Preliminary autograph notes and research for 'House Mother Normal'.
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Bundles of fragmentary autograph notes on scraps of paper, with ideas noted about structure and more generally about the novel as well as fragments of draft material. Autograph notes about the structure of the novel, notes on the elderly, notes for the printer, revision notes and draft fragments....
Final typewritten manuscript draft for printer of 'House Mother Normal'.
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Final typewritten draft, with typewritten notes to printer stuck on inside cover and extensive autograph notes on page layout and formatting in pencil and green ink, throughout the text. [Returned from Collins 18 Jun 1971]
Papers and correspondence relating to publicity and publication of 'House Mother Normal'.
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Typewritten draft pages of the novel and some mis-typed pages dated Sep 1970. Photocopies of narrator Rosetta Stanton's chapter with english translation of welsh words written in and a press cutting attached. Notes regarding publicity copies, correspondence with Collins [publishers], copies of mo...
Autograph first drafts of each narrator, in nine sections.
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All sections have 21 pages. The folders have brief notes about the character on the front. Sarah Lamson, draft in pencil dated 24 Apr 1970. Charlie Edwards, dated 13 May 1970. Ivy Nichols, undated. Ron Lamson, undated. Mrs Sioned Bowen, undated. George Hedbury, undated. Gloria Ridge, dated 24 M...
Marked up page proofs of novel 'House Mother Normal'.
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Mock-up proof copy of 'House Mother Normal' with red cover, marked for printers with page layout and formatting notes by Johnson in black, green and red ink. [Returned from Collins 18 Jun 1971]