As a scholar, Polk had gained access to Faulkner's carbon
typescripts for the major works; these were, effectively, keystroke logs of the author's
original manuscripts, and Polk compared these with the published texts to return the prose to Faulkner's
original intentions (these are the «corrected text editions» published by Vintage).
This text was available only in a
typescript catalogue (pp. 14 — 15), as Stephenson's work, with that of two other artists, was added for the London showing, and does not appear in the
original printed catalogue of the touring exhibition.