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1. Add MS 88938/1

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Title:
J G Ballard: Personal and Family Material (including Photographs)
Scope & Content:
Various items, including: Certificates of Birth, Baptism and Marriage; papers concerning Ballard's schooling in Shanghai and Cambridge; two passports; some family letters and cards; correspondence with 10 Downing Street concerning the award (declined) of CBE; certificate from De Montfort Universi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931-2006
Extent:
22 files

2. Add MS 88938/1/12

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Title:
Photographs
Scope & Content:
Various family and professional photographs, from Shanghai to Shepperton.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1935]-[2000]
Extent:
11 files

3. Add MS 88938/1/6

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Title:
Family Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Two letters, three postcards, and three greetings cards, as follows: (1) Two letters from [Helen] Mary [Ballard] to Margaret [sister of J G Ballard]: Thursday 2 April [1964], from Delfryn, Dyserth, North Wales. The letter includes references to several Ballard publications (he has a story 'in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1964]-2006
Extent:
1 file

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Title:
The Lethbridge Herald (Alberta)
Scope & Content:
The front page of The Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta), Friday 13 August 1937 (without markings). Report includes an aerial photograph of Shanghai showing 'outstanding landmarks'. Main headline: 'Open Warfare Breaks Out in Shanghai. Jap Naval Guns and Chinese Batteries Go Into Action; Sc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:
1 file

5. Add MS 88938/1/2

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Title:
J G Ballard: Schooling
Scope & Content:
(1) The Cathedral School for Boys (Henry Lester Endowment), Shanghai: 1938 and 1940: two Certificates for 'good work'; 17 May 1941: Sports Day programme (photocopy), with Ballard listed in two events (marked with red highlighter pen). (2) Lunghwa Academy: Report (photocopy) of James Ballard for ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-1994
Extent:
1 file

6. Add Ms 88938/1/3

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Title:
J G Ballard: Passports
Scope & Content:
Two British Passports, issued 1965 and 1989. With brown envelope addressed to Ballard at 36 Charlton Road, Shepperton.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965-1999
Extent:
1 file

7. Add MS 88938/1/9

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Title:
Ordnance Survey Map of Shepperton
Scope & Content:
Ordnance Survey map of Shepperton and surrounding area: Sheet TQ 06 NE Surrey (1960, reprinted 1969). Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile. The map is not marked or annotated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969
Extent:
1 file

8. Add MS 88938/1/13

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Title:
Honorary Doctor of Letters (De Montfort)
Scope & Content:
1. Original certificate, De Monfort University: 'The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters is conferred upon Mr J G Ballard on this 15th day of July Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Seven. 2. Colour photograph of four people in caps and gowns, one of which is Ballard. Dimensions: 125 x 190mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1997
Extent:
1 file

9. Add Ms 88938/1/4

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Title:
Boy's Own Paper
Scope & Content:
A complete and unmarked copy of Boy's Own Paper (May 1937). Discussing his boyhood reading in Miracles of Life (p. 20), Ballard refers to 'the Chums and Boy's Own Paper annuals, aggressive compendiums of patriotic derring-do'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 88938/1/1

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Title:
Certificates of Birth, Baptism and Marriage
Scope & Content:
(1) Birth, James Graham Ballard, born 15 November 1930: 17 January 1931: Certified copy of Entry of Birth (Shanghai Consulate General); 11 December 1959: Certificate of Birth (with Scottish Life Assurance Co Ltd envelope); 16 June 1965: Certified copy of Entry of Birth (Somerset House). (2) Bapt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931-1965
Extent:
1 file

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