Will Self: Personal Correspondence (First name 'A')
Scope & Content:
Various communications signed only by first name and otherwise unidentified, including 'Alastair', 'Alice', 'Amanda', 'Angela', and a few other 'A' correspondents.
Word-processed draft without markings or annotations, all elements of the novel present (i.e. includes the 'Intermission'). Pages numbered 1-447. Also included, original card wallet-front bearing various autograph notes.
Complete word-processed draft, identified as 'Second Draft' on the original file front. Occasional annotations throughout not in Self's hand. The material comprises: Original buff file front ('Second Draft') listing word count for 'Prelude' and Chapters 1-16. Second draft, numbered pp. 1-214, al...
Complete word-processed draft identified as 'Third Draft' (in pencil) on the title-page, where the draft is dated '14.3.00 to 2.4.00'. Heavily annotated and revised throughout in pencil. Occasional additional editorial annotations in blue ink in another hand. Title-page, epigraph (from Preface ...
Will Self: Walking to Hollywood (complete word-processed draft)
Scope & Content:
Complete word-processed draft, pp. 1-209 (continuous double-sided printing). Dated 'W.W.S., London, 2009' on the final page. The text is unmarked by hand, but very occasionally individual words in the text have been grey-highlighted.
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. ...
Will Self: article on 'The Violence Initiative' (community project)
Scope & Content:
(1). Information about the community project 'The Violence Initiative: Creatively Challenging Violence in the Community' (260 Langham Road, London). (2). Printed e-mail message of thanks from Neil Watson, Director (8 Jun 2004). (3). 'Fight Club'. Cutting of article by Self about the project, Inde...
Will Self: Communications from an anonymous individual
Scope & Content:
A file of eccentric communications and annotated cuttings from an anonymous individual, posted to Self via the office of the Evening Standard, Sep-Nov 2003.