Typescript (1999), with author's cover-note identifying it as adapted from a previous essay published in The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored (Penguin, 1993).
Learning to Swim: 'Goldfish' (subsequently 'Chemistry')
Scope & Content:
1. Autograph manuscript of 'Goldfish', with note by Swift identifying the story as 'Chemistry'. [31 sheets] 2. Author's typescript entitled 'Goldfish', extensively revised in pencil. [19 sheets] 3. Author's tyescript entitled 'Goldfish', less extensively revised in pen and pencil. [19 sheets] ...
Last Orders: 'Previous Versions' of Eight Chapters
Scope & Content:
Eight chapters (typescript, with corrections in pencil) designated as 'previous versions'. With title sheet to file in Swift's hand. The chapters are numbered: A/CH1, A/CH3A, A/CH8, A/CH18, A/CH24, A/CH29, A/CH49A (with 1 sheet notes in pencil designated '49B'), A2/CH54. Footers to each sheet ...
Tomorrow: 'Latest Working Draft Prior to Final Copy'
Scope & Content:
Complete typescript draft, with revisions and annotations in pencil throughout. Sheets numbered 1-191. With two sheets numbered: 12, 13, 20, 26, 30, 31, 79, 80, and 173.
A brief text by Swift, describing the room in which he writes, for the series published in The Guardian. With a printed copy (b/w) of the photograph of Swift's desk that accompanied his text, and an identifying cover-sheet.
Complete typescript, marked 'Revised' on title-page, and with note designating text as 'Final copy for copy editor'. Text numbered 1-236, with corrections in black ink.
Together with three printed e-mail messages (December 2006) from Swift to Picador, a further set of author's proofs showing very occasional markings in pencil.
Draft text in autograph manuscript, specifically designated by chapter. Draft material for chapters: 2, 8, 27, 29, 32, 33/34, and draft passages marked 'Previous Plans'. Material in this file originally continuous with Add MS 88919/5/4 and Add MS 88919/5/5.