A brief statement (typescript, 1 sheet) on winning the Booker Prize, published in Booker 30: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Booker Prize for Fiction 1969-1998.
Article for Arts Council Writers' Awards Publication
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Brief article (two sheets, 2001) discussing the benefit of receiving an Arts Council Bursary in 1982, together with a letter of thanks (6 April, 2001) from the Director of Literature, Arts Council.
Typescript draft identified as 'Working Copy A', entitled 'Clear Light of Day'. With title sheet and sheets numbered 1-254. Revisions in pencil and annotations in red and blue ink throughout. There are two sheets numbered 200.
Typescript draft identified as 'Working Copy B', entitled 'The Clear Light of Day' and dated 30 November 2001 in pencil on the final sheet. With title sheets and sheets numbered 1-254. Revisions in pencil throughout.
Typescript draft identified as 'Working Copy C', entitled 'The Clear Light of Day'. With title sheets and sheets numbered 1-256, with two sheets numbered: 16, 34, 44, 64, 123-5, 134, 135, 140, 153, 154, and 225. Revisions in pencil and ink throughout.
A letter (7 November, 1984) from Jan Kjaerstad (Editor, Vinduet) inviting Swift to contribute quarterly a 'Letter from England' to the Norwegian magazine. In typescript, fifteen Letters from England published in Vinduet, discussing various literary matters of the day. The contributions were sub...
The Sweet Shop Owner: Copied Typescript and Notes of Proof Corrections
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Complete text, in photocopied format, incorporating copied amendments, and also exhibiting a few additional revisions to the copy in pencil. On the title-page (in pencil) are listed, by page number, corrections and alterations to page proofs. Also, several photocopied pages (from a different te...
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: 'Our Nicky's Heart'
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Autograph manuscript, author's typescript, and a set of page proofs from Granta, where the story was first published (1999). Also, a complete copy of the 'Review' section of The Sunday Telegraph (30 April, 2000), in which a revised version of the story appeared (p. 4).
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...