The Day of Creation (Typescript 3, with Editor's Notes)
Scope & Content:
Editor's notes, and a third typescript, annotated in accordance with editor's notes, with very occasional small additional changes in Ballard's hand to the text.
Complete text, very largely autograph manuscript but including some elements (e.g. Chapter 1) that are revised typescript in format. The manuscript is here divided into ten files. Chapters do not always begin at the head of a new sheet of paper.
A typed list (three sheets) of 'editorial notes/queries' prepared by the publishing editor, and a complete typescript displaying the corrections suggested.
Complete draft text in autograph manuscript, in blue ink. The manuscript is here divided into ten files. Chapters do not always begin at the head of a new sheet of paper.
Complete autograph manuscript of Super-Cannes, here divided into 10 files. The manuscript is written in blue ink, with revisions in red, and with a number of smaller sheets interleaved.
An incomplete typescript, here divided into three files. The typescript has been revised with white correction fluid. It commences on sheet numbered 82 (in the midst of chapter 7) and is complete thereafter.
Autograph manuscript, here divided into 12 files. The manuscript is written in blue and in black ink, and was subsequently revised in red ink. With additional material written on the versos, and with small additional sheets occasionally inserted, one of which (numbered [968C] - a scrap of newsp...
Autograph manuscript, here divided into 13 files. The manuscript is written in blue and in black ink, and was subsequently revised in red ink. Numbered by the author. With some passages written on the versos, and with small additional sheets (also numbered) occasionally inserted.