'Not Counting the Savages' scheme, autograph drafts and notes for early incomplete novel
Scope & Content:
This material relates to an unfinished novel that Johnson began before he wrote Travelling People, ca. 1959. Section one contains planning notes for the novel and some fragment draft sections. Sections two - five contain some notes about the plotting for each section.
'London Consequences', a collaborative novel, edited by Margaret Drabble and B.S. Johnson.
Scope & Content:
Includes correspondence with contributers, schedule of of writers, notes about the finances of the project, proposal for publication and other related correspondence. Autograph and typewritten drafts of B.S. Johnson's contribution, first and last chapter written with Margaret Drabble. Notes conce...
Carbon copy manuscript with autograph revisions. Entitled 'The Pleasuretripper' altered to 'Trawl'. Some pages have been removed from the manuscript. Apparently sent as samples to various literary periodicals.