Notebook inscribed on the cover ‘VI. Ideas. Cat’s paw, That summer, Charades, Followers/The best woman, Martha/The right person’ and on the inside cover ‘Notebook VI. That summer in Illyria (2)… July 6 1976, Charades – version B, Followers/The best woman’.
Notebook inscribed on inside cover ‘The Wild island, Vol. III. Haiti, February 1977’. Contains draft of chapters 15-21 and revisions and queries of other chapters.
Notebook inscribed on the cover ‘Killaway, Venice, Woods, Swimming’ and on the spine ‘J.S. ideas 2’. Dated on inside cover 1 Feb 1984, with the contents list: ‘The girl who chose Venice, the man who walked into the woods, Swimming will be the death of you’.
Also typed leaf numbered 555 and unnumbered leaves from chapter 20, with a note from the author to her typist dated 12 Oct 1978, and typed leaves numbered 710, 711 from chapter 25: these were linked with a later draft, not in the collection, in which the leaves were numbered.
Chapters 9-14. The leaves of chapters 9, 13, 14 are lettered DE, the leaves of chapters 10, 12 are marked D on some leaves and DE on others, the leaves of chapter 11 are lettered D.