Leaves and file covers from early typewritten drafts following on from the autograph drafts above. The first cover lists the chapters in the order of the first autograph draft, and assigns to the work the alternative titles 'West bank', 'Sundown' and 'The abandoned shade', and is annotated 'c...
Typewritten copies of the above, without the preliminaries, in a brown ring binder. The binder is inscribed 'M.S: “Cider with Rosie” … Carbon, 2nd draft typescript, not for publishing. The leaves are marked with amendments, although not with amendment slips, and remain in the original chapter ...
'A moment of war, by Michael Hirst, based on the novel by Laurie Lee. First draft screenplay'. Dated 30 June 1992. The word 'novel' has been crossed through in pencil. With a single leaf of comment from an unidentified reader. Typewritten.
'Carbon copies. Further revised text foliated from 1 to 261. The file is annotated 'No carbon of chap 1, 2', while there is no text of chapter 2, the file includes a typewritten copy of the text of chapter 1. A typewritten copy of chapter 2 is placed with this file, but it has a different fol...
A former school exercise book of Lee's containing notes on agriculture and the contents list of a proposed book of poems to be entitled 'Life & Guadalquivir' , which became the basis for The Sun my monument; [1942]. Autograph.