Two notebooks with early draft notes for 'Konek Landing'
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Two notebooks containing autograph draft notes for 'Konek Landing'. Ring bound notebook with sections of drafts for the novel. (A) Ringbound notebook with a a section of draft text and essays on novels, writers and politics. (B)
Note book with autograph drafts and notes for 'Bluebeard the Creator'
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Ring bound notebook titled 'Bluebeard / Bluebeard the Creator / Bluebeard 1', dated 10th Nov 1968 [11 Aug 1967 is crossed out]. Contains notes about the plotting and themes of the novel and some early draft notes.
Typescript drafts of the first chapter for 'Bluebeard the Creator'
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Several typescript drafts of different versions of the beginning of the novel, titled ‘Bluebeard the Creator’. In draft versions Figes experimented with the idea of opening the novel with an exploration of the process of writing.
First draft typescript for 'The Tree of Knowledge'
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First draft typescript with various autograph revisions in pencil and pen ink, reflecting different stages of revision (the first stage of revisions is captured in Add MS 89050/1/79 which is a copy of this script, however this script has further layers of revisions dating from after the copy was...