Waterland: Working Notes (1): 'Collected Brief Notes & Margin Notes'
Scope & Content:
A group of notes retained together under the heading 'Collected Brief Notes & Margin Notes & useful material extracted from old versions - esp. class scenes'. A series of 486 numbered brief notes. Originally a subset of a larger file entitled 'Working Notes etc' (Add MS 88919/4/9).
Ever After: 'Typescript with Corrections for Picador UK Edition'
Scope & Content:
Complete typescript with corrections in red, black and blue ink, and in pencil. Text numbered 1-236. The title sheet has two yellow 'post it' notes attached. With original file-front, and small file card, with file title.
First typescript draft, dated 9 September 2001 on final sheet. Sheets numbered 1-248, with revisions in pencil throughout (and some re-numbering in pencil). Including three sheets numbered 138 and a sheet of notes (pencil) following sheet 90.
Shuttlecock: Mixed Copies of Pages from Bound Proof
Scope & Content:
A photocopy of the Allen Lane proof, including its corrections (there appear to be no additional corrections). Some duplicate pages were originally stapled together (indicated now by brass paper clips) and in two instances bear Swift's name and address in pencil, suggesting they were separately...
1. First draft manuscript and rough notes for the story 'Learning to Swim', dated March 1977. [23 sheets] 2. Author's typescript, with some revisions in ink. [17 sheets] 3. Manuscript of an abandoned story later adapted for 'Learning to Swim' [8 sheets and identifying card]. 4. Title sheet, i...