Robert Aickman Literary Correspondence: 'Rejections'
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16 letters from various publishers to Aickman rejecting his works, including the fiction 'The Visiting Moon' and 'Black Christmas', a collection of nine strange stories.
Revised autograph manuscript (29 pages), and revised typescript (19 pages, with a few handwritten corrections) with carbon copy of The Waiting Room. The carbon copy bears the following handwritten annotation by Aickman 'Published in The Sketch', on the front page.
Revised autograph manuscript (48 pages), revised typescript with carbon copy (42 pages, with handwritten corrections by Aickman) and a later clean copy typescript (42 pages) of Bind Your Hair.
Material relating to The Inner Room, including: revised autograph manuscript (81 pages); revised typescript (50 pages each, with a few handwritten annotations by Aickman); printout (48 pages); film script (47 pages, in Ridley Scott Associates Folder); cover letter from Collins Publishers, sendin...
Robert Aickman Short Stories: 'Never Visit Venice'
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Revised autograph manuscript (56 pages), revised autograph manuscript of different version of the first 20 pages, revised typescript (35 pages, with a few handwritten corrections by Aickman) and clean copy typescript (45 pages) of Never Visit Venice.