File divided into three parts: Various notes 'Final(?) Plan & Notes' 'Previous Plans (Rejected Versions) & Notes' With original file front bearing title.
Various notes (manuscript and typescript), many of which appear to be points of information and detail to be checked, organised by Swift as follows: 1. 'Plan of Previous Rejected Version'; 2. 'A/Plan (MS)'; 3. 'A2/R' - 235 numbered points [39 sheets typescript]; 4. 'A2/T List' - 70 numbered ...
Autograph manuscript, corrected typescript, and proofs with annotations in pencil. All material dated December 1989. Article commissioned by Granta magazine.
Waterland: Draft Passages (Autograph Manuscript) from Chapters 2-31
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Various passages in draft, arranged according to chapter. Draft passages with the following chapter designations: 2, 2A, 3A, 4A, 4, Alpha ('replaces 4'), 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14A, 16, 17B, 18, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 31. This file originally continuous with Add MS 88919/4/3, where draft ma...
A complete early draft (typescript), annotated on the title page: 'Earlier draft before main revisions'. Includes 'Fishing with David: The Magic Wheel, 1986' and also includes an index, neither of which appear in the published volume. Sheets numbered 1-348. Without markings, apart from annotat...
Complete draft, designated 'latest working draft' on cover sheet dated September 2007. Sheets numbered 1-348, with additional sheets inserted. The draft includes Index and 'Fishing with David' (the title of the latter is struck-through in the list of Contents).
A complete copy of New Fiction (Magazine of the New Fiction Society), No. 9 (October 1976) containing (pp. 14-15) statements by three authors 'at the start of their careers' about 'why they bother to write': Allan Massie, Graham Swift and Neil Jordan. An identifying card supplied by Swift and i...