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231. Add MS 89203/2/4/63

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Title:
Will Self: How the Dead Live (various pages in draft)
Scope & Content:
Various word-processed pages in draft: (1). Rejected material (8 sheets) struck-through in pencil. Includes a quotation from Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet (perhaps considered as an epigraph). (2). 'Epilogue / April 1999' (pp. 1-15). Together with an epigraph from Warren Buffet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2000]
Extent:
1 file

232. Add MS 89203/2/4/64

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Title:
Will Self: How the Dead Live (author's notes)
Scope & Content:
Various notes made by Self, particularly outlines for Chapters 7-15. Many of the notes are written on the versos of discarded printed material which is of itself of interest (and helps with dating the notes). As well as draft passages from the novel, the discarded material includes a brief lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1999-2000]
Extent:
1 file

233. Add MS 89203/2/4/65

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Title:
Will Self: How the Dead Live (background research: photographs)
Scope & Content:
Two sets of postcard-sized photographs, together with an identifying note (not in Will Self's hand) indicating that the photographs are background research. The photographs are of urban settings in London. They comprise: 21 colour photographs. The subjects of some have been circled with a black ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1999]
Extent:
1 file

234. Add MS 89203/2/4/66

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Title:
Will Self: How the Dead Live (background research)
Scope & Content:
(1). A substantial amount of research material printed from internet sources, relating to the historical and cultural context of the novel. The wide range of topics include 'Diagnosing Cancer', celebrity deaths, kitchen design and equipment, cars in production, London house prices, the National ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1999-2000
Extent:
1 file

235. Add MS 89203/2/4/67

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Title:
Will Self: How the Dead Live (editorial comment)
Scope & Content:
(1). E-mails from several individuals (Penguin Books, Bloomsbury Publishing) providing editorial comment on the completed manuscript. Includes message from French translator Jean-Francois Kleiner (18 Jan 2001) with a number of specific translation questions, together with Self's reply. (2). A s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1999-2001
Extent:
1 file

236. Add MS 89203/2/4/68

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Title:
Will Self: How the Dead Live (scrapbook of 'post-it' notes)
Scope & Content:
Scrapbook used to gather together many 'post-it' notes generated during the composition of the novel. Includes three additional loose sheets with further notes attached.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1999-2000]
Extent:
1 file

237. Add MS 89203/2/4/69

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Title:
Will Self: Dorian (background research)
Scope & Content:
(1). 'Report on HIV for General W Self, VC'. Report collating information about HIV and its treatment, as well as information about relevant organisations and pressure groups. Authorship not indicated (pp. 1-59). (2) E-mail messages: Two messages from Nicholas Adams (29 May and 5 June 2002) for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2000-2002
Extent:
1 file

238. Add MS 89203/2/4/70

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Title:
Will Self: Dorian (author's notes)
Scope & Content:
Various autograph and word-processed notes (some with 'post-it' notes attached), including notes on cards, chapter outlines (13-18 and Epilogue), and 76 numbered apothegms (many but not all 'ticked' in pencil).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2001-2002
Extent:
1 file

239. Add MS 89203/2/4/71

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Title:
Will Self: Dorian (first draft, chapters 1-3)
Scope & Content:
Chapters 1-3 only, marked '1st Draft'. Word-processed, revised by hand in pencil (pp. 1-16, and 16-60).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 2000]
Extent:
1 file

240. Add MS 89203/2/4/72

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Title:
Will Self: Dorian (second draft, Parts One and Two)
Scope & Content:
Word-processed draft corresponding to Parts One and Two only of the novel. Corrected by hand in pencil, identified as '2nd draft', comprising: original wrap-around sheet for Part 1 (noting tentative title: 'Recording?'); Chapter 1, pp. 1-29; Chapter 2, pp. 30-42; Chapter 3, pp. 43-60; Chapter 4,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 2000]
Extent:
1 file