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

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 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.

Photocopy of a typescript screen adaptation of The League Against Christmas. Paginated. Pages 32-34 and 36-44 have been replaced by photocopied extracts from the original typescript.

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

Typescript draft of Sing! with some handwritten alterations. Paginated. Text complete but pagination skips pages 101 and 212. In three folders.

Rejection letters from various publishers in relation to The Plastic Tomato Cutter.

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

Letters from Tim Binding, Penguin Books Ltd., 536 King’s Road, London SW10 0UH, to Michael Curtin, Mount Pleasant Avenue, Limerick, relating to the paperback rights in The Self-Made Men.