1967-1975. The publisher's archive for Robert Stone's National Book Award-winning second novel, Dog Soldiers, which was published in 1974, seven years after his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, won the 1967 Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. This file begins in 1967 with Stone's 3-page outline of his second novel, here titled "The Dog Soldier." A typed letter signed from 1969 offers a progress update, stating that he hopes to have the manuscript completed in 1970, and he writes of his intervening work on a screenplay [for WUSA, the film based on a A Hall of Mirrors]. The next typed letter signed has Stone explaining why the IRS has contacted Houghton Mifflin with a lien against any funds due him, explaining that he has been withholding 25% of his taxes as "a small and conceivably futile gesture" to protest "our country's present overseas adventure" [in Vietnam]. A series of five typed notes signed from 1974 transmit a change of address, text corrections (not present), and delve into his use of the word "esthos." A letter transmits Stone's typewritten author bio, a short but revealing paragraph that includes Stone's having "participated in some of the events that led to the development of what has been called the Counter-Culture" -- meaning the Stanford writers' LSD parties at Ken Kesey's house, which predated the legendary cross-country bus trip that Kesey took with the Merry Pranksters in 1964; HMCo edited that out of the final copy calling the claim too "arch" and "ornate," thus helping to obscure the origins of that movement for several decades. The archive contains approximately 60 retained letters and internal memos covering the book's publication and publicity. Several of these indicate that advance galleys were sent to Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, David Halberstam and Frances Fitzgerald, among others. Kesey's response is recorded here: "Dog Soldiers has raised paranoia to new artistic heights." There are several press releases, as well as drafts and mock-ups of press releases, and a cache of about 20 published reviews of the book. There is also a publicity photo for A Hall of Mirrors, signed by Stone (with one of the earlier scheduled publication dates on it). The file ends with a copy of the typescript of Stone's National Book Award acceptance speech, prepared in advance and delivered in April 1975, as well as the correspondence around that speech: had he not won the award, no one would have seen it. A unique and extensive file of an award-winning novel by one of the major American writers of his era. The lot is fine. [#036734] $7,500