Typewritten and autograph draft with edits for 'Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Autobiography?', 17 Aug 1966. Typewritten and autograph drafts with edits of 'These Count as Fictions', 16-19 May 1966. Typewritten draft with edits of 'Sheela-Na-Gig', undated [ca. 1964].
Typewritten copy of 'Bournemouth', a specimen chapter for a travel book, 1969. Typewritten copy 'So you like the title...', 2 Jul 1971- 12 Jul 1972. [later titled 'Everybody Knows Somebody Who's Dead'] Typewritten file copy 'Instructions for the Use of Women' or 'Here, You've been Done!', 16 Feb ...
Typewritten draft with edits for 'The Rook Rifle', 6-7 Mar 1959. Autograph draft in pencil of 'Paddy', 28 Sept 1959. Typewritten draft with edits of 'Elation, Gourds and Donkeys', for 20th Century, dated 12 Nov 1960. Typewritten draft with edits of 'Perhaps its These Hormones', sent to New States...
Article for Observer in four parts. Prose about children of junior school age seen through examples of their own work and the counterpoint of adult observation.
'Everybody Knows Someone Who's Dead', printed copy and related correspondence
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Correspondence regarding publication of 'Everybody Knows Someone Who's Dead', including draft blurb and cover page of the completed piece 12 Jul 1972. Dust jacket for publication. Copy of Everyone Knows Somebody Who's Dead booklet, 1973.
Copy of 'What Did You Say The Name Of The Place Was?' printed in Transatlantic Review 36, Summer 1970. Copy of 'Not Counting The Savages' printed Transatlantic Review, 1 May 1973. Copy of 'Words and thoughts of a teacher at work', extract from Albert Angelo.