Title: Gulf - Novella
Written: March-June 1949    Pages: 297
 
Description:
File contains a 7 pages draft of an article titled “A Gaudy Notion” by Virginia Blish about RAH and “Gulf”. Draft of manuscript, 106 pages, with some hand-edits and black-out edits. Page 116 has a manuscript labeled “not entirely correct”. Page 221 has a synopsis. Intro to “Gulf” (not by RAH, for some later anthology—mentions “Friday”). Published story in Astounding.
 
Publication: 
Astounding SF November, December 1949 and collected into Assignment In Eternity (1953). Other Anthology appearances: A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels (ed. Damon Knight, Delacorte, 1964); Other Anthology appearances: Off The Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction of Robert Heinlein (ed. Andrew Wheeler; introductions by Greg Bear and Michael Cassutt: SFBC, October 2005).
 
Notes: Title supplied by a fan, Richard Hoen, and idea supplied by Virginia Heinlein.