Typescript draft of 'Statement Against Corpses' by Johnson and Ghose
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Draft manuscript with annotations, corrections and text layout instructions. This was the manuscript copy from which the printer's manuscript was typed.
Galley proofs and advance proofs of 'Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry'.
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3 pages of corrected galley proofs of contents and opening pages. One clean copy uncorrected advance proof. One uncorrected advance proof with annotation on first page and signed on title page. One uncorrected advance proof with annotation on front cover. One corrected advance proof with marked f...
'You're Human Like the Rest of Them', stage play for Royal Shakespeare Company
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Draft and printed scripts of the stage play written for Royal Shakespeare Company. Later performed at Basement Theatre as part of B.S. Johnson vs God (1971).
'Down Red Lane', play originally for Basement Theatre, broadcast as a radio play in 2002.
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Draft scripts and radio broadcast script of a play originally written for Basement Theatre, but performed in Open Space Theatre, broadcast as a radio play in 2002.
Typewritten draft of 'Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry', with details of cuts and amendments.
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Typewritten pages dated 29 Mar 1972, with details of cuts which amounted to one fifth of the novel. Re-written typescript of chapter eight, dated 26 Feb 1973.
Papers relating to publicity, reviews and radio dramatisation of 'Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry'.
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File of papers relating to publicity of the novel, including typewritten and autograph suggested lists of promotion and reviewers with contact details, typewritten extract from the novel, cover letters for review copies, correspondence from Collins Publishers, typewritten draft blurb for novel an...
Notes and typewritten draft of 'See the Old Lady Decently', marked up for printer.
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Autograph notes in pencil about titles and dedications. Autograph notes about the novel, work charts, correspondence with the printer. Typewritten draft manuscript in sections, with notes on formatting and layout for printer.