Papers for 'A Moment of war'. An account of Lee's activities in the Spanish Civil War. Autograph and typewritten drafts, proof copies, correspondence relating to the text and drafts of scripts for a dramatised version.
Typewritten or word-processed drafts. Many leaves are drafted several times, with autograph amendments and then photocopied, with further autograph amendments, or re-typed incorporating the amendments, which are then subject to further amendment, copying and re-typing. Each of the volumes Add MS...
Autograph drafts. There are usually one or more substantially complete drafts of each chapter, interspersed with further revised and interpolated leaves interrupting and adding to the leaves numbered in pencil by Lee.
Correspondence relating to the text of the book. Correspondence and papers relating to the publication, reprinting of the whole work and extracts, broadcast and film versions and extracts are placed with correspondence of publishers, etc.
Page proofs, with art-work for the wrapper and illustrations. The print-out of the proofs is dated 24 May 1991, except for the title-page, which is dated 27 May 1991.
'A moment of war, by Michael Hirst, based upon the autobiographical novel by Laurie Lee. Revised first draft'. With the name of the film production company, Viva Films Limited, on the title-page. Word processed.
'A moment of war, by Michael Hirst, based on the novel by Laurie Lee. First draft screenplay'. Dated 30 June 1992. The word 'novel' has been crossed through in pencil. With a single leaf of comment from an unidentified reader. Typewritten.