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Add MS 89203/2/4/197
- Record Id:
- 040-004299810
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003345873
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156943835.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89203/2/4/197
- Title:
- Will Self: Phone: Background Research (Miscellaneous)
- Scope & Content:
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(1). List of military slang. Word-processed (2 sheets).
(2). List of slang words and phrases (Liverpool and Manchester usage). Word-processed (2 sheets).
(3). Extracted photocopied pages (3 double-sided sheets) from Roger Caillois, Man, Play and Games (1961).
(4). Complete programme for a recital of songs by Schubert, Mahler and Wagner at the Wigmore Hall (5 Nov 2016). The programme is folded-back showing the words, in English and German, for Im Treibhaus (In the Greenhouse) and Träume (Dreams).
(5). Song lyrics for: ‘Young man you too girlie girlie’ (Sophia George); ‘This old man, he played one’; ‘Sheep may safely graze’ (Salomon Franck); ‘Send in the clowns’ (Stephen Sondheim).
(6). Word-processed notes (3 sheets) from Bernard O’Donoghue, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006).
(7). Oliver Sacks, ‘In the River of Consciousness,’ The New York Review of Books, 51:1 (15 Jan 2004). Compete article in the form of a word-processed document, highlighted and annotated by Self (pp. 1-10).
(8). ‘Autism Spectrum Disorders’, a presentation by Dr Fiona Mackay and Charlotte Sykes (14 Nov 2013). Small printed slide images (3 sheets, pp. 1-6). Annotated in pencil by Self.
(9). Undated word-processed letter (2 sheets) from ‘Eli’ to ‘Professor Self’ regarding ‘your question of whether or not there is any direct link between playing video games and real-life shooting accuracy’.
(10). ‘Carstairs State Hospital’. A word-processed document assembling information about the Hospital derived from a variety of sources, incorporating colour photographs of the building (pp. 1-46).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003345873
033-003357982
036-003359578
040-004299810 - 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 89203/2/4/197 : Will Self: Phone: Background Research (Miscellaneous) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003345873[0002]/033-003357982[0006]/036-003359578[0198]/040-004299810
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89203
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2013
- End Date:
- 2016
- Date Range:
- 2013-2016
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former Internal References:
- Deposit 11466
- Source of Acquisition:
- Received from Will Self, 18 March 2022.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)