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21. Add MS 88938/1/12/7

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Title:
Return to Shanghai
Scope & Content:
Various colour photographs (and negatives) showing: J G Ballard's boyhood home (31 Amherst Avenue, Shanghai); the remains of Lunghua Internment Camp; and other Shanghai locations. The photographs were occasioned by Ballard's return to Shanghai in 1991, filmed by the BBC as 'Shanghai Jim' (for '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1991]
Extent:
1 file

22. Add MS 88938/1/12/8

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Title:
Various Later Photographs of Ballard, and of His Back Garden at Shepperton
Scope & Content:
1. Twelve photographs (lettered on the verso A-L) of Ballard taken on different occasions (in black and white, and colour, in varying sizes). In one of the photographs, Ballard is standing in a drained swimming pool in Marbella (annotated on the verso). Other individuals in the photographs inclu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1980-c 2000
Extent:
1 file

23. Add MS 88938/1/12/9

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Title:
Professional Portraits of J G Ballard
Scope & Content:
1. John Foley (Studio Opale, Paris): sixteen black and white photographs (A1-A16, each approximately 240 x 175mm). The photographs were taken on two separate occasions: six prints (two duplicates: four different images) of photographs taken at Shepperton, four prints of which feature Ballard's c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1995]
Extent:
1 file

24. Add MS 88938/1/12/10

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Title:
Large Printed Photographs of World War II Bunkers (Normandy)
Scope & Content:
A set of 15 large black and white photographs, mostly of of World War II concrete bunkers in France (probably Normandy). The inclusion of shots of bombed buildings may indicate that the photographs were taken taken at a date earlier than their enlarged printing. Printed to professional standard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1980]
Extent:
1 file

25. Add MS 88938/1/12/11

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Title:
Photographs of J G Ballard's crashed car
Scope & Content:
A set of sixteen black and white photographs (labelled A-P) of Ballard's damaged Ford Zephyr 6 following a crash near Chiswick Bridge in early 1972. With accompanying negatives (six strips in total). Twelve of the photographs (labelled A-L) were used in a poster produced for the exhibition 'Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1972]
Extent:
1 file

26. Add MS 88938/1/13

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Title:
Honorary Doctor of Letters (De Montfort)
Scope & Content:
1. Original certificate, De Monfort University: 'The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters is conferred upon Mr J G Ballard on this 15th day of July Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Seven. 2. Colour photograph of four people in caps and gowns, one of which is Ballard. Dimensions: 125 x 190mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1997
Extent:
1 file

27. Add MS 88938/2

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Title:
J G Ballard: Correspondence
Scope & Content:
The Series is subdivided into three parts: letters received, letters sent, and correspondence with agents and publishers. Ballard did not retain his correspondence, and that which has occasionally survived (excepting a postcard from Martin Bax, 1971) is from 1986 onwards, much of which was cond...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944-2008
Extent:
17 files

28. Add MS 88938/2/1

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Title:
J G Ballard: Letters Received
Scope & Content:
Letters, postcards and faxes received by Ballard, arranged alphabetically (including original documents deriving from Lunghua Camp, Shanghai, received 1996-97).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944-2008
Extent:
10 files

29. Add MS 88938/2/1/1

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Title:
Letters Received: A-H
Scope & Content:
1. Martin Amis, autograph fax (1 November 1996): 'writing a piece about Crash, book + film, and wanted a couple of minutes to talk about the novel's reception in 1973'. 2. Martin [Bax], autograph postcard (franked Norfolk, Connecticut, 8 December 1971). Upper portion of message faded, referring...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1971-2008
Extent:
1 file

30. Add MS 88938/2/1/2

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Title:
Letters Received: Cadillac & Corvette Europe
Scope & Content:
1. Letter to Ballard (30 March 2000) from Cadillac & Corvette Europe confirming delivery date for BLS 2.8 V6 saloon. With terms and conditions, and an information pack about the vehicle including a CD of images. 2. Autograph letter (1 April 2006) from Ballard cancelling arrangements 'to tak...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2006
Extent:
1 file