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51. Add MS 88938/3/2

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Title:
Untitled Story (draft) set in Vermilion Sands
Scope & Content:
1. An unpublished draft story, in typescript with revisions, annotations and crossings-out in red (and blue) ball-point pen. The draft is without title or date. The narrator of the story accepts temporary employment as private secretary to an eccentric millionaire, Samuel Hardoon, who lives in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1958]
Extent:
1 file

52. Add MS 88938/3/3

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Title:
Four Text Collages [Project for a New Novel]
Scope & Content:
Four horizontal sheets (each 250 x 400mm, and each consisting of two sheets glued together at their vertical central edges). The sheets display, in a graphic style typical of text-based advertisements or display prose, various extracts of printed text cut and pasted onto backing sheets. The pas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1958]
Extent:
1 file

53. Add MS 88938/3/4

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Title:
The Drowned World
Scope & Content:
A partial draft text in carbon typescript, displaying some editorial corrections (not in Ballard's hand). The typescript comprises the following numbered sheets, beginning at Chapter 5: 108-110; 134-136; 147-151; 152-180 (Chapter 9 complete); 182-183; 185-194; 196-200; 201-209; 216-220; 251-252...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1961]
Extent:
1 file

54. Add MS 88938/3/5

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]
Scope & Content:
Two complete drafts in typescript (both considerably revised by hand), with additional draft material in typescript. The novel was first published in America in 1964 as The Burning World, and subsequently re-published in the United Kingdom in 1965 as The Drought, although neither title appears ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
5 files

55. Add MS 88938/3/5/1

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 1 (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Pages numbered [1]-26, without title and ending abruptly. The text corresponds to the beginning of the novel and appears to be the earliest draft. A clean typescript without revision.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

56. Add MS 88938/3/5/2

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 2 (assorted pages)
Scope & Content:
Assorted typescript pages in draft, exhibiting considerable revisions and additions by hand, often on both sides of the paper (and including, on the verso of p. 58, what appears to be a child's doodling). The pages are numbered as follows: 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

57. Add MS 88938/3/5/3

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 3 ('The Illuminated River': Part I)
Scope & Content:
Part I (here designated chapters 1-7) of a complete typescript entitled 'The Illuminated River', with corrections, additions and annotations by hand. The title at the head of the first page, 'The Illuminated River', was eventually given to the opening chapter of Part III (designated chapter 32 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

58. Add MS 88938/3/5/4

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 3 ('The Illumintated River': Parts II and III)
Scope & Content:
Parts II and III (here designated chapters 8-14) of a complete typescript entitled 'The Illuminated River', with corrections, additions and annotations by hand. Chapter 8 of this typescript corresponds to chapters 25-27 of The Drought. Chapter 9 of this typescript corresponds to chapters 28-29 o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

59. Add MS 88938/3/5/5

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 4
Scope & Content:
Complete draft typescript, without title. With corrections, additions and annotations by hand. The chapters have been typed continuously and match the chapter divisions of The Drought. The typescript pages are numbered 1-314.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

60. Add MS 88938/3/6

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Title:
The Crystal World
Scope & Content:
Two complete texts in carbon typescript (here designated 'Typescript 1' and 'Typescript 2'), both displaying corrections by hand. 'Typescript 1' bears the label of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency (New York). 'Typescript 2' relates to the edition published by Jonathan Cape (London). The carb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1965]-1966
Extent:
3 files