'As I lay dying', adapted for radio from 'A Rose for winter'. Two scripts, typewritten with autograph amendments, the other a typewritten copy, and in a folded inscribed 'TV treatment (not used)'.
'Laurie Lee's “A Rose for winter” (Andalusia revisited). An outline for a film for “The South Bank Show”, Autumn 1984'. With a name of the production company, Brook Productions, and an autograph note by the adapter, Russ Karel, on the title-page, and a letter from Karel to Melvyn Bragg. Typew...
Autograph drafts. There is one first draft of the opening chapters. There are also two full drafts of the text, which appears to have been written, except for the opening chapters, without consideration of the order of the chapters, and neither draft is arranged in the order decided upon for pub...
Papers for 'Cider with Rosie'. Lee's memoir of his early life in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire. Two autograph drafts and one typewritten draft, all with several reworkings of the text and further amendments, which continue through proof stages. With correspondence with publishers relating ...
Early draft in a Stationery Office notebook of chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 1 appears to be a revision of the draft below, while the four leaves of an unfinished chapter 2 were totally rewritten as two chapters; the drafts of later chapters can be prioritised by those with lower original chapter n...
Draft with, for the most part, each chapter given a letter. Contents: 1. 'Chapter 1. First light'. Incomplete. ff. 10. 2. 'Chap. 3. Village school'. Text headed 'Chapter 3? Chapter 2. School', with final chapter number 3 added later. ff. 27. 3. 'Chap. 6. Public death, private murder'. Folios...
Draft with, for the most part, each chapter given a letter, and continuous foliation given through the whole text. Lacking chapters 1, 8 and 13 as finally numbered. Contents: 1. 'Chap. 2. First names'. Later folios prefixed C. Text headed 'Chapter 2. First days, with final chapter numb...
Leaves and file covers from early typewritten drafts following on from the autograph drafts above. The first cover lists the chapters in the order of the first autograph draft, and assigns to the work the alternative titles 'West bank', 'Sundown' and 'The abandoned shade', and is annotated 'c...