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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/33
Title:: Will Self: Grey Area (corrected proofs)
Scope & Content:: (1) Typed fax (2 sheets, not dated) to Bloomsbury Publishing, sent from Hotel Eldorado Higienopolis, Sao Paolo, Brazil. 'Mary, here are the remainder of my changes/corrections to the proofs. I do hope that I'm in time for them to be incorporated. Sao Paolo is bigger than I am, so we've agreed no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1994]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/34
Title:: Will Self: The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (notes and initial drafts)
Scope & Content:: (1). Various early notes, including 'post-it' notes (4 sheets). (2). Typed passage in draft (2 sheets) corresponding to Great Apes (1997), pp. 54-5. Draft begins: 'A band of Balkan freebooters raided the club' [Sealink Club]. (3). Typed opening in draft (3pp. with carbon copies) (4). Word-pro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1995-1996]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/35
Title:: Will Self: The Sweet Smell of Psychosis ('2nd Draft')
Scope & Content:: Complete word-processed draft, revised by hand. The title page originally marked as '1st Draft' - this designation struck through and re-designated '2nd Draft'. 70 sheets: title page, pp. 1-68, and a second p. 68.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1995-1996]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/36
Title:: Will Self: The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (copy-edited draft)
Scope & Content:: (1). Complete word-processed draft (title page and pp. 1-68). (2). A copy-edited photocopy of the above draft (pp. 1-68), preceded by copy editor's notes (1 sheet), half-title and title pages, copyright page, and a photocopy of the first illustration by Martin Rowson.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1996]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/37
Title:: Will Self: The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (synopses and type-set proof)
Scope & Content:: (1). Two typed synopses (3 sheets and 2 sheets). (2). A single fax sheet (14 May 1996) from illustrator Martin Rowson to Self showing the character 'Bell', frontal view and in profile. Re-faxed to the publisher by Self with autograph message. (3). Publisher's type-set proof, some revisions in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1996
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/38
Title:: Will Self: Great Apes (background research material)
Scope & Content:: A file of various cuttings, articles and other material about apes. Among the items: a complete copy of National Geographic (December 1965, lacking front cover) which includes an article by Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, 'New Discoveries Among Africa's Chimpanzees' (pp. 802-31) in which a num...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1965-1997
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/39
Title:: Will Self: Great Apes (overview, chapter by chapter)
Scope & Content:: A detailed overview of the novel, chapter by chapter, as a set of rough autograph notes and also in a typed form. There are two copies of the typed overview, one of which was originally attached to Self's study wall as a continuous text held together by 'Blu-tack'. As well as various overview n...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1995-1997]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/40
Title:: Will Self: Great Apes (first draft, chapters 1-4)
Scope & Content:: Word-processed text, revised by hand in pencil: Chapter 1, pp. 1-36. Chapter 2, pp. 1-42. Chapter 3, pp. 1-30. Chapter 4, pp. 1-77. Also numbered pp. 140-214 (including two pp. numbered 192 and two pp. numbered 205).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1995-1996]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/41
Title:: Will Self: Great Apes (first draft, chapters 5-8)
Scope & Content:: Word-processed text, revised by hand in pencil: Chapter 5, pp. 1-29. Also numbered pp. 215-43.Chapter 6, pp. 1-52. Also numbered pp. 244-97.Chapter 7, pp. 1-33. Also numbered pp. 298-331.Chapter 8, pp. 1-31. Also numbered pp. 332-62.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1995-1996]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/42
Title:: Will Self: Great Apes (first draft, chapters 9-12)
Scope & Content:: Word-processed text, revised by hand in pencil: Chapter 9, pp. 1-38, 38-44. Also numbered pp. 363-99, 399-405. Chapter 10, pp. 1-49, 49-52. Also numbered pp. 406-54, 454-6, 456. Chapter 11, pp. 1-58. Also numbered pp. 457-83, 489-519. Chapter 12, pp. 1-65. Also numbered pp. 520-84.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1995-1996]
Extent:: 1 file

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