With a covering note from the author (suggesting the span of their composition), a number of poems in autograph draft, some of which were published in Making an Elephant (2009).
Autograph manuscript, corrected typescript, and proofs with annotations in pencil. All material dated December 1989. Article commissioned by Granta magazine.
A complete copy of New Fiction (Magazine of the New Fiction Society), No. 9 (October 1976) containing (pp. 14-15) statements by three authors 'at the start of their careers' about 'why they bother to write': Allan Massie, Graham Swift and Neil Jordan. An identifying card supplied by Swift and i...
Typescript, with page proof (stamped 24 September, 1988), and a covering note from The Sunday Times where it appeared (in the Magazine) as 'Graham Swift's Wandsworth'.
A brief statement (1 sheet) for Swift's publishers (Picador), intended for the promotion of Tomorrow in Germany. With an identifying cover-sheet supplied by Swift.
Essay without title, prefaced with the note: 'Adapted from an address given at the 13th International Writers' Reunion at Lahti, Finland in June 1987, where the theme was "Literature and Exhibitionism"'. Text in typescript, with a photocopy of its appearance in The Times (5 March, 1988). Also, ...
Typescript (1999), with author's cover-note identifying it as adapted from a previous essay published in The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored (Penguin, 1993).
A brief text by Swift, describing the room in which he writes, for the series published in The Guardian. With a printed copy (b/w) of the photograph of Swift's desk that accompanied his text, and an identifying cover-sheet.
Typescript entitled 'Microlight Flight Over Fens' (1987) together with the published article ('Flights of Fancy', Telegraph Sunday Magazine - 2 sheets) which includes a photograph of Swift sitting in a microlight.