Manuscript draft of a short story titled ‘Ellen’, with some pagination. Also a heavily amended paginated typescript draft of the same story, with further pencilled corrections and amendments. Also a much longer manuscript draft of the same story, paginated, but lacking first page. In two folders.
Sans titreTypescript draft of a short story titled ‘The Hawthorn Tree’, with minor pencilled corrections.
Sans titreManuscript draft of a short story titled ‘My Father’.
Sans titreManuscript draft of a short story titled ‘Old Friends and New Invaders’, lacking last page(s).
Sans titreManuscript draft of a short story with multiple changes of title, including ‘A Pitiful Attempt at Revenge’ and ‘An Unsuccessful Attempt at Revenge’.
Sans titreManuscript draft of a short story titled ‘School’. Also the first two pages of a slightly different version of the same story.
Sans titreManuscript draft of an unfinished short story titled ‘Shallamuddy’, written inside a Basildon Air Mail writing pad.
Sans titreManuscript draft of a short story titled ‘The Town by the Crooked River’.
Sans titreManuscript draft of a short story titled ‘Two Gardens’, paginated but with two pages numbered 28.
Sans titreExercise book containing handwritten drafts of two short stories, the first one titled ‘Mrs Allenbury’s Death Habit’; the second untitled, beginning with the line ‘It was a very old pear-tree, perhaps a little rotten inside, and it swayed tenderly in the wind.’
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