Archive Reference (shelfmark): Add MS 89203 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/161
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (background research, umbrellas)
Scope & Content:: Background information on umbrella manufacturing and design: (1). 'Umbrella-frame manufacturing in the Edwardian era' (2 sheets). (2). Umbrella and walking stick handles - designs and prices (7 x A3 photocopy sheets). (3). Geoffrey Ince, James Ince (Umbrellas): Two Centuries of an East London Fa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2003-[c 2010]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/162
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (background research, including Friern Barnet Hospital)
Scope & Content:: (1). Friern Barnet Hospital. Photocopied newspaper article (2 sheets, highlighted) on the closure of the hospital (Ham & High, 28 Aug 1992). Also, photocopied architect's floor plans (1982) for the building (10 sheets). (2). 'Colney Hatch and Friern Hospital: A Report for Will Self research a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1992-2010
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/163
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (background research, various topics)
Scope & Content:: Background information on various topics: (1). Victorian and Edwardian advertisements (printed from the internet) for a water elevator (1905), household brushes (1901), bird cages (1910), typewriter (1900), and the cotton trade (1900). Also, a printed image of betting office interior (1909) and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2010
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/164
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (background research, newspapers and magazines)
Scope & Content:: Various newspapers and magazines kept together with the author's Umbrella research papers (although in most cases, save for the first two items, there is no apparent connection with the novel): (1). Complete copy of The Times newspaper for 28 June 1919, featuring on the front page 'The Full Text...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1919-2012
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/165
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (1st draft, typescript pp. 1-50)
Scope & Content:: Carbons of typewritten first draft, pp. [1]-50. Unmarked save for a draft passage in pencil on the verso of p. [1]. The first page is an incomplete (sepia) photocopy of the draft as revised (lacking lines at the top and bottom of the page - the pencil draft on the verso of p. [1] supplies the m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2010]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/166
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (1st draft, typescript pp. 51-147)
Scope & Content:: Unmarked carbons, pp. 51-147. With three original identifying storage envelope fronts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2010]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/167
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (1st draft, typescript pp. 148-255)
Scope & Content:: Unmarked carbons, with identifying envelope-front in Self's hand: Envelope-front specifying material as first draft. Not all of pp. 148-255 draft were within the envelope (as Self's note indicates), some were loose. Pages grouped by author as follows: pp. 148-172. Lacks p. 159. pp. 173-188. pp. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2010]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/168
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (1st/2nd draft, typewritten)
Scope & Content:: Typewritten draft (the top copy to the unmarked first draft carbons in Add MS 89203/2/4/165-7) which has been heavily corrected by hand in pencil throughout, pp. 1-255. The draft is identified as '1st/2nd Draft' by a yellow 'post-it' note in the author's hand. Thus the second draft component com...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2010-2011]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/169
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (3rd/4th draft, word-processed)
Scope & Content:: Word-processed draft, pp. 1-250 supplemented by pp. 1-20. Revised throughout in pencil. A 'post-it' note in Self's hand identifies this revised text as '3rd/4th Draft'. There is one page lacking, p. [251], which is equivalent to published p. 367.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2011-2012]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/170
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (editorial comment)
Scope & Content:: Two typed editorial responses, one from 'Bill' (annotated with the names of twenty-three 'critics/supporters' - Booker Prize related?). Particular remarks on factual accuracy and on the consistency of stylised punctuation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2012]
Extent:: 1 file

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