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The Tom Veitch Files

Yale’s Beinecke Library 1016 photographs

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Darksider, Ulic & The Jedi Chronicles

[circled: 57] [Some notes will always be re: the hidden side of things, including this project. F.I., the Project is the extroverted aspect of taking on a complex of psychic factors operating in myself + the population.] [So: What is the complex. What is its source, how does it function, what keeps it operative? What is the source of the binding power of the enthusiasm... How does the complex exploit the expectation of the psyche that "the good father" or messiah-hero will appear? (That's what Hitler fulfilled, in Germany.)] * The theme of Cruelty * Fatalistic mythology -- "but the end is a new beginning" * "primitive man believed that the recital of a myth, and the rites associated with it, gave them divine powers." "Within the tribe there was no one more significant than the myth-teller [margin: Norse, [uncertain: pXXXIX?]] [e.g. - "I am a myth-teller..." that is my unique [uncertain: area?] of the material.] [Altho I cannot boast of having told stories that [uncertain: grip?] the hearts of millions, - I know what myths are made of, and where they come from. I know the mechanism in the soul & mind by which myths are born.] [margin, cropped adjacent page: [illegible] [uncertain: 09?]]

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The Tom Veitch Files

On August 18, 2026, Praxis visited Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and photographed 1016 pages from the Tom Veitch papers. This collection brings those early drafts, unused stories, correspondence, and handwritten notes together for everyone to explore.

YCAL MSS 1368 · Boxes 3, 5, 42, 76, and 77

Box 3
Dark Empire and Tales of the Jedi correspondence, proposals, and annotated drafts.
Box 5
Lucasfilm approvals, contracts, Kevin J. Anderson correspondence, and audio adaptation material.
Box 42
Tales of the Jedi and Dark Lords of the Sith proposals, scripts, artwork, and proofs.
Box 76
Handwritten Star Wars drafts and the Log X notebook.
Box 77
Dark Empire, Dark Lords of the Sith, and Tales of the Jedi notebooks and plots.

The descriptions above follow Yale’s finding aid. These photographs are a selection from those boxes; individual images have not yet been assigned to exact boxes and folders. Image numbers follow photography order, with occasional gaps.

These are working papers: some ideas were approved, some changed, and some never reached publication. Most transcriptions are automatic; checked passages use the corrected text.

There’s plenty to explore. Have fun looking!

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