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Add MS 89001/4/2/3
- Record Id:
- 040-002358661
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002355190
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000885.0x000099
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89001/4/2/3
- Title:
- Draft book reviews
- Scope & Content:
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- Draft autograph review of The Irish Comic Tradition by Vivien Mercier, for Spectator, 25 Jan 1963.
- Draft autograph review of Earls of Creation by James Lees-Milne, Les Pavillons by Cyril Connolly and Jerome Zerbe and Architecture: the Indispensable Art by W.R. Dalzell, for Spectator, 29 Dec 1962 -1 Jan 1963.
- Draft autograph review of Rails Through the Clay by Alan A. Jackson and Desmond F. Groome, for Spectator, 14-17/1/63.
- Draft autograph revew of The Queen's Mate by Oswell Blakeston, for Western Daily Press, 28 Jan 1963.
- Draft autograph of 'A Double Unicorn', a review of Unicorn Autumn and Winter edited by Norman Harvey, for Western Daily Press, 27 Jan 1963.
- Draft autograph review of The Pattern of English Building by Alec Clifton-Taylor, for Spectator, 31 Jan 1963.
- Draft autograph review of The Screens by Jean Genet, for Western Daily Press, 12 Feb 1963.
- Draft autograph of 'Short Stories from Four Countries', a review of Cinnamon Shops and other stories by Bruno Schulz, The Director’s Wife and other stories by Brian Glanville, The Saucer of Larks by Brian Friel, A Piece of Land by Noel Hilliard and Dadda jumped over Two Elephants by D'Arcy Miland, for Spectator, 28 Jan 1963.
- Draft autograph of 'Destined for an Early End', a review of The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie for April Fool's Day, for Western Daily Press, 17 Mar 1963.
- Draft autograph review of A Reader’s Guide to the Contemporary English Novel by Frederick R. Karl and Postwar British Fiction by James Gindin, for Spectator, 18 Mar 1963.
- Draft autograph review of The Anatomy of Satire by Gilbert Highet, for Western Daily Press, 19 Mar 1963.
- Draft autograph review of Experimental Drama edited by W.A. Armstrong and Karel Ĉapek by William E. Harkins, for Spectator, 20-21 Mar 1963.
- Draft autograph review of Murphy by Samuel Beckett, Watt by Samuel Beckett, Flight of the Bat by Donald Gordon, The Cunninghams by David Ballantyne and The Run of the Night by Peter de Polnay, for Spectator, 3-4 Dec 1963.
- Draft autograph reviews of What Is Remembered by Alice B. Toklas, for Spectator 13 Oct 1963.
- Draft autograph review of New Departures Four edited by Michael Horovitz, for Western Daily Press, 23 Apr 1963.
- Draft autograph review of Penguin Modern Poets 3 by George Barkerm Martin Bell and Charles Causley, Countermoves by Charles Edward Eaton, Alcaic Poems Friedrich Hölderlin, with translations by Elizabeth Henderson and The Lightning Makes a Difference by Hubert Witheford, for Outposts, 18-19 Apr 1963.
- Draft ‘Paperback Planning’, for Spectator, 5 May 1963.
- Draft autograph review ‘Paperback Cribs and Plays’, for Spectator, 9 May 1963.
- Draft autograph review of Father Joe by Joseph Williamson, for Spectator, 16 May 1963.
- Draft reviews of Twelve Plays of Strindberg translated by Elizabeth Sprigge, for Spectator, 1 May 1963. Plus notes for additions.
- Draft autograph review of 'Older Children’s Non-Fiction', for Spectator, 22-23 May 1963.
- Draft autograph review of A Group Anthology edited by Edward Lucie-Smith and Philip Hobsbaum, and Contemporary American Poetry selected and introduced by Donald Hall, for Outposts 1/8/63.
- Draft reviews of The Gypsies by Jean-Paul Clébert, translated by Charles Duff and Gipsies: Forgotten Children of India by Chalman Lal and others, 'Nomads' for Spectator, 12/6/63.
- Draft review of Feathers from the Green Crow by Sean O’Casey, edited by Robert Hogan, for Western Daily Press, 18/8/63.
- Draft autograph review of The Trial of Marie Besnard by Marie Besnard translated by Denise Folliot, The Unknown Citizen by Tony Parker, Prison: A Symposium edited by George Mikes, for Spectator, 11/9/63.
- Review of A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker, Tom and Jenny by Kenneth Warner, The Narrow Shore by Louis Battye, The Hand of Mary Constable by Paul Gallico and The Face of a Madonna by Thomas Armstrong, for Spectator, 20/3/64.
- Review of Divorce a la carte at the New Arts Theatre, 24 Mar 1963.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002355190
036-002355533
037-002358641
040-002358661 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89001 : B.S. Johnson Archive
Add MS 89001/4 : Journalism, other writing and press cuttings
Add MS 89001/4/2 : Reviews by B.S. Johnson
Add MS 89001/4/2/3 : Draft book reviews - Hierarchy:
- 032-002355190[0004]/036-002355533[0002]/037-002358641[0003]/040-002358661
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89001
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1963
- End Date:
- 1963
- Date Range:
- 1963
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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