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Add MS 89203/2/4/63
- Record Id:
- 040-003367189
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003345873
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100040658827.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89203/2/4/63
- Title:
- Will Self: How the Dead Live (various pages in draft)
- Scope & Content:
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Various word-processed pages in draft:
- (1). Rejected material (8 sheets) struck-through in pencil. Includes a quotation from Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet (perhaps considered as an epigraph).
- (2). 'Epilogue / April 1999' (pp. 1-15). Together with an epigraph from Warren Buffet ('I plan to retire around five years after I die') published as p. 153.
- (3). Draft fragment of the opening pages of Chapter One (equivalent to published pp. 29-35), in the form of a printed e-mail message, single-spaced (pp. 1-2 of 9, remaining pages lacking). Print-out dated 28 March 2000.
- (4). Material held in a folder titled 'How the Dead Live / Final Chapters'. Original file front, various notes in pencil for Chapter 10 onwards, and word-processed drafts of Chapters 15 and 16 (numbered pp. 186-214).
- (5). 'Chapter Sixteen', numbered as pp. 400-26 (chapter not quite complete).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003345873
033-003357982
036-003359578
040-003367189 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89203 : The Papers of Will Self
Add MS 89203/2 : Will Self: Personal and Literary Papers
Add MS 89203/2/4 : Will Self: Fiction
Add MS 89203/2/4/63 : Will Self: How the Dead Live (various pages in draft) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003345873[0002]/033-003357982[0006]/036-003359578[0063]/040-003367189
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89203
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2000
- End Date:
- 2000
- Date Range:
- [2000]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)