Will Self: Personal Correspondence (Self family members)
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Communications from Self family members (excluding father Peter Self - see separate files): (1). Alexis and Madeleine Self (children). Various postcards and greetings cards (1994-2003) from children Alexis and Madeleine Self. Includes a card to Joanathan Self. (2). Lady Rosalind Audrey Self (g...
Will Self: Walking to Hollywood ('Very Little', earliest draft)
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Undated typewritten draft, annotated in pencil: (1). 'Sherman Oaks', pp. 1-10. (2). 'Round the Horn', pp. 11-21. (3). 'The Reichmanns' (title revised in pencil to 'Fin du trottoir roulant'), pp. 22-39. (4). 'There is Hope - Make the Call', pp. 40-44, 44-51. There are two pp. 44 (same text, diffe...
Will Self: Walking to Hollywood ('Spurn Head', earliest draft)
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Undated typewritten draft, annotated in pencil: (1). 'Spurn Head', pp. 1-27. Corresponds to published chapter 'Daycare' (draft pp. 1-18) and to part of the succeeding chapter 'Static Homes' (draft pp. 18-27). (2).Untitled chapter, pp. 19-36. Corresponds to published chapter 'Static Homes'. A dif...
Will Self Family Papers: Peter Self, correspondence with Huber Self
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Correspondence with Huber Self (Geography Professor Emeritus, Kansas State University) regarding Self families in the U.S.A. The file includes the publication Growing Up in Indian Territory by Huber Self and Melvin Self (revised edn, 1987). Under the heading 'Self Members with Distinguished Acco...
Will Self: Personal Correspondence (Various letters received in Australia)
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(1). Correspondents Bertin - Taylor: Imogen Bertin. Autograph note from Self to Bertin with envelope (London postmark 12 Sep 1983, i.e shortly before Self departed for Australia). The envelope has been annotated by Bertin in reply on the verso. (Letter kept by Self with letters received in Austr...
Will Self: 'Cock: A Novelette' (revised typescript)
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(1). Incomplete typescript draft (word-processed), revised by hand: pp. 1, 8-35, 44, 47-76, 80-5, 87-125. (2). Additional pages, word-processed and revised by hand: pp. 117-23, and two unnumbered pages. (3). Editorial comment, typed (5 sheets), largely about 'Cock' ('very little needs altering' i...
(1) Typed fax (2 sheets, not dated) to Bloomsbury Publishing, sent from Hotel Eldorado Higienopolis, Sao Paolo, Brazil. 'Mary, here are the remainder of my changes/corrections to the proofs. I do hope that I'm in time for them to be incorporated. Sao Paolo is bigger than I am, so we've agreed no...
Will Self: Great Apes (background research material)
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A file of various cuttings, articles and other material about apes. Among the items: a complete copy of National Geographic (December 1965, lacking front cover) which includes an article by Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, 'New Discoveries Among Africa's Chimpanzees' (pp. 802-31) in which a num...