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41. 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

42. 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 An unpublished draft story, in typescript with revisions, annotations and crossings-out in red (and blue) ball-point pen.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

43. 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

44. 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

45. Add MS 88938/3/5/1

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 1 (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Pages numbered [1]-26, without title and ending abruptly. The text corresponds to the beginning of the novel and appears to be the earliest draft. A clean typescript without revision.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

46. Add MS 88938/3/5/2

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 2 (assorted pages)
Scope & Content:
Assorted typescript pages in draft, exhibiting considerable revisions and additions by hand, often on both sides of the paper (and including, on the verso of p. 58, what appears to be a child's doodling). The pages are numbered as follows: 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

47. Add MS 88938/3/5/3

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 3 ('The Illuminated River': Part I)
Scope & Content:
Part I (here designated chapters 1-7) of a complete typescript entitled 'The Illuminated River', with corrections, additions and annotations by hand. The title at the head of the first page, 'The Illuminated River', was eventually given to the opening chapter of Part III (designated chapter 32 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

48. Add MS 88938/3/5/4

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 3 ('The Illumintated River': Parts II and III)
Scope & Content:
Parts II and III (here designated chapters 8-14) of a complete typescript entitled 'The Illuminated River', with corrections, additions and annotations by hand. Chapter 8 of this typescript corresponds to chapters 25-27 of The Drought. Chapter 9 of this typescript corresponds to chapters 28-29 o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

49. Add MS 88938/3/5/5

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Title:
The Burning World [The Drought]: Typescript 4
Scope & Content:
Complete draft typescript, without title. With corrections, additions and annotations by hand. The chapters have been typed continuously and match the chapter divisions of The Drought. The typescript pages are numbered 1-314.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1963]
Extent:
1 file

50. Add MS 88938/3/6/1

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Title:
The Crystal World: Typescript 1
Scope & Content:
A complete carbon typescript, with a label of the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc, New York, adhered to the title-page. The text comprises a title-page, Contents page, and pages numbered 1-283. With very occasional revisions by hand throughout. Pages 226-54 are photocopied pages (copied fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1965]
Extent:
1 file

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