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241. Add MS 88938/3/24/2

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Title:
Miracles of Life: Complete Typescript (Part I)
Scope & Content:
Part I of a complete typescript, almost identical to the published text although some minor differences can be detected. White correction fluid used throughout, with very occasional editorial corrections by hand. Title page, Contents page, and sheets thereafter numbered: (i), 1-110. For Part I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2007]
Extent:
1 file

242. Add MS 88938/3/24/3

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Title:
Miracles of Life: Complete Typescript (Part II)
Scope & Content:
Part II of a complete typescript, almost identical to the published text although some minor differences can be detected. White correction fluid used throughout, with very occasional editorial corrections by hand. Numbered by the author: 111-229, 229 (repeated number), 230, 230a, 231-61. For P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[2007]
Extent:
1 file

243. Add MS 88938/3/24/4

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Title:
Miracles of Life: Editorial Communication
Scope & Content:
Two communications by fax from Harper Collins: 1. Fax dated 10 September 2007. 17 sheets reproducing various photographs published in the book, with identifying captions (although the images have not reproduced well by fax). The fax has been printed onto the versos of 'scrap paper' which includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2007
Extent:
1 file

244. Add MS 88938/3/25

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Title:
Occasional Prose
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1965]-2007
Extent:
1 file

245. Add MS 88938/3/26

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Title:
Resource Material
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1998-2008
Extent:
1 file

246. Add MS 88938/3/27

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Title:
Working Notes for Projected Writing
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 2005 -2008
Extent:
2 files

247. Add MS 88938/3/27/1

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Title:
Five Spiral-Bound Notepads
Scope & Content:
1. Five spiral-bound notepads containing, for the most part, notes for a projected novel concerning a world war referred to as 'WVA' [World Versus America]: 'A backstory would describe the US imperial reach & attacks on other countries - its threats, use of force etc. The events that have br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 2005
Extent:
1 file

248. Add MS 88938/3/27/2

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Title:
Notes on Conversations with Professor Jonathan Waxman
Scope & Content:
Notes (5 sheets) typed by Ballard relating to conversations with his physician, Professor Jonathan Waxman. The outline notes, divided into 11 'sessions', are a synopsis for a projected publication. The conversations began in November 2008. Together with related notes (1 sheet) made by Fay Balla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2008
Extent:
1 file

249. Add MS 88938/4

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Title:
J G Ballard: Interviews Conducted by Fax
Scope & Content:
The texts of twenty-nine short interviews, each conducted remotely by fax. Most interviews comprise approximately 6-12 questions, each of which is answered by a short paragraph. Arranged chronologically, including a file of undated material.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1997-2007
Extent:
5 files

250. Add MS 88938/4/1

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Title:
J. G. Ballard: Interviews by Fax 1997-2000
Scope & Content:
Four interviews: 1. 7 November 1997. Twenty answers from Ballard (questions not included), faxed to 'Hercules' at 'Apopeira Editions'. 2 sheets, second sheet annotated and signed. 2. 12 September 1998. Six answers from Ballard (1 sheet, signed), together with fax communications from Mark Boal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1997-2000
Extent:
1 file