Notebooks of Malcolm Lowry: 'So we live forever taking leave'
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Autograph manuscript notebook, in ink and pencil, titled 'So we live forever taking leave'. Contains drafts for 'Zodiac', 'Bulls of the resurrection', 'I remember her', 'The tramps', and 'Metal'. Images of 'By-products [of coal-gasification] and how we waste them' inserted inside front cover.
Notebooks of Malcolm Lowry: 'In ballast to the White Sea'
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Autograph manuscript notebook, in ink and pencil, titled 'In ballast to the white sea'. Contains draft chapter headed 'iii', followed by chapters headed 'i', 'ii' and 'iii'. Newspaper cuttings, manuscript notes and a leaflet for books of John Strachey inserted.
Notebooks of Malcolm Lowry: 'Delirium on the East River'
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Autograph manuscript notebook, in pencil. Contains a draft of 'Delirium on the East River', later published as 'Lunar caustic'. Loose manuscript pages inserted.
Drafts of Malcolm Lowry: 'In ballast to the White Sea'. M1
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Autograph manuscript synopsis and notes; and typescript drafts and fragments of opening of novel, chapter XII, and chapters II and III. With manuscript annotations in pencil.
Drafts of Malcolm Lowry: 'In ballast to the White Sea'. M2 - M6
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M2: Autograph manuscript draft fragment, in ink, beginning 'In Wales they bleed you…'. Opening of chapter XI on final page. M3: Autograph manuscript draft fragments, in ink. M4: Autograph manuscript and typescript draft, in ink with pencil annotations. Headed 'Pierre', and beginning 'falling,...
Drafts of Malcolm Lowry: 'In ballast to the White Sea'. M7 - M12
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M7: Typescript drafts of chapter titled 'The new Christopher'. With pencil annotations. M8: Autograph manuscript and typescript draft fragments, including drafts of the ending; notes on 'Francis Bacon and dialectical materialism'; and typescript chapter outlines. M9: Typescript chapter beginni...
Drafts of Malcolm Lowry: 'In ballast to the White Sea'. M13 - M15
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M13: Photocopy of a typescript of chapter III (see typescript in M1, Add MS 89373/2/1). M14: Typescript of chapter V, with some manuscript annotations in ink and pencil. Pages numbered 74-106. M15: Typescript of chapter VI. Pages numbered 109-118.
Drafts of Malcolm Lowry: 'In ballast to the White Sea'. M16 - M19
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M16: Typescript of end of chapter VI and portion of chapter VII. Pages numbered 119-124 and 126-161. M17: Typescript of end of chapter VII. Pages numbered 162-189. M18: Typescript of chapter VIII. Pages numbered 191-209. M19: Typescript of chapter IX. Pages numbered 211-219.
Drafts of Malcolm Lowry: 'In ballast to the White Sea'. 1 - 4
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1: Manuscript and typescript notes and fragmentary drafts, in ink and pencil, some titled 'Leaving Preston'. Includes photocopies of typescript draft with page number 6. 2: Manuscript and typescript fragmentary drafts, in ink and pencil. Some pages numbered, mostly out of sequence. Includes be...
Drafts of Malcolm Lowry: 'In ballast to the White Sea'. 5 - 9
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5: Autograph manuscript notes and fragments, including chapter outlines for chapters VIII - XII; draft of the opening of chapter XII; and a draft fragment titled 'The train'. 6: Typescript and manuscript draft outline for chapter XIII, and a portion of chapter XII. Also includes a manuscript no...