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1. Add MS 88938/3/1

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Title:
The Violent Noon
Scope & Content:
'The Violent Noon', published in the University of Cambridge student newspaper Varsity as a winning entry in a Crime Story Competition. The file consists of a single sheet cutting from the publication. Alongside a photograph of Ballard, Varsity notes: 'J Graham Ballard who shares the first priz...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1951]
Extent:
1 file

2. Add MS 88938/3/2

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Title:
Untitled Story (draft) set in Vermilion Sands
Scope & Content:
1. An unpublished draft story, in typescript with revisions, annotations and crossings-out in red (and blue) ball-point pen. The draft is without title or date. The narrator of the story accepts temporary employment as private secretary to an eccentric millionaire, Samuel Hardoon, who lives in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1958]
Extent:
1 file

3. Add MS 88938/3/3

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Title:
Four Text Collages [Project for a New Novel]
Scope & Content:
Four horizontal sheets (each 250 x 400mm, and each consisting of two sheets glued together at their vertical central edges). The sheets display, in a graphic style typical of text-based advertisements or display prose, various extracts of printed text cut and pasted onto backing sheets. The pas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1958]
Extent:
1 file

4. Add MS 88938/3/4

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Title:
The Drowned World
Scope & Content:
A partial draft text in carbon typescript, displaying some editorial corrections (not in Ballard's hand). The typescript comprises the following numbered sheets, beginning at Chapter 5: 108-110; 134-136; 147-151; 152-180 (Chapter 9 complete); 182-183; 185-194; 196-200; 201-209; 216-220; 251-252...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1961]
Extent:
1 file

5. Add MS 88938/3/11

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Title:
The Ultimate City
Scope & Content:
Complete autograph manuscript, in black ink, with occasional text written on the versos. Appears to be a first or early draft. The sheets are numbered: 1-26; 26 (second sheet with this number)-79; 79A; 80-213.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1975]
Extent:
1 file

6. Add MS 88938/3/16

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Title:
War Fever
Scope & Content:
Twelve of the fourteen stories published as War Fever (London, 1990), together with a typed draft list of contents. The items in the file are in their original published form, as cuttings or photocopies. 1. A typed list of contents, entitled 'Short Story Collection'. The list has been typed on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1975-1989
Extent:
1 file

7. Add MS 88938/3/25

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Title:
Occasional Prose
Scope & Content:
Various examples of Ballard's occasional prose, as follows: A single typescript sheet (numbered 2). Discusses Michel Siffre's underground isolation experiment (1962) when he spent sixty days in the Scarasson Cavern. The sheet is the latter portion of a review of Siffre, Beyond Time (1964), publi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1965]-2007
Extent:
1 file

8. Add MS 88938/3/26

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Title:
Resource Material
Scope & Content:
1. Single sheet cutting (fragment) from Prospect (January 1998) concerning Lady Diana Spencer ('the canonisation of Diana painfully illustrates the decline of rational political feminism'). 2. Typed quotations from Robert O Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (2004) together with a set of related notes ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1998-2008
Extent:
1 file

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