Super-Cannes material comprises: complete autograph manuscript; draft passges in typescript; an incomplete typescript (commencing in chapter 7); and some brief correspondence concerning 'editorial queries' and the text of the publisher's blurb.
Various individual pages (typescript and manuscript) that have been revised. Revisions precede the (incomplete) typescript in the subsequent files (Add MS 88938/3/21/3/1-3). The typescript sheets (revised by hand and by white correction fluid) are numbered as follows: 1, 1, 15, 33, 34, 68, 101,...
Complete autograph manuscript of Super-Cannes, here divided into 10 files. The manuscript is written in blue ink, with revisions in red, and with a number of smaller sheets interleaved.
1. A number of specific 'editorial queries' concerning stylistic matters, and consistency, sent to Ballard by fax (from Tim Waller, 7 March 2000). Ballard has responded by annotation against each. (9 sheets.) 2. By fax, 2 March, 2000, from Margaret Hanbury (literary agent), a copy of the publis...
An incomplete typescript, here divided into three files. The typescript has been revised with white correction fluid. It commences on sheet numbered 82 (in the midst of chapter 7) and is complete thereafter.
Sheets (typescript) numbered 82-222 (from the midst of chapter 7 to chapter 19). Note: there are two sheets numbered 85. The text has been revised with white correction fluid.
Sheets (typescript) numbered 223-352. Note: there are two sheets numbered 228, and a sheet numbered 312a. Also, there is no sheet 326, although the text is continuous between 325 and 327. The text has been revised with white correction fluid.