Various extended passages and notes in autograph manuscript, sub-divided within the file according to original groupings. This file originally continuous with Add MS 88919/5/3 and Add MS 88919/5/5.
Various extended passages and notes in autograph manuscript, sub-divided within the file according to original groupings. Includes one chapter (entitled 'Helen') in typescript. This file originally continuous with Add MS 88919/5/3 and Add MS 88919/5/4.
Making an Elephant: Annotated Introduction to The Magic Wheel
Scope & Content:
Revised 'Introduction' to The Magic Wheel by David Profumo and Graham Swift (1985). Typescript with revisions marked in pencil, together with subsequent cover-sheet in Swift's hand noting that the text was eventually not included in Making an Elephant.
A brief statement (typescript, 1 sheet) on winning the Booker Prize, published in Booker 30: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Booker Prize for Fiction 1969-1998.
Article for Arts Council Writers' Awards Publication
Scope & Content:
Brief article (two sheets, 2001) discussing the benefit of receiving an Arts Council Bursary in 1982, together with a letter of thanks (6 April, 2001) from the Director of Literature, Arts Council.
Typescript draft identified as 'Working Copy A', entitled 'Clear Light of Day'. With title sheet and sheets numbered 1-254. Revisions in pencil and annotations in red and blue ink throughout. There are two sheets numbered 200.
Typescript draft identified as 'Working Copy B', entitled 'The Clear Light of Day' and dated 30 November 2001 in pencil on the final sheet. With title sheets and sheets numbered 1-254. Revisions in pencil throughout.
Typescript draft identified as 'Working Copy C', entitled 'The Clear Light of Day'. With title sheets and sheets numbered 1-256, with two sheets numbered: 16, 34, 44, 64, 123-5, 134, 135, 140, 153, 154, and 225. Revisions in pencil and ink throughout.
A letter (7 November, 1984) from Jan Kjaerstad (Editor, Vinduet) inviting Swift to contribute quarterly a 'Letter from England' to the Norwegian magazine. In typescript, fifteen Letters from England published in Vinduet, discussing various literary matters of the day. The contributions were sub...