Draft typewritten carbon copy manuscript of 'The Unfortunates'.
Scope & Content:
24 draft typewritten carbon copy sections of the novel and 3 loose pages. Three pages stapled together with title page and epigraph written in pencil. Work chart graph, showing progress of writing the novel. On inside cover of the folder are two pages showing word counts for each section.
First draft, autograph manuscript of 'Travelling People', notebook one of five.
Scope & Content:
Text in pencil and crossed out. With loose inserted title page signed 'BSJ'. Includes notes documenting word counts for chapters, pages and date it was typed. Pasted in the back page is a work chart showing Johnson's writing progress. Jan-Sep 1960.
Preliminary autograph notes and research for 'House Mother Normal'.
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Bundles of fragmentary autograph notes on scraps of paper, with ideas noted about structure and more generally about the novel as well as fragments of draft material. Autograph notes about the structure of the novel, notes on the elderly, notes for the printer, revision notes and draft fragments....
Final draft, typewritten manuscript of 'Travelling People' with autograph edits and deletions.
Scope & Content:
Final draft before typing up final copy [presumably to send to the agent]. Includes a list of alternative titles on the front page and notes on pages layout. Annotations are in pencil, purple and red ink. NB. This version has the (later) deleted chapter still.
Top copy manuscript, from which the book was set up with notes about font, formatting and other notes for the printers in blue, green, black and red ink.
All proofs initialled by Johnson. Large proof for book jacket in colour. Correspondence from Panther Books, including page proofs for the inside cover text and football report on bottom of box. 27 printed page proof sections of the novel. Galley proofs.