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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/33
Title:: Will Self: Grey Area (corrected proofs)
Scope & Content:: (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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1994]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/38
Title:: Will Self: Great Apes (background research material)
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1965-1997
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/43
Title:: Will Self: Great Apes (revised chapters 1-3)
Scope & Content:: Photocopied word-processed text, revised by hand in pencil: Chapter 1, pp. 8-44. Corresponds to published chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 2, pp. 45-88. Corresponds to published chapter 3 and (commencing p. 62) chapter 6. Chapter 3, pp. 89-116 + unnumbered page + 117-39. Corresponds to published chapte...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1995-1996]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/50
Title:: Will Self: Great Apes (proof, Penguin UK)
Scope & Content:: (1). 29 Jan 1998. Letter from Penguin UK, enclosing revised cover copy for Great Apes. (2). Set of A4 proofs for Great Apes. Very few pencil markings.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1998
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/76
Title:: Will Self: Dorian (Chapter 1, revised draft)
Scope & Content:: Undated typed draft of Chapter 1. Word-processed (double-spaced) and revised by hand in pencil, pp. 1-32.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2001-2002]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/122
Title:: Will Self: The Butt (incomplete 1st draft)
Scope & Content:: Incomplete first draft, identified as such by Self (in pencil) on an unnumbered top sheet. The draft is typewritten and begins near the beginning of Chapter 5. Chapters numbered and text paginated as follows: Top sheet identifying text as '1st draft' (in pencil, author's hand). [Chapter 5], pp....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2006]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/132
Title:: Will Self: Liver ('Leberknödel', annotated draft)
Scope & Content:: (1). Draft text revised and annotated in pencil, pp. 1-25, 25-44 and 44-142. Typewritten except for word-processed pp. 4-8. In addition to Self's annotations, there are black ink annotations in another hand against Swiss-German language and Zurich details. (2). A copy letter from Self and respo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2007]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/168
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (1st/2nd draft, typewritten)
Scope & Content:: Typewritten draft (the top copy to the unmarked first draft carbons in Add MS 89203/2/4/165-7) which has been heavily corrected by hand in pencil throughout, pp. 1-255. The draft is identified as '1st/2nd Draft' by a yellow 'post-it' note in the author's hand. Thus the second draft component com...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2010-2011]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/169
Title:: Will Self: Umbrella (3rd/4th draft, word-processed)
Scope & Content:: Word-processed draft, pp. 1-250 supplemented by pp. 1-20. Revised throughout in pencil. A 'post-it' note in Self's hand identifies this revised text as '3rd/4th Draft'. There is one page lacking, p. [251], which is equivalent to published p. 367.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [2011-2012]
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89203/2/4/182
Title:: Will Self: Shark (unmarked Viking page proofs)
Scope & Content:: A complete set of page proofs (Viking, Penguin Books), dated 9 June 2014 at the foot of each page. The pages are unmarked.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2014
Extent:: 1 file

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