Last Orders: 'Previous Versions' of Eight Chapters
Scope & Content:
Eight chapters (typescript, with corrections in pencil) designated as 'previous versions'. With title sheet to file in Swift's hand. The chapters are numbered: A/CH1, A/CH3A, A/CH8, A/CH18, A/CH24, A/CH29, A/CH49A (with 1 sheet notes in pencil designated '49B'), A2/CH54. Footers to each sheet ...
Tomorrow: 'Latest Working Draft Prior to Final Copy'
Scope & Content:
Complete typescript draft, with revisions and annotations in pencil throughout. Sheets numbered 1-191. With two sheets numbered: 12, 13, 20, 26, 30, 31, 79, 80, and 173.
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.
Complete typescript, marked 'Revised' on title-page, and with note designating text as 'Final copy for copy editor'. Text numbered 1-236, with corrections in black ink.
Together with three printed e-mail messages (December 2006) from Swift to Picador, a further set of author's proofs showing very occasional markings in pencil.
1. Covers from Hamish Hamilton (dustjacket), Knopf and Vintage International. 2. 2006. A new cover proof (with attached card from Simon Prosser, Hamish Hamilton) for the Penguin edition.
Draft text in autograph manuscript, specifically designated by chapter. Draft material for chapters: 2, 8, 27, 29, 32, 33/34, and draft passages marked 'Previous Plans'. Material in this file originally continuous with Add MS 88919/5/4 and Add MS 88919/5/5.
First autograph draft, in 62 numbered chapters. Chapter numbers are indicated in the top right corner of each sheet. The sheets of each chapter are individually numbered (centre-top). There is no material for chapters designated 31 and 33. With a personal slip in Swift's hand identifying the m...