Showing 537 results

Typescript draft of an article which begins: ‘When you, my long-lost long distancers – or should I say, if any of you read me during next week…’. Paginated.

Typescript draft of an article which begins: ‘A gentle reader of this column of mine has reproached me, in a very kind letter…’. Paginated.

Typescript draft of an article which begins: ‘I am typing by candlelight – and my goodness, what bad light that is!’ Paginated.

Typescript draft of an article which begins: ‘In terms of time I am not a very long distance from Ireland…’. Paginated.

Typescript draft of an article which begins: ‘Into our sad, increasingly distressful world summer has at least had the decency to turn up…’. Paginated. Also see 2/1/2/1/38.

Handwritten draft of a lecture with some typescript inserts, entitled ‘Ireland & Avantgardisme’ which begins: ‘Etc. etc. I am honoured & glad to be here, & to know that your Association saw fit to invite me…’. Paginated and contains some amendments in ink.

Typescript draft of a lecture for Ramsgate Arts Society entitled ‘Ivan Turgenev’ which begins: ‘The subject of this talk tonight, Ivan Turgenev, was one of the greatest of all novelists…’.

Typescript draft of a lecture with some handwritten pages, entitled ‘James Joyce: the Spoilt Priest’ and begins: ‘In 1933, when he was only eight years from his death, and deep lost in the flowing and overwhelming inspiration of Finnegans Wake…’. Paginated and contains amendments in ink.

Handwritten draft of a lecture in French on headed paper of Comunità Europea degli Scrittori which begins: ‘M. le President, MM. les Vice-Présidents, chers collégues – Il n’est jamais facile de parler avec precision à la fois…’.

Mostly notes on scraps of paper containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of friends and other contacts at home and abroad, including Creation Property & Printing Limited, the International Copyright Bureau Limited, journalists from the Kent Messenger, Michael and Mollie Hardwick, Oksana Kuugeusky of Writers Union, Moscow, and Guy and Sylvia Chilver, Kent. In addition, a serviette with details of Valladolid University in Spain. Also includes invitations, letters, a telephone message in connection with the visit to Valladolid University, Spain, and a bill from Hotel Suecia, Madrid, Spain.