Contains draft files for the work "Summer Fire" and responses from students who read the work at Spanish Fork High school. Other materials include the version of the story geared toward non-LDS readeres, titled "Fire Season" and notes on publication. Includes letters from publishers to Thayer thanking him for sending copies of the work and describing publication, volumes of BYU Studies reprints containing a review of it, newspaper clippings lauding the work, Thayer’s own notes on the book, and various other correspondences communicating the responses to the book. Dated circa 1962-2003.