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201. Add MS 89142/1/16/1

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Add MS 89142/1/16/1
Title:
'Writers, Writers!', Picador Book of 40 contribution: Typescript and manuscript drafts - Non-fiction work
Scope & Content:
File contains successive complete and partial drafts of Swift's essay 'Writers, Writers!' for inclusion in the Picador Book of 40. Draft material is in typescript and manuscript, and there are 2 publishers proofs of the essay, one marked 'L', presumably for 'Latest', which contains very limite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2012]
Extent:
1 file

202. Add MS 89142/1/2/20

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Add MS 89142/1/2/20
Title:
Wish You Were Here: Typescript 'A', 'A2' and 'A3' revisions, with annotations
Scope & Content:
File contains: 1. Typescript of part of the novel, with pencil annotations and word-processed highlighting, and with supplementary manuscript content. File marked 're final chapter' by Swift. 2. Typescript of Chapter 1 of the novel from version 'A2', with pencil annotations and word-processed ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 2009]
Extent:
1 file

203. Add MS 89142/1/4/3

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Add MS 89142/1/4/3
Title:
Anne Collins, editor at Random House publishers (Canada): correspondence - Wish You Were Here (2012)
Scope & Content:
Printed email messages and conversation threads chiefly concerning editing of 'A6' and 'A7' drafts and the revised 'A5' draft. Anne Collins's suggestions are detailed in the email of 25 August 2010. There is also reference to the progress of Making an Elephant - specifically the possible additi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 2008-7 Jul 2011
Extent:
1 file

204. Add MS 89142/1/3/6

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Add MS 89142/1/3/6
Title:
Full publisher's proof - Wish You Were Here (2012)
Scope & Content:
Full proof provided by Picador publishers. The cover notes that the proof is from draft version 'A7'. Proof contains some word-processed emendations. File retains original file cover notes in Swift's hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2011-2012
Extent:
1 folder

205. Add MS 89142/1/16/11

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Add MS 89142/1/16/11
Title:
Essay 'On Story-Telling', published in The Agony and the Ego (Penguin 1993).
Scope & Content:
File contains material relating to Swift's contribution of an essay originally entitled 'On Story-Telling', published in The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored, edited by Clare Boylan, and published by Penguin in 1993. Specifically, the file comprises: 1 complete...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1993]
Extent:
1 file

206. Add MS 89142/1/3/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89142/1/3/7
Title:
Publisher's proofs, with Swift's annotations - Wish You Were Here (2012)
Scope & Content:
File contains: Individual and small sections of page proofs from Picador publishers. There are proofs of pages 1-2, 43, 118-9, 147, 148, 271, 225, 296 (there are two sheets addressing different passages on page 296), 298-302, 303-7 and 323-4. The pages are not annotated but do contain word-proce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010
Extent:
1 file

207. Add MS 89142/1/16/5

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Add MS 89142/1/16/5
Title:
'Waterland: Time and Structure', published in the English and Media Centre's emagazine (2010)
Scope & Content:
File contains a draft by Swift of a piece entitled: 'Waterland: Structure and Time', published in the English and Media Centre's emagazine. 2 pages from the issue of emagazine containing Swift's piece (runs from the bottom of page 7 to the middle of page 8).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2010]
Extent:

2 items

208. Add MS 89142/1/16/7

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Add MS 89142/1/16/7
Title:
Short piece about The Light of Day, Guardian Book Club (2006)
Scope & Content:
1 complete, three-page draft of the piece. The draft version is not indicated, but this is presumed to be a clean, final draft version, as it is without annotations.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2006
Extent:
3 sheets

209. Add MS 89142/1/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89142/1/3/2
Title:
Typescript 'A5' for publisher editing - Wish You Were Here (2012)
Scope & Content:
A full typescript of draft 'A5' used by Swift during editing with Anne Collins of Random House and Kate Harvey of Picador. Contains pencil annotations by Swift. File retains original file cover in Swift's hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010
Extent:
1 folder

210. Add MS 89142/1/16/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89142/1/16/2
Title:
'On Swiftness and Slowness', an essay on writing: draft material and correspondence
Scope & Content:
File contains material relating to the writing and publication of this essay, which was first offered by Swift to Random House in March 2012, and was subsequently offered to the New York Times Book Review: Typescript drafts of the essay, heavily annotated by Swift in pencilA small amount of manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2012]
Extent:
1 file

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