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Add MS 88936/2/25

Record Id:
040-000786513
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-000786456
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001245.0x000098
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88936/2/25
Title:
Scope & Content:

Draft with, for the most part, each chapter given a letter.

Contents:

1. 'Chapter 1. First light'. Incomplete. ff. 10.

2. 'Chap. 3. Village school'. Text headed 'Chapter 3? Chapter 2. School', with final chapter number 3 added later. ff. 27.

3. 'Chap. 6. Public death, private murder'. Folios prefixed with B. Text headed 'Chapter 4? Death & murder', with final chapter number 6 added later. ff. 21.

4. 'Chap. 2. First names'. Folios prefixed with C. Text headed 'Chapter 2? First days, with final chapter number 2 added later. ff. 21. Also with three leaves of an earlier draft of the chapter, described as consisting of sixteen pages.

5. 'Chap. 5. Grannies'. Folios prefixed with D. Text headed 'Chapter 5? The old ladies', with final chapter number 5 added later. ff. 24.

6. 'Chap. 10. Uncles'. Folios prefixed with E. Text headed 'Uncles', with final chapter number 10 added later. ff. 21.

'Chapter 4. The kitchen'. Folios prefixed with F. Text headed 'Home. The kitchen', with final chapter number 4 added later ff. 21.

7. 'Chap. 7. Mother'. Folios prefixed with G. Text headed 'Mother', with final chapter number 7 added later. ff. 31.

8. 'Chap. 11. Outings & festivals'. Folios prefixed with H. Text headed 'Festivals & outings', with final chapter number 11 added later. ff. 43 + 2.

9. 'Chap. 9. Sick boy'. Folios prefixed with I. Text headed 'Illness – sick boy', with final chapter number 9 added later. ff. 18.

10. 'Chap. 8. Winter & summer'. Folios prefixed with J. Text headed 'Winter & summer', with final chapter number 8 added later.

11. 'Chap 12. First bite of the apple'. Folios prefixed with K. Text headed 'Sex. First bite at the apple', with final chapter number 12 added later. Some leaves omitted and replaced by unnumbered revised leaf.

12. 'Chap. 13. Last days'. Folios prefixed with L. Text headed 'Last days', with final chapter number 13 added later. ff. 24.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000786456
036-000786486
037-000786509
038-000786510
040-000786513
Is part of:
Add MS 88936 : Laurie Lee Papers
Add MS 88936/2 : Laurie Lee: Prose Works
Add MS 88936/2/23-49 : Papers for 'Cider with Rosie'. Lee's memoir of his early life in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire. Two…
Add MS 88936/2/23-26 : Autograph drafts. There is one first draft of the opening chapters. There are also two full drafts of the text, which appears…

 

Add MS 88936/2/25 : Draft with, for the most part, each chapter given a letter.Contents:1. 'Chapter 1. First light'. Incomplete. ff. 10.2.…
Hierarchy:
032-000786456[0002]/036-000786486[0004]/037-000786509[0001]/038-000786510[0003]/040-000786513
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88936
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 folder
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1957
End Date:
1957
Date Range:
[1957]
Era:
CE
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