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341. Add MS 89203/2/4/161

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/161
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (background research, umbrellas)
Scope & Content:
Background information on umbrella manufacturing and design: (1). 'Umbrella-frame manufacturing in the Edwardian era' (2 sheets). (2). Umbrella and walking stick handles - designs and prices (7 x A3 photocopy sheets). (3). Geoffrey Ince, James Ince (Umbrellas): Two Centuries of an East London Fa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2003-[c 2010]
Extent:
1 file

342. Add MS 89203/2/4/162

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/162
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (background research, including Friern Barnet Hospital)
Scope & Content:
(1). Friern Barnet Hospital. Photocopied newspaper article (2 sheets, highlighted) on the closure of the hospital (Ham & High, 28 Aug 1992). Also, photocopied architect's floor plans (1982) for the building (10 sheets). (2). 'Colney Hatch and Friern Hospital: A Report for Will Self research a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1992-2010
Extent:
1 file

343. Add MS 89203/2/4/163

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/163
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (background research, various topics)
Scope & Content:
Background information on various topics: (1). Victorian and Edwardian advertisements (printed from the internet) for a water elevator (1905), household brushes (1901), bird cages (1910), typewriter (1900), and the cotton trade (1900). Also, a printed image of betting office interior (1909) and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010
Extent:
1 file

344. Add MS 89203/2/4/164

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/164
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (background research, newspapers and magazines)
Scope & Content:
Various newspapers and magazines kept together with the author's Umbrella research papers (although in most cases, save for the first two items, there is no apparent connection with the novel): (1). Complete copy of The Times newspaper for 28 June 1919, featuring on the front page 'The Full Text...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-2012
Extent:
1 file

345. Add MS 89203/2/4/165

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/165
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (1st draft, typescript pp. 1-50)
Scope & Content:
Carbons of typewritten first draft, pp. [1]-50. Unmarked save for a draft passage in pencil on the verso of p. [1]. The first page is an incomplete (sepia) photocopy of the draft as revised (lacking lines at the top and bottom of the page - the pencil draft on the verso of p. [1] supplies the m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2010]
Extent:
1 file

346. Add MS 89203/2/4/166

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/166
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (1st draft, typescript pp. 51-147)
Scope & Content:
Unmarked carbons, pp. 51-147. With three original identifying storage envelope fronts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2010]
Extent:
1 file

347. Add MS 89203/2/4/167

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/167
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (1st draft, typescript pp. 148-255)
Scope & Content:
Unmarked carbons, with identifying envelope-front in Self's hand: Envelope-front specifying material as first draft. Not all of pp. 148-255 draft were within the envelope (as Self's note indicates), some were loose. Pages grouped by author as follows: pp. 148-172. Lacks p. 159. pp. 173-188. pp. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2010]
Extent:
1 file

348. Add MS 89203/2/4/168

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/168
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (1st/2nd draft, typewritten)
Scope & Content:
Typewritten draft (the top copy to the unmarked first draft carbons in Add MS 89203/2/4/165-7) which has been heavily corrected by hand in pencil throughout, pp. 1-255. The draft is identified as '1st/2nd Draft' by a yellow 'post-it' note in the author's hand. Thus the second draft component com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2010-2011]
Extent:
1 file

349. Add MS 89203/2/4/169

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/169
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (3rd/4th draft, word-processed)
Scope & Content:
Word-processed draft, pp. 1-250 supplemented by pp. 1-20. Revised throughout in pencil. A 'post-it' note in Self's hand identifies this revised text as '3rd/4th Draft'. There is one page lacking, p. [251], which is equivalent to published p. 367.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2011-2012]
Extent:
1 file

350. Add MS 89203/2/4/170

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89203/2/4/170
Title:
Will Self: Umbrella (editorial comment)
Scope & Content:
Two typed editorial responses, one from 'Bill' (annotated with the names of twenty-three 'critics/supporters' - Booker Prize related?). Particular remarks on factual accuracy and on the consistency of stylised punctuation.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2012]
Extent:
1 file