Last Orders: Typescript Draft 'A3', Designated 'My Best Copy'
Scope & Content:
Typescript draft, with front sheet identifying text as 'My best copy'. Footer designation: 'A3'. Sheets numbered 1-255, corrections in pencil and red ink.
With title slip identifying the manuscript as 'Final (3rd Draft) MS', autograph manuscript in 64 chapters. Chapter numbers are indicated at top right of each sheet, chapters individually numbered. A few chapters incorporate typescript sheets. The final sheet is dated 11 June 2001.
Typescript entitled 'Microlight Flight Over Fens' (1987) together with the published article ('Flights of Fancy', Telegraph Sunday Magazine - 2 sheets) which includes a photograph of Swift sitting in a microlight.
Typescript draft annotated: 'as at 6/Jan/02 - i.e. not final(?)'. Title sheets and sheets 1-256, with a few markings in pencil. The draft is entitled 'The Clear Light of day' with the word 'Clear' bracketed in pencil.
The Light of Day: Copy Editing Typescript (Author's Proof)
Scope & Content:
Copy editing typescript (marked 'author's proof'): title sheet and sheets numbered 1-260, with corrections. Stiff card to base with two brief notes in pencil. Also, a compliment slip (Penguin Books) - related note to Swift (dated 22 July 2002).
1. Notes and autograph manuscript. [16 sheets] 2. Author's typescript, with revisions in pencil. [11 sheets, including title-page] 3. Author's typescript, with revisions in blue ink. [12 sheets, including title-page] 4. Photocopy of first publication in London Magazine (March 1978), with revi...
Waterland: Draft Passages (Autograph Manuscript) from Chapters 38-52, with material not designated
Scope & Content:
Various passages in draft, arranged according to chapter. Draft passages with the following chapter designations: 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 52, Beta, 'Extra Section', and passages without apparent designation. This file originally continuous with Add MS 88919/4/2, where draft ma...