Making an Elelphant: 'Santa's Clinic: Croydon, 1955'
Scope & Content:
Original typescript draft (1982), revised in pencil, with subsequent additional drafting in manuscript and typescript. Includes two sheets (one small) of notes in pencil referring both to 'Santa's Clinic' and to another essay from the same volume, 'Michel de Montaigne'.
Making an Elephant: ['Fishing with David: The Magic Wheel, 1986']
Scope & Content:
Revised passages (typescript) from the Introduction to Swift and David Profumo, The Magic Wheel: An Anthology of Fishing in Literature, intended initially to be included in Making an Elephant. For the full text, see the complete early draft of the volume: Add MS 88919/10/22.
Making an Elephant: 'Buying a Guitar with Ish: Nagasaki, 1954-60'
Scope & Content:
Largely autograph draft material in different versions (with three sheets in typescript), for the introduction to the conversation between Swift and Ishiguro.