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Add MS 88938/3/25
- Record Id:
- 040-001563938
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000673106
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000427.0x000196
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88938/3/25
- Title:
- Occasional Prose
- Scope & Content:
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Various examples of Ballard's occasional prose, as follows:
- A single typescript sheet (numbered 2). Discusses Michel Siffre's underground isolation experiment (1962) when he spent sixty days in the Scarasson Cavern. The sheet is the latter portion of a review of Siffre, Beyond Time (1964), published in The Guardian newspaper, 23 July 1965, p. 7.
- Brief comments on six 'crime' novels: Dostoievsky, Crime and Punishment; Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue; Kafka, The Trial; Chandler, The Big Sleep; Spillane, My Gun is Quick; and Fleming, Casino Royale. Single sheet, typescript.
- 'Images of the Future', annotated in Ballard's hand 'Unpublished Circa 1966'. Discusses science fiction. 3 sheets photocopy typescript.
- Newspaper cutting ('Junkyard dreams') in which Ballard previews a Channel 4 television documentary about Eduardo Paolozzi. 1987.
- 'Sigmund Freud' (item for the The Guardian newspaper, 'Icons of the 20th Century - Novelists'). Single sheet autograph manuscript, dated 24 January 1998.
- 'Time and Tacita Dean'. 3 sheets typescript. Published in Tacita Dean (Tate Publishing, 2001).
- Photocopy autograph letter and brief text to Nelly Kaprielian describing the Heathrow Hilton as 'my favourite London building'. 2 sheets, dated 4 July 2003.
- 'The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao'. 5 sheets photocopy typescript. Published in The Guardian, 8 October 2007.
- 'Jeremy Reed: Foreword'. 2 sheets photocopy typescript, without date. See Reed to Ballard (12 September 2005), in Add MS 88938/2/1/5.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000673106
036-000786687
040-001563938 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88938 : The Papers of J. G. Ballard
Add MS 88938/3 : J G Ballard: Works
Add MS 88938/3/25 : Occasional Prose - Hierarchy:
- 032-000673106[0003]/036-000786687[0026]/040-001563938
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88938
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1964
- End Date:
- 2007
- Date Range:
- [c 1965]-2007
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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