Carbon copy manuscript with autograph revisions. Entitled 'The Pleasuretripper' altered to 'Trawl'. Some pages have been removed from the manuscript. Apparently sent as samples to various literary periodicals.
Oversized secondary research and publicity material for 'Trawl'.
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Grimsby Evening Telegraph Tuesday, November 5, 1965. (oversize) 'Supplement on Humberside', The Times, Monday April 26 1965. (oversize) The Sunday Times Magazine, May 2 1965, '1940: The Civilian War Reliving 1940' (oversize) Four loose cuttings on the Second World War and 1940, 15pp. (oversize) A...
Report to the British Council on visit to Hungary B.S. Johnson, 9 Feb 1970. General Report for Welsh Arts Council Cretaive Prose Competition, 25 May 1971. Society of Authors AGM speech, 26 Jul 1973. Report to the British Council by B.S. Johnson, ona visit to Czechoslovakia under the Cultural Exhc...
Letters from correspondents including Ambit (magazine) and the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1962-1965. Letters from correspondents including playwright John Arden, author and journalist John Arlott, Ambit and Asylum Publications between 1965-1973. Correspondence between Johnson and the A...
Letters from John Cotton (including a poem), Constable publishers and Charles Causley among others, 1960-1965. Letters from Charles Causley, Mel Calman, and Calder and Boyars, Ltd., among others, 1965-1973. Letters from Rosica Colin, literary agent, 1960-1962.
Letters from correspondents including George Macbeth with script of the poem Rejectamenta for radio broadcast, Val Mulkerns, and Alan Marshfield with some of his poems, 1961-1965. Letters from correspondents including poet Adrian Mitchell, Hayden Murphy, Patrick Morgan with poems, Alan Marshfield...
University Drama Society and stage plays produced by B.S. Johnson
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Working papers relating to B.S. Johnson's activities in the King's College University Drama Society, during which he produced several productions and material relating to his productoion of Johnnie Quarrel's plays The Ramp and Backwards in 1970.