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1. Add MS 89363

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Title:
D. M. Thomas Archive
Scope & Content:
Papers, correspondence, drafts, typescripts and manuscripts of the writer Donald Michael Thomas (1935–2023). The archive spans his whole career, preserving writings published and unpublished, business and personal correspondence, and proofs or first-edition copies of his published works.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1900-2005
Extent:
244 folders; 34 boxes

2. Add MS 89363/5

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Other published work and productions
Scope & Content:
Typescripts and copies of miscellaneous published works by D. M. Thomas: radio adaptations, presentations and stage plays.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1969-2004
Extent:
5 folders

3. Add MS 89363/2

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Poetry and translations
Scope & Content:
Draft material — autograph manuscript, typescript and photocopies — for poetry by D. M. Thomas, including his translation of Russian verse by Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Polish, and Russian
Date Range:
early 1960s-2017
Extent:
61 folders

4. Add MS 89363/7

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Correspondence and contracts
Scope & Content:
Correspondence mainly sent to D. M. Thomas from various individuals and organisations: fellow authors, students, admirers of his work, participants in his writing courses, literary societies, festival organisers and publishing houses (including copies of contracts).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1965-2013
Extent:
25 folders

5. Add MS 89363/4

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Biography, 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life'. Research material and typescripts.
Scope & Content:
Photocopies, correspondence, drafts, newspaper cuttings and notes relating to D. M. Thomas's biography of the Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life' (New York: St Martin's Press, 1998; London: Little, Brown, 1998).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Russian
Date Range:
1900-2013
Extent:
49 folders

6. Add MS 89363/2/4-5

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Drafts of poetry
Scope & Content:
Drafts (autograph manuscript and annotated typescripts) of poetry by D. M. Thomas. The contents of this sub-series were originally held in a folder labelled 'loose poetry drafts'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Russian
Date Range:
mid 1990s-2012
Extent:
2 folders

7. Add MS 89363/7/3-4

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Correspondence with students, fans and others
Scope & Content:
General correspondence with admirers of D. M. Thomas's work: students, fans, participants in his writing courses, and so on. The contents of this sub-sub-series were originally held in a folder labelled 'More personal correspondence — letters from students, fans, etc. A mixed bag!'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Russian
Date Range:
1977-1998
Extent:
2 folders

8. Add MS 89363/5/2

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: 'With Great Pleasure', radio programme
Scope & Content:
Typescript of radio presentation 'With Great Pleasure: D. M. Thomas Presents His Personal Choice of Poetry with Diana Quick and Alan Howard', recorded at the Royal Seven Stars Hotel (Totnes, Devon), 21 September 1983 for broadcast on BBC Radio. With some related correspondence between Thomas an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1983-1989
Extent:
1 folder, 49 folios

9. Add MS 89363/2/4

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Individual poetry drafts
Scope & Content:
Drafts (autograph manuscript and annotated typescripts) of various poems by D. M. Thomas, many untitled, but including 'Hell-Fire Corner', 'Travelling Together', 'Flowers', 'A Mad Story', 'A Literary Fifteen', 'Sunday Morning at Tesco’s', and 'Creative Writing'. One draft uses the verso of a let...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Russian
Date Range:
mid 1990s-2012
Extent:
70 folios

10. Add MS 89363/4/1-2

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life', correspondence and requests for permission
Scope & Content:
Draft typescript material for and correspondence relating to D. M. Thomas's biography 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life'. The contents of this sub-series were originally held in a folder labelled 'Sharashka + Ekibastuz'. ' It also carried the circled number '15'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1997
Extent:
2 folders