Complete working typescript, sheets numbered 2-311, with additional text sheets and un-numbered illustration-sheets inserted. There are many coloured tabs (left in situ) adhererd at top margins. This draft includes 'Fishing with David' (later excluded).
Complete draft, designated 'latest working draft' on cover sheet dated September 2007. Sheets numbered 1-348, with additional sheets inserted. The draft includes Index and 'Fishing with David' (the title of the latter is struck-through in the list of Contents).
A complete set of proofs (Picador) without markings. Also, a small set of selected pages (photocopied) showing markings and annotations in the copy. Dated 3 September 2008.
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: 'The Recreation Ground'
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Autograph draft and typescript. An annotation to the typescript title-sheet notes the story was written in 1974-75, and first published in London Magazine (Spring 1976). With additional cover sheet in Swift's hand identifying the story as his 'first published piece of fiction'.
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: 'Eight Early Stories'
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Eight stories, each as autograph manuscript and typescript, with the following titles: 'Drew'. Typescript dated 1976. Published in Stand (1977). 'Pomegranates'. Manuscript and typescript dated 1978. Published in Punch. 'Myopia'. Manuscript and typescript dated 1979. Published in Punch. 'The Cata...
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: 'After the Farm'
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Autograph manuscript. With covering note by Swift: 'MS of abandoned story/?beginning of novel, provisionally titled (?) "After the Farm" - 1977. (Set in rural Kent, involves eel and character called Dick).'
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: Extract from Ever After (Published in Granta)
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Page proofs, with annotations in pencil, of an extract from Ever After (chapters 2 and 6) published in Granta. With a letter to Swift (27 March, 1991) from Tim Adams, Deputy Editor, Granta, referring to the proofs, and with an information card written by Swift identifying the material.