Will Self: Great Apes (second draft, chapters 1-6)
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Word-processed draft, revised by hand in pencil: Chapter 1, pp. 1-19.Chapter 2, pp. 21-38.Chapter 3, pp. 39-56.Chapter 4, pp. 57-82. Re-titled 'Chapter Six' - text corresponds to published chapter 6.Chapters 4 and 5, pp. 83-134.
Will Self: How the Dead Live (background research: photographs)
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Two sets of postcard-sized photographs, together with an identifying note (not in Will Self's hand) indicating that the photographs are background research. The photographs are of urban settings in London. They comprise: 21 colour photographs. The subjects of some have been circled with a black ...
Will Self: Dorian (second draft, Parts One and Two)
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Word-processed draft corresponding to Parts One and Two only of the novel. Corrected by hand in pencil, identified as '2nd draft', comprising: original wrap-around sheet for Part 1 (noting tentative title: 'Recording?'); Chapter 1, pp. 1-29; Chapter 2, pp. 30-42; Chapter 3, pp. 43-60; Chapter 4,...
Will Self: Dorian (third draft, Part Three, Epilogue)
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Word-processed draft, corrected by hand in pencil, corresponding to Part Three and the Epilogue of the novel, originally continuous with the previous file where it is identified on the title-page as 'Third Draft'. Comprising: Title-page to Part Three (includes pencil note of writing schedule, wi...
Will Self: Dorian (Part Three and Epilogue, copy-edited text)
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Part Three, and Epilogue, copy-edited in red ink: Part Three title-page;Chapter 13, pp. 365-391;Chapter 14, pp. 392-423;Chapter 15, pp. 424-457;Chapter 16, pp. 458-486;Chapter 17, pp. 487-527;Chapter 18, pp. 528-553, 553A, 554-565;Epilogue, pp. 567-614.
Will Self: The Butt (photocopied typescript, late draft)
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Photocopied typescript: Top card, in Self's hand: 'Photocopied typescript with some hand annotations'. Typed notes on 'Characters', 'Tribal/Ethnic Attitudes' and short glossary (3 sheets). Title-page, epigraph, and pp. 1-331 (there is no p. 109 - no text missing). Annotations only appear on p...
(1). Front of original storage envelope identifying the two texts. (NB The designation '1st draft' on the envelope front with regard to the typewritten fragment listed below appears to refer to the first draft of these particular (retyped) pages rather than to the story as a whole - note 2008 dat...
Will Self: Walking to Hollywood (scrapbook of 'post-it' notes)
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A scrapbook in which a large number of 'post-it' notes have been placed, composition prompts generated during the drafting of Walking to Hollywood. For further 'post-it' notes, see Add MS 89203/2/4/147.
Will Self: Umbrella (1st draft, typescript pp. 1-50)
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Carbons of typewritten first draft, pp. [1]-50. Unmarked save for a draft passage in pencil on the verso of p. [1]. The first page is an incomplete (sepia) photocopy of the draft as revised (lacking lines at the top and bottom of the page - the pencil draft on the verso of p. [1] supplies the m...