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Title:
The Papers of J. G. Ballard
Scope & Content:
The collection comprises, primarily, the successive drafts of J. G. Ballard's novels, in manuscript and in typescript, excepting The Wind from Nowhere (1962) and The Unlimited Dream Company (1979). It includes, for some novels, related notes and synoptic material, and also includes notes Ballard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931-2010
Extent:
226 files

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Title:
J G Ballard: Personal and Family Material (including Photographs)
Scope & Content:
Various items, including: Certificates of Birth, Baptism and Marriage; papers concerning Ballard's schooling in Shanghai and Cambridge; two passports; some family letters and cards; correspondence with 10 Downing Street concerning the award (declined) of CBE; certificate from De Montfort Universi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931-2006
Extent:
22 files

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Title:
Certificates of Birth, Baptism and Marriage
Scope & Content:
(1) Birth, James Graham Ballard, born 15 November 1930: 17 January 1931: Certified copy of Entry of Birth (Shanghai Consulate General); 11 December 1959: Certificate of Birth (with Scottish Life Assurance Co Ltd envelope); 16 June 1965: Certified copy of Entry of Birth (Somerset House). (2) Bapt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931-1965
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
J G Ballard: Schooling
Scope & Content:
(1) The Cathedral School for Boys (Henry Lester Endowment), Shanghai: 1938 and 1940: two Certificates for 'good work'; 17 May 1941: Sports Day programme (photocopy), with Ballard listed in two events (marked with red highlighter pen). (2) Lunghwa Academy: Report (photocopy) of James Ballard for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-1994
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
J G Ballard: Passports
Scope & Content:
Two British Passports, issued 1965 and 1989. With brown envelope addressed to Ballard at 36 Charlton Road, Shepperton.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965-1999
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Boy's Own Paper
Scope & Content:
A complete and unmarked copy of Boy's Own Paper (May 1937). Discussing his boyhood reading in Miracles of Life (p. 20), Ballard refers to 'the Chums and Boy's Own Paper annuals, aggressive compendiums of patriotic derring-do'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
The Lethbridge Herald (Alberta)
Scope & Content:
The front page of The Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta), Friday 13 August 1937 (without markings). Report includes an aerial photograph of Shanghai showing 'outstanding landmarks'. Main headline: 'Open Warfare Breaks Out in Shanghai. Jap Naval Guns and Chinese Batteries Go Into Action; Sc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Family Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Two letters, three postcards, and three greetings cards, as follows: (1) Two letters from [Helen] Mary [Ballard] to Margaret [sister of J G Ballard]: Thursday 2 April [1964], from Delfryn, Dyserth, North Wales. The letter includes references to several Ballard publications (he has a story 'in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1964]-2006
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Newspaper Cuttings Concerning Fractured Gas Pipe in the Ballard Home
Scope & Content:
Two newspaper cuttings (one from the Evening Standard) reporting an incident in the Ballard home: 'Three-year-old Jimmy Ballard and his sister, Fay, two, [were] taken to hospital unconscious after a disused gas pipe fractured in the nursery of their home at The Hermitage, Richmond, today [...] Mr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1959]
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
Box of Visiting Cards: The Drowned World
Scope & Content:
A small red box ('The Forest Series: Ivory Visiting Cards') containing 19 white cards which have printed on the recto: '"The Drowned World" By J G Ballard / Victor Gollancz'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1962]
Extent:
1 file