Photocopies of handwritten notes, mainly ideas, sketches and drafts by D. M. Thomas for poems: 'Echo — Killarney: County Kerry'. With notes for the poetry collection 'Family Bible'. The contents of this file were originally held in a folder labelled 'Teignmouth Grammar School. Notebook begun ...
D. M. Thomas: 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life', research material
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Research material — handwritten notes, photocopies, press cuttings — for D. M. Thomas's biography 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life'. The contents of this sub-series were originally held in a folder labelled 'Sol. bio, research (2095...)' which also carried an older title, 'Jews et...
D. M. Thomas: Poetry notebooks (photocopied), '9' and '10'
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Photocopies of two notebooks, numbered '9' and '10' in D. M. Thomas's sequence, containing handwritten drafts and sketches of poems. The copies run back-to-back: book '10' has been copied page by page onto the versos of the copies of book '9'. The contents of this file were originally held in ...
Typescript drafts for D. M. Thomas's novel 'Sphinx', with autograph corrections. This sub-sub-series was originally contained in two envelopes, labelled (neither in Thomas's own hand) as follows: Envelope 1: '['C' circled; a tick, circled] Freedom (Sphinx) (numbered in red) — Numbered — No. of...
Typescript draft of D. M. Thomas's novel 'Lying Together' (1990). With some corrections by Thomas. The contents of this sub-sub-series were originally held in a folder labelled ''Lying Together' draft', and also bearing an older title, ''WH agreements' and 'Onegin (slightly shortened: final ver...
Drafts (autograph manuscript and annotated typescripts) of various poems by D. M. Thomas, many untitled, but including 'Hell-Fire Corner', 'Travelling Together', 'Flowers', 'A Mad Story', 'A Literary Fifteen', 'Sunday Morning at Tesco’s', and 'Creative Writing'. One draft uses the verso of a let...
Photocopies of a notebook containing D. M. Thomas's sketches and drafts of poems. With typescript of the poems 'History', 'Poem without a Period', 'Tree of Life' and 'Tourists', along with lists of rhymes. The contents of this file were originally held in a folder labelled 'III Teignmouth Gram...