Manhood Papers. Vol.. ii-iv. Business correspondence; 1928-1971. Includes some correspondence direct between Manhood and publishers when transactions began with Manhood’s agents, and some social correspondence. Three volumes.
Manhood Papers. Vols.xvi-xxiii. Proof copies of Manhood’s novel and volumes of short stories; 1928-1953. Printed with autograph corrections. Eight volumes.
Manhood Papers. Vols. xxiv-xxxii. Papers relating to short stories written by Manhood for a number of periodicals and newspapers; 1933-1941. The papers are inserted into nine large folders, with a list of the titles of the stories on the covers. Within each folder the papers for each article are in a smaller folder on the front cover of which Manhood has written the title, date finished, number of words, publishers offered to and rejected by, dates of publication and broadcasting (often...
Manhood Papers. Vols..xxxiii-xliii. Papers relating to short stories written by Manhood for a number of periodicals and newspapers; 1940-1964. The papers for each of the 94 articles are in a folder, the contents and arrangement of which are similar to that of the smaller folders described under 83284-83292 above. Correspondence in these files generally ceases from 1953, when Manhood employed a literary agent, see 83263 and 83264 above. There are no stories dated 1957, 1958 or 1959. Elev...
Manhood Papers. Vols. xlv a-j. Notebooks containing the autograph draft of an unfinished and unpublished novel, ‘The bald woman’; 1938. Ten notebooks. 203 x 163mm. The final notebook is a fragment, probably of notes towards this novel.
Manhood Papers. Vols..xlvi-li. Bound volumes of autograph notes for stories, and accounts; 1935-1964. Includes cuttings taken from newspapers of items which Manhood considered might form the basis for stories. Six volumes. 208 x 162mm.