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This series contains manuscripts of five of Michael Curtin’s six novels.

Typescript draft of The Replay with copy editor’s handwritten alterations. Chapter headings on separate handwritten sheets. Pagination on typed sheets. Lacking pages 213-215. In three folders.

Typescript draft of The League Against Christmas with copy editor’s handwritten alterations. Some of the pages are photocopies. Pagination. In three folders. Also a cover letter from Marie Therese Duggan, Managing Director, Camera Pen Ltd., 10 River Lane, Shangannagh, Shankill, county Dublin, to Conor Kenny, Kenny’s Bookshop, Quay Street, Galway.

Typescript draft of chapters 9-22 of The Cove Shivering Club, with some handwritten alterations. Paginated.

Letters from producer Marie Therese Duggan, Cathal Black Film & Video Productions, ‘St Nessans’, Sandyford Village, Sandyford, county Dublin, to Michael Curtin, 93 O’Connell Street, Limerick, relating to the prospect of adapting The League Against Christmas for film and the subsequent abandonment of the plan. Also see P19/1/2.

Letters from James J. Curtin, discussing the merits of The Replay and The Self-Made Men.

Letters from Charles Frewin at various addresses, expressing his enthusiasm for The Self-Made Men, The Replay, and The League Against Christmas. Later letters relate to Frewin’s subsequent bookselling career in Australia and his release of a paperback version of The League Against Christmas under Two Heads Publishing.

This collection contains manuscripts of five of Michael Curtin’s six novels and correspondence relating to his career as a writer.

Typescript draft of The Plastic Tomato Cutter, with some handwritten alterations. Paginated. Text complete but pagination skips p. 194. In three folders.

Letters from managing editor Keith Goldsmith, George Braziller, Inc., One Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016, USA, to Michael Curtin, 13 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Limerick, relating to the American rights in The Replay and the novel’s first and favourable review in the New Yorker Magazine.