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161. Add MS 88919/1/7

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Title:
The Sweet Shop Owner: Copied Typescript and Notes of Proof Corrections
Scope & Content:
Complete text, in photocopied format, incorporating copied amendments, and also exhibiting a few additional revisions to the copy in pencil. On the title-page (in pencil) are listed, by page number, corrections and alterations to page proofs. Also, several photocopied pages (from a different te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1976]
Extent:
1 file

162. Add MS 88919/11/6

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Title:
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: 'Our Nicky's Heart'
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript, author's typescript, and a set of page proofs from Granta, where the story was first published (1999). Also, a complete copy of the 'Review' section of The Sunday Telegraph (30 April, 2000), in which a revised version of the story appeared (p. 4).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1999-2000
Extent:
1 file

163. Add MS 88919/11/1

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Title:
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: 'The Recreation Ground'
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft and typescript. An annotation to the typescript title-sheet notes the story was written in 1974-75, and first published in London Magazine (Spring 1976). With additional cover sheet in Swift's hand identifying the story as his 'first published piece of fiction'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1974-1975
Extent:
1 file

164. Add MS 88919/11/2

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Title:
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: 'Eight Early Stories'
Scope & Content:
Eight stories, each as autograph manuscript and typescript, with the following titles: 'Drew'. Typescript dated 1976. Published in Stand (1977). 'Pomegranates'. Manuscript and typescript dated 1978. Published in Punch. 'Myopia'. Manuscript and typescript dated 1979. Published in Punch. 'The Cata...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976-1982
Extent:
1 file

165. Add MS 88919/11/3

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Title:
Uncollected Stories and Short Fiction: 'After the Farm'
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript. With covering note by Swift: 'MS of abandoned story/?beginning of novel, provisionally titled (?) "After the Farm" - 1977. (Set in rural Kent, involves eel and character called Dick).'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1977
Extent:
1 file

166. Add MS 88919/5/7

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Title:
Out of This World: Pages from Shorthand Notebook
Scope & Content:
A number of pages (detached) from a shorthand notebook containing various notes in ink and pencil.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1987]
Extent:
1 file

167. Add MS 88919/5/11

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Title:
Out of This World: 'Working Copy for Copy-Editing'
Scope & Content:
Bound copy (typescript), with markings in pencil throughout. Text numbered 1-187, including 163A.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1987]
Extent:
1 file

168. Add MS 88919/7/13

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Title:
Last Orders: 'Editing and Copy-Editing Notes and Notes for Proofs'
Scope & Content:
Various notes, including two letters (1995) from Swift to Macmillan concerning changes required (list provided) before going to proof stage. Also, a list of quotations from, and allusions to, song lyrics in the novel.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1995
Extent:
1 file

169. Add MS 88919/12/11

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Title:
'On Reading Aloud' (Cheltenham Festival of Literature)
Scope & Content:
Typescript and a photocopy of its publication in The Daily Telegraph [October 1991], together with a brief exchange (card and covering letter) between Swift and the newspaper. Also, a set of notes in Swift's hand (11 small sheets).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1991
Extent:
1 file

170. Add MS 88919/12/35

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Title:
Talk Prepared for the Cheltenham Literature Festival
Scope & Content:
Two typescript drafts of a talk delivered at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature (October 2008), addressing the question: 'Which writers have influenced you?' An annotation at the head of the second draft notes that the talk was adapted from an essay on Isaac Babel (collected in Making an Ele...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2008
Extent:
1 file

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