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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88919/8/23
Title:: The Light of Day: US Page Proofs (First Set)
Scope & Content:: First set of author's page proofs for American edition (Alfred A Knopf). Comprising top cover sheet and sheets designated/numbered: a, b, i-viii, and 1-326. With very occasional markings in pencil. Running heading at the head of each sheet indicates the proofs were supplied to Swift on 6 Novem...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2002
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88919/8/24
Title:: The Light of Day: US Page Proofs (Second Set)
Scope & Content:: Second set of author's page proofs for American edition (Alfred A Knopf). Comprising covering note to Swift, copy of internal Knopf memorandum (18 December 2002), and sheets designated/numbered: a, b, i-viii, and 1-326. With occasional corrections in pencil, and with yellow post-it slips left i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2002
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88919/8/25
Title:: The Light of Day: US Page Proofs (Third Set)
Scope & Content:: Third set of author's page proofs for American edition (Alfred A Knopf). Comprising covering note to Swift, one sheet of notes in pencil, and sheets designated/numbered: a, b, i-viii, and 1-326. With occasional corrections in pencil. Running heading at the head of each sheet indicates the proo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2003
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88919/12/14
Title:: Brief Text in French, for le nouvel Observateur
Scope & Content:: Photocopy (single sheet) of a brief piece by Swift in French, discussing in a light vein his writing routine. Published by le nouvel Observateur.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1994
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88919/11/7
Title:: Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: Extract from The Light of Day
Scope & Content:: Two sets of page proofs (one annotated in pencil) of an extract from The Light of Day that was to have appeared in Granta (see covering note to file from Swift). With two cards and a letter from Granta.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2002
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88919/10/14
Title:: Making an Elephant: 'Poems'
Scope & Content:: The introduction to the poems (in autograph and typescript drafts), together with the poems themselves in typescript, exhibiting a few revisions in pencil. Ordered differently to the published volume (see the draft list of contents) and with a small difference in selection.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2008?
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88919/5/13
Title:: Out of This World: Page Proofs (Viking) with Notes
Scope & Content:: 1. Set of page proofs (A4, two pages per sheet), with corrections in pencil. 2. Letter (21 September 1987) from Penguin Books to Swift, enclosing proofs. 3. Set of notes ( 4 sheets typescript, dated 5 October 1987): 'Additional Changes to Text, as Marked on Page Proofs of UK edition'. 4. Furt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1987
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88919/12/23
Title:: Text of Talk Given in Toronto Concerning The Light of Day
Scope & Content:: Tyepscript entitled 'Canada', a talk given in Toronto (May 2003) at the start of a North American tour to promote The Light of Day. The text is lightly 'annotated for delivery' (as noted in covering sheet supplied by the author).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2003
Extent:: 1 file

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