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MS Mus. 1841/3/8
- Record Id:
- 040-003434386
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001965160
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100071257613.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1841/3/8
- Title:
- Elisabeth Lutyens: 'A Goldfish Bowl': Assorted chapter drafts
- Scope & Content:
- Assorted chapter drafts, many of which are clean typset copies.- [ff**7 total]: Front matter and foreword. Title given as ‘The Goldfish Bowl’, with a note by the author reading ‘Don’t like this title as it is _inaccurate_ -- should be “Goldfish bowls” (which is awful) or “Goldfish bowls I’ve escaped from” (which is worse)—to be accurate’. An alternative title given is “Why have you got such big ears, Gran’ma?”, which the author notes is ‘_My_ choice’. - [ff** 29 total]: Clean copy of Chapter 1, ‘Salad Days’, paginated 1-29.- [ff** 63 total]: Clean ‘flimsy’ of Chapter 5, title ‘…the dogs of war’ crossed out. Paginated 1-63. Very light ink annotations.- [ff** 36 total]: Clean copy of Chapter 7, ‘Blast and after Blast’, paginated 1-36.- [ff** 54 total]: Clean copy of Chapter 8, ‘Post-war world’, paginated 1-54.- [ff** 26 total]: Clean copy of Chapter 9, ‘Nightmare world’, unpaginated.- [ff**]: ‘1st flimsy’ copies of Chapters 10 (‘Divided worlds’), 11 (‘…with branches green we ride our ill weather out’), and 12 (‘Approval, removals: assessments, reassessments’), bound together with a brown card cover. Light corrections and annotations in pencil and pen throughout.- [ff**]: Clean copy of Chapter 13, ‘Divided Worlds’, unpaginated.- [ff**]: Copy of Chapter 14, ‘Left over life to live’; several cut/pasted page insertions, some light pencil annotations. Unpaginated.- [ff**] Copy of Chapter 15, ‘My world’. Unpaginated, very light annotations in pen and pencil.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001965160
036-003434137
040-003434386 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1841 : Elisabeth Lutyens Papers
MS Mus. 1841/3 : Elisabeth Lutyens: Material relating to autobiography, 'A Goldfish Bowl'
MS Mus. 1841/3/8 : Elisabeth Lutyens: 'A Goldfish Bowl': Assorted chapter drafts - Hierarchy:
- 032-001965160[0004]/036-003434137[0008]/040-003434386
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1841
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1970
- End Date:
- 1972
- Date Range:
- 1970-1972
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Various sizes
- Arrangement:
- British Library arrangement
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)