Island,”
Love:
117, 144, 140, 124. “Home”: 136. Joyce Wayne, “Huron County Blues”: 11. AM , August 22, 2001.
    22. Interview James Munro, July 9, 2002. AM , August 22, 2001.
    23. 38.12.15.1.f2. 38.11.6.f2–3. Interview James Munro, April 22, 2004. AM , April 23, 2004.
    24. “The Beggar Maid,” Who: 87. “Chaddeleys and Flemings 1. Connection,”
Moons:
17. “Miles City, Montana,”
Progress:
92.
    25. AM , August 22, 2002. Interview Robert Weaver, June 23, 2004. AM , April 23, 2004.
    26. “Cortes Island”: 124–25, 142. Interview James Munro, July 9, 2002. “About Ourselves,”
Mayfair
, November 1953.
    27. Struthers interview: 21, 20.
    28. Sheila Munro,
Lives:
21. AM , August 22, 2003, April 23, 2004. “Material,”
Something:
31, 36–41. “The Moons of Jupiter,”
Moons:
222–23.
    29. Ross,
Alice Munro:
53. Poem: 37.20.13.17.f1–2. “S. B.” [“Shoebox Babies”]: 38.11.4. “Miles City”: 396/87.3: 7.3.
    30. Sheila Munro,
Lives:
22. AM , June 20, 2003. Interview James Munro, July 9, 2002.
    31. Interview James Munro, July 9, 2002. “Material,”
Something:
35.
    32. “The Moons of Jupiter,”
Moons:
222. Interview Daphne Cue, April 19, 2004. AM , April 23, 2004. Sheila Munro,
Lives:
78.
    33. “Miles City, Montana,”
Progress:
88. “S. B.” [“Shoebox Babies”]: 38.11.4. AM , August 22, 2001. “Jakarta,”
Love:
99.
    34. “The Return of the Poet”: 37.16.5. “The Yellow Afternoon”: 37.16.34. Munro identified these stories as dating from summer 1951. Struthers interview: 21, 22.
    35. AM , April 23, 2003. “At the Other Place”: 131.
    36. “The Edge of Town”: 368, 371. Gardiner interview: 174. Ellipsis in original. “Pastime of a Saturday Night”: 37.1552.f1. Also 37.15.53. Unsigned stories: AM , August 5, 2004.
    37. RW to AM , January 24, 1956, RW to Robert Patchell, May 31, 1955: National Archives MG 31 D162. Interview Robert Weaver, June 17, 2004.
    38. Weaver to Patchell, May 31, 1955. RW to AM , January 24, 1956. National Archives MG 31 D162. “Chatelaine Centre,”
Chatelaine
, March 1956: 1.
    39. RW to AM , May 16, 1957: National Archives MG 31 D162.
    40. JM [Joyce Marshall], CBC Critique, “Thanks for the Ride” and “The Chesterfield Suite.” RW to Robert Patchell, May 31, 1955: National Archives MG 31 D162.
    41. RW to AM , January 24, 1956: National Archives MG 31 D162. “Thanks for the Ride”: 37.6.60 (earliest version, signed by Weaver); 37.6.61.1–2 (revision, also signed by Weaver); 37.6.62. AM , April 23, 2004. AM , August 22, 2001. “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 1. Connection,”
Moons:
6.
    42. AM to Mary McAlpine, October 14, 1980: Mary McAlpine Fonds, University of British Columbia.
    43. James King,
The Life of Margaret Laurence:
158. AM , June 20, 2003. Interview James Munro, July 9, 2002. Moira Farrow, “Housewife Finds Time to Write Short Stories.”
    44. “Funorama”: 38.11.5. Patrick, Rose’s husband in
Who
, is at one point referred to as “a man who wouldn’t let me hang up a ten-dollar Chagall print”: 37.11.14.14.f1. Munro remembered and described this print again at the beginning of “Soon.”
    45. AM , August 22, 2001. “Golden Apples”: 23.
    46. In the Alice Munro Fonds there are numerous versions of stories featuring Franklin, coming home from the war, getting off the train early. See, for example, a story called “The Boy Murderer,” or “The War Hero,” 37.16.28. Although the Fonds identify these as short stories, Munro has said “The Boy Murderer” was an attempted novel. AM , April 23, 2004. “Death of a White Fox”: 37.3.1.3, 37.3.6.3.f 18–19. See also 37.3.1–11. AM , April 23, 2004.
    47. RW to AM , March 28, 1958, December 8, 1958, December 12, 1958, December 17, 1958 (telegram), January 21, 1959. AM to RW , January 4, 1959: National Archives MG 31 D162. Original December 12, 1958: 37.2.8.3.
    48. “Funeral Friday for Mrs. Robert Laidlaw,”
Wingham Advance-Times
, February 18, 1959: 1. Interview Julie Cruikshank, April 29, 2004.
    49. AM , June 20, 2003. “The Peace of Utrecht,”
Dance:
209.
    50. Metcalf interview: 58. Struthers interview: 21.
    51. “Places at Home” [“The Peace of Utrecht”] 37.6.26.f3. “The Peace of Utrecht,”
Dance:
196, 201, 199, 195. “The Ottawa Valley,”
Something:
246.
    52. “The Peace of Utrecht”: 37.6.28.f1, 37.6.33.1–3. AM to RW , n.d. [1959], October 13, 1959, October 24, 1959, December 5, 1959: National Archives MG 31