Super-Cannes material comprises: complete autograph manuscript; draft passges in typescript; an incomplete typescript (commencing in chapter 7); and some brief correspondence concerning 'editorial queries' and the text of the publisher's blurb.
Various examples of Ballard's occasional prose, as follows: A single typescript sheet (numbered 2). Discusses Michel Siffre's underground isolation experiment (1962) when he spent sixty days in the Scarasson Cavern. The sheet is the latter portion of a review of Siffre, Beyond Time (1964), publi...
1. Single sheet cutting (fragment) from Prospect (January 1998) concerning Lady Diana Spencer ('the canonisation of Diana painfully illustrates the decline of rational political feminism'). 2. Typed quotations from Robert O Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (2004) together with a set of related notes ...
Two files, as follows: A set of notes written in five spiral-bound notepads concerning a projected work (or works) of fiction. Notes (5 sheets), typed by Ballard, concerning a projected publication based upon conversations with his physician, Professor Jonathan Waxman. Together with a covering n...