Will Self: Umbrella (background genealogical research)
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Information and documents relating to the Self family: (1). Sir Henry Self. British Passport, issued 13 April 1956. (2). 1911 Census information, copied entry for Self family. With e-mail exchange (2005) between Will Self and Matthew Connolly, genealogist. With internet-derived material (printed...
Will Self: Umbrella (background research, various topics)
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Background information on various topics: (1). Victorian and Edwardian advertisements (printed from the internet) for a water elevator (1905), household brushes (1901), bird cages (1910), typewriter (1900), and the cotton trade (1900). Also, a printed image of betting office interior (1909) and ...
Will Self: Phone: Background Research (Chronologies)
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(1). ‘Technological Biography’. Printed from the internet, source not indicated (54pp.). Summarises technological change in communications for the period 1988-2014, from the first PCs to the rise of the smart phone. (2). Chronological summary of international events, political and cultural, fro...
Will Self: Phone: Background Research (Military-related material)
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(1). ‘Commanding Officer’s Directive – Enduring’ by Lt Col R. C. Matthews, Swanton Morley (16 Jul 2004). ‘The purpose of this directive is to outline the parameters within which you should conduct business during my time in command.’ Marked with highlighter pen and pencil annotations in Self’s h...
(1). Incomplete word-processed draft, copy-edited in red ink. 3 sheets (Contents and epigraphs) and pp. 1-35, 39. Lacking final pages of the story. (2). Word-processed draft of the sections 'Kettle' and 'Relative' (final sentence incomplete). 4 sheets + pp. 1-15. (3). Further copy of item (2) ...
(1). Incomplete word-processed draft, revised in pencil (pp. 1-15). (2). Complete word-processed draft, revised in pencil (title page and pp. 1-68). (3). Photocopy of publication in Esquire (Feb 1995), pp. 109-23.
(1). 'In the Union of Facelessness'. Two word-processed drafts (pp. 1-9, and pp. 1-6), both revised in pencil - earlier draft originally titled 'Vienna'. Together with an unmarked third draft (pp. 1-9). Published: New Statesman, 18 Dec 1998. (2). Autograph notes (2 sheets) on the versos of a word...
Word-processed draft, with annotations in pencil by Self. With other occasional annotations in pencil by an editor, including a list of ‘main queries’ in the same hand on the title-page. An editorial annotation in ink on concluding p. 182 proposes a curtailed ending to Will which was evidently a...