Complete typescript, with revisions throughout in ink and pencil. Sheets numbered 1-236, with two sheets numbered 236. Originally filed with Add MS 88919/6/6.
Various notes and some draft passages retained together in a blue folder originally within Add MS 88919/4/9. The blue folder is without title but written on the back (retained) is a list of nine stories collected in the volume Learning to Swim (1982).
Autograph manuscript and typescript, together with a letter (2 August, 1994) from The Independent Magazine inviting Swift to contribute to a series entitled 'Heroes and Villains'.
Copies of illustrations, including some additional illustrations not used in the published volume, together with related notes. In addition to a complete set of black and white photocopies, some of the illustrations gathered are as colour photocopies. Includes the image of Salman Rushdie as a c...
Corrected typescript sheets (revisions in pencil and in ink) arranged in small sets with wrap-around sheets (some with headings or comments). Original order maintained by inner sub-files, as follows: epigraphs: 2 sheets, including an additional epigraph (from Jobes, Dictionary of Mythology, Fol...
A large number of notes (manuscript), and some draft passages, on an assortment of paper sizes, including A4 and smaller notepads, envelopes and various small sheets. Includes two British Library loan slips (1982): Leon Bertin, Eels, A Biological Study (1956), and J K Altes, Sir Cornelius Verm...
Complete 'original typescript' (as designated on storage box file label), comprising title-sheet and other preceding sheets (7 sheets) and text sheets numbered 1-278 (with additional sheets 47A, 95A, 182A). With corrections in ink throughout, and occasional markings in pencil.