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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.

Hardback notebook containing handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Almost Impossible (untitled) which begins: ‘It was Spring again for the million millionth time’ and continuing on right-hand pages, pages 1-41. Also contains from the back upside down, part of a draft of a play A Hawk from a Handsaw (begun 6 February 1939) untitled. Begins with act one as follows: ‘Scene: The kitchen-living room of a country cottage in Ireland, but a remarkable room for a country cottage’ pages 1-42.

Handwritten draft of the short story Butcher to the Queen beginning: ‘When my work took me into the Devil’s Bit mountains’. Some alterations. Pagination.

Handwritten draft of the short story Not My Story which begins: ‘Let me say it right off: this is not my story.’ Some alterations. Pagination.

Handwritten draft of My Fey Lady. Some alterations. Pagination.

This sub-series contains material relating to Maurice Walsh's short story The Mission Sermon, published in 1951 in the collection Son of a Tinker and other Tales.

This sub-series contains material relating to Maurice Walsh's short story The Prudent Man, published in 1951 in the collection Son of a Tinker and other Tales.

Pages 2-3, 4-5 and 18-19 of a typescript draft of The Honest Fisherman.

Typescript draft of the short story entitled The Sword of Yung-Lo. Few alterations. Pagination – pages 24-25 missing.

Typescript draft of the short story Take Your Choice (A Cautionary Story) which begins: ‘Once upon a time – that is how all proper stories begin’. Pagination.