Draft material — autograph manuscript, typescript and photocopies — for poetry by D. M. Thomas, including his translation of Russian verse by Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Polish, and Russian
D. M. Thomas: Biography, 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life'. Research material and typescripts.
Scope & Content:
Photocopies, correspondence, drafts, newspaper cuttings and notes relating to D. M. Thomas's biography of the Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life' (New York: St Martin's Press, 1998; London: Little, Brown, 1998).
Typescript drafts of writings by D. M. Thomas remaining unpublished or unperformed at the time of the collection's acquisition by the British Library in 2018.
Correspondence mainly sent to D. M. Thomas from various individuals and organisations: fellow authors, students, admirers of his work, participants in his writing courses, literary societies, festival organisers and publishing houses (including copies of contracts).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish
D. M. Thomas: 'The White Hotel', abandoned film adaptation
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, papers, draft screenplays and legal documents relating to plans to make a film adaptation of D. M. Thomas's novel 'The White Hotel', and to various related legal disputes.
D. M. Thomas: Born-digital material: Word-processed draft of 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Century in his Life'.
Scope & Content:
Born-digital files of D. M. Thomas: a word-processed draft of 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life'. These files were originally held on a floppy-disc in a folder with the material now forming sub-series Add MS 89363/4/19-21. The text in these files is showing a degree of corruption...