Bainbridge Papers. Vol. xxiii. Notebook containing draft passages mostly of An Awfully Big Adventure; before 1989. Partly French. Comprises: notes on and passages from Adventure (ff. 2-3, 5-7, 10-13, 15-27); passages of Evening Standard articles (3-4, 8?, 14, 16). 220 x 165 mm.
Bainbridge Papers. Vol. xxxvii. Exercise book belonging to 'Les'; circa 1946. Comprises one journal entry containing reflections on his feelings for Bainbridge. The inside upper cover is annotated by Bainbridge, 'This was a man (23, 24) I met at the Young Communist meetings in Formby….I was 11. ...
Bainbridge Papers. Vol. xix (ff. ). 'According to Queenie'; 1999. Papers relating to the novel. 1. Plan of Hester Thrale's House, Streatham Park; 1999. Copy. Produced by Ethel Bromford (1932) after an 1822 plan by J and W Newton, Chancery Lane. 4 chains : 1 inch (approx. 1: 2376). 2.Draft foli...
Bainbridge Papers. Vol. lxxix. Article from the Sun concerning Bainbridge; 1967. Pasted into Alfred Crawley's Oath, Curse and Blessing (1934); the volume is inscribed, 'Austin Davies'. For a photograph of a group at Hastings, previously enclosed in Add. 83807, see Add. 83826. 170 x 110 mm. Au...
Bainbridge Papers. Vol. xxii. Notebook containing draft passages of An Awfully Big Adventure; before 1990. 220 x 165 mm. 1. ff. 1-6. An Awfully Big Adventure. 2. ff. 7-9. Passages describing a stay in France [possibly draft Evening Standard article]
Bainbridge Papers. Vol. xxxviii (ff. ). Cutting from The Times; circa 1995. Comprising a printed letter concerning a memorial to those killed in the Crimean War.
Bainbridge Papers. Vol. xlii (ff. ). Research file; before 1985. Partly copies. Comprises: trial proceedings and articles on Watson and his works; correspondence and notes; photograph of Huish Episcopi church, co. Som.; illustrations of, and report on, Stockwell Proprietary Grammar School (1864).
Bainbridge Papers. Vols. xl-xliv. 'Watson's Apology'; before 1985. Watson's Apology was first published in 1984, by Duckworth. For further material relating to the novel, see Add. 83827.
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John Selby Watson, cleric and scholar: Research files and notebooks of Beryl Bainbridge rel. to John Selby Watson: circa 1984: Partly copies.