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Pages from a notebook, some bound together in groups, containing a handwritten draft of the novel Trouble in the Glen. Begins: ‘The tall, lean – too lean – veteran’. Alterations. Pagination.

Handwritten draft of the novel Trouble in the Glen beginning with chapter one, ‘Knight-at-arms and His Queen’ opening: ‘The tall, lean veteran of twenty-nine’. Some alterations. Pagination.

Loose pages (headed note paper of P.E.N.) containing untitled handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James, Company Director which begins: ‘The harvest was over and already the tang of the Fall was in the air.’ Alterations. Pagination.

Handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James Goes to the Dogs which begins: ‘I was at a loose end that afternoon.’ Some alterations. Pagination.

Draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Running Dog on the same format as P7/2/2/2/4/1 with the same opening. Some alterations. Pagination.

Large pages from an account book folded over. Contains handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Running Dog which begins: ‘The afternoon was warm for late May’. Some alterations. Pagination.

Large pages from an account book folded over and containing handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Opprobrious Name which begins: ‘As he himself would say, I had seen neither hair nor hide of Thomasheen James’. Alterations. Pagination.

Hardback notebook ‘supplied for the public service’ with ‘Acid Drops – Deepsea-Pilot Cap – Tinker’s Budget’ written on the back cover. Contains handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Gum Drops in pencil which is entitled Thomasheen James and the Acid Drops and begins: ‘Thomasheen James and myself had one of our not unusual disagreements’ and continues on right-hand pages, 1-16. Also contains draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Deepsea-Pilot Cap (6-9 June 1939), beginning upside down at the back, and opening: ‘My wife it was who started this misadventure…’ and continues on right-hand pages, 1-16; draft of a short story Thomasheen James and the Travelling Shop (26-29 June 1939) which begins: ‘It was Spring again for the million millionth time’, pages 1-40, with four pages inserted after page 2. Alterations. Pagination.

Loose pages from a notebook containing handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Acid Drops on the ‘front’. Opens: ‘Thomasheen James and I had one of our not unusual parting of brass rags – or is it brass rings?’ (pages 1-20). Also contains on the ‘back’ from the end, some pages of draft of the short story Thomasheen James, Company Director. Begins: ‘…a mane ould divil Sir Gasher and does most of his own keeper with the aid of Tommy’ (page 6). Pages not in correct order. Alterations. Pagination.

Large sheets from an account book folded-over containing handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Deepsea-Pilot Cap beginning: ‘It was my wife who started this misadventure’. Alterations. Pagination on pages with text.