Cushing Library George RR Martin Collection (Spoilers Extended)
So, my wife and I will be driving through College Station tomorrow and thought it’d be cool to check out the George RR Martin collection at A&M’s Cushing Library. I’ll be trying to go through George’s early AGOT text (boxes 77/78 drafts 1993/1994 for those who are curious). I’m wanting to see if there’s notes or hints as to what else he may have had planned when ASOIF was just a trilogy, as some of what he had planned might happen in the last couple of unreleased books. Any thoughts? Or questions you want answered while I’m there? Or for those who’ve been, anything cool I should check out? Let me know
Update: So, I failed. I went in thinking I’d have at least an entire day to look through certain things, but things just didn’t work out and I only had 2 hours. I could only skim through AGOT and ACOK manuscripts. I pretty much only found things others have. Like many of the Stark children being younger in the first manuscript by a couple years for example. Nothing I found gave clues to how the books will end. I need to go back the completed ACOK but the first manuscripts there’s a Tyrion chapter where he’s talking about the Lannister history that I don’t remember reading before (I’ll check on that). But…I did get a clearer picture of the first map of Westeros, hope it helps. I will be going back to Cushing Library in the somewhat near future, so I will try to write down the questions many of you have and answer them individually. It was still a awesome experience and I highly encourage GRRM fans to take the pilgrimage! My wife and I got to play with a bunch of the ASOFI weapons, that was a blast as well. The curator, Jeremy Brett is amazing, super cool and helpful dude. We’re lucky to have a dude that cares that much about literature in charge of George’s collection. Below is the link to the Westeros map
Posted Oct 7, 2022, 3:57 AM UTC · edited