Last Orders: Typescript Draft 'A3', Designated 'Penultimate Working Copy'
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1. Typescript draft (dated 31 May 1995 on final sheet 255) designated as 'A3' in the footer to each sheet, and identified as 'penultimate working copy' on the title page. Sheets numbered 1-255, with two sheets numbered: 10, 21, 27, 33, 41, 42, 46, 63, 64, 69, 83, 84, 87, 105, 106, 119, 152, 176,...
1. Typed list of pages replaced 18 January 2002, and a note of chapters checked. 2. Single sheet of autograph notes. 3. Three sets of replacement pages, sheets numbered: 17, 61, 76, 91, 104, 139-42, 144, 154, 156, 167, 222, 226, 230, 232, 243, 248, 252. The first set has revisions in pencil to...
The Light of Day: First Autograph Draft, Selected Chapters Marked 'Prev'
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With identifying personal slip by Swift designating material as '1st Draft MS - Prevs', draft material for the following chapters:1, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 28, 38 (two selections marked 38), 43, 44, 46, 47 (two selections marked 47), 55 (two selections marked 55), 57, and 62. Chapt...
Out of This World: Notes of Corrections to Typescript
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Five small sets of papers, comprising various correction notes (manuscript) and 'Final Corrections' (typescript). Includes a list of possible titles for the book, derived from the text (e.g. 'Looking for Trouble' or 'The Age of Air'), and a list of 'books to get / see'.
Last Orders: Typescript Draft 'A3', Designated 'My Latest Marked Working Copy'
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Typescript draft designated as 'A3' in the footer to each sheet, and identified as 'my latest marked working copy' on the front sheet, which also dates all corrections in red ink to 2 September 1995. Sheets numbered 1-255.
Typescript draft preceding draft 'A', dated 2 November 2001 on final sheet. Draft entitled 'Clear Light of Day'. Sheets numbered 1-251, with revisions in pencil throughout. There are two versions of Chapter 30 (sheets 119-21), and two sheets numbered 204, 217, 218 and 251.
Autograph manuscript and typescript text for a lecture delivered at a conference in Nice (Société des Anglicistes de L'Enseignement Supérieur), 17 May 1997. With a letter of thanks from the Président of the Société, Adolphe Haberer (29 June 1997), referring to subsequent publication in the Bulle...