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Add MS 89203/2/4/177
- Record Id:
- 040-003372157
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003345873
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100042391534.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89203/2/4/177
- Title:
- Will Self: Shark (background notes and newspapers)
- Scope & Content:
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Various printed and autograph notes, 'post-it' notes, and two newspapers, including:
- Daily Express (2 Nov 1939), open at p. 3 ('Raymond's mother sees him off to the war' - includes photograph of farewell kiss).
- The Guardian (4 May 1970) open at p. 4 (report from Calcutta: 'Bengal violent - in a new way').
- Bengali Community, East London - information printed from the internet.
- Programme for concert of songs by Schubert (Wigmore Hall, 3 Jun 2013), German and English words printed, some highlighted and underlined.
- Extract from Eliot, The Waste Land; Rimbaud, 'The Drunken Boat' (Le Bateau ivre); lyrics to various songs recorded by Jimi Hendrix.
- Typed notes (prepared for Self) on the canal between London and Berkhamstead.
- Various 'post-it' notes.
- Typed glossary (RAF).
- Typed research notes (prepared for Self - by Nick Dimitriou?) on Tring, Berkhamstead and Little Gaddesden 'from the period 1963-73 with an emphasis on both the remarkable and the ultra-mundane'.
- Typed information about Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (1983) and Spare Rib (1973).
- Typed notes on Willesden.
- Typed passage ('Round and round the garden like a teddy bear, Clive said') with 'post-it ' notes on the verso.
- Word-processed letter (no date) from Jon [Wealleans]: 'I promised to write a list of events of May 4th 1970' - notes follow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003345873
033-003357982
036-003359578
040-003372157 - 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 89203/2/4/177 : Will Self: Shark (background notes and newspapers) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003345873[0002]/033-003357982[0006]/036-003359578[0178]/040-003372157
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89203
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1939
- End Date:
- 2014
- Date Range:
- 1939-2014
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Wealleans, Jon, architect, artist, graphic novelist, b 1946