Word-processed text, lettered A at the head of each leaf. With a few inserted leaves, including a typewritten author’s note, leaves of suggestions by Harold Pinter and manuscript amendments.
Notebook inscribed on the cover 'JS at the sunny grave', dated on the inside cover 30 Jul - 17 Aug 1987 and consisting entirely of drafts of 'Jemima Shore at the sunny grave'.
Notebook inscribed on the spine ’X’ and on the inside cover ‘Odd beginnings (J Shore/Kidnap & Rapunzel), January 19 1978, Death of an old dog February 1978, J Shore investigator (TV Times), The case of the Parr children, August 1978’.
Carbon copy of a typewritten draft of 'A Splash of red', incorporating the amendments made to the original draft A-1, designated B-2, with further manuscript amendments and those leaves with major amendments being retyped. Carbon copies of these retyped leaves are placed after the main draft.
Top copy of the typewritten draft of 'A Splash of red', incorporating the amendments made to the original draft A-1, designated B-2, and with amended versions of the retyped leaves, with the manuscript amendments on the carbon copies carried over and with further manuscript and typewritten amendm...
Revised word-processed draft, incorporating amendments made in draft B, with further manuscript amendments and the addition of keyed numbers indicating references. Lettered C at the head of each leaf. Without the list of principal characters, but with an author’s note and 10 manuscript leaves of ...
Chapters 1-5. The opening leaves of chapter 1 are word-processed and lettered A, although differing from the fuller word-processed text also lettered A..