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Graham Greene, drafts of two novels with literary contracts and film rights
Greene, Graham (1904-1991)
1935-1980
(1) A series of versions of Greene's late novel 'Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party', including a complete signed autograph manuscript, a series of TS versions with MS corrections, proofs, and...
Barbara Taylor Bradford Archive
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)
c.1940-2019
Includes typecript copies of her novels, some with manuscript annotations, printers' proofs, published novels, press cuttings and magazines featuring articles about Taylor Bradford, papers relating to...
William Black, The Penance of John Logan
Black, William (1841-1898)
1887
Manuscript copy, autograph, of his novel "The Penance of John Logan", which was first published in 1889. The novel is written on the recto side of each leaf of the volume in a small, condensed hand in...
Patricia Tyrrell Collection
Tyrrell, Patricia (1929-)
1958-2015
Includes manuscript notebooks containing drafts of poems and an annotated typescript draft of a novel. Also contains correspondence, articles by and about Tyrrell and photographs.
Blake Morrison Literary Archive
Morrison, Blake (1950-)
c1950 - 2023
Literary Archive of Blake Morrison covering books and novels, poetry, journalism (print and broadcast) and plays and libretti. Also includes a substantial series of correspondence.
Elizabeth North Archive
1980-2002
Includes typescript drafts of Elizabeth North's novels, short stories, plays, articles, and poems, manuscript notes, manuscript journals, correspondence, teaching materials and reviews of North's work...
Angela Thirkell (Brotherton Collection)
Works of Angela Thirkell (1890-1961). For the most part, her novels are gently satirical chronicles of the doings of the nobility and gentry of Trollope’s Barsetshire. Thirkell still has a devoted f...
Robert Aspin Freeman notebooks and papers
Freeman, Robert Aspin (1854-1943)
c.1875-1940
The collection contains notes on ancient Egyptian script, Icelandic, and other topics including algebra and royal geneaology. There is a draft translation of Kristni saga labelled 'for the printer'. ...
Frances Brody Archive
1969 - 2016
Literary papers of Frances Brody (also writing as Frances MacNeil) documenting her work as a playwright and novelist. The collection includes drafts and associated correspondence documenting her early...
Richard III Collection
1800-2010
A collection of works on the life and times of Richard III, king of England (1452-1485), including history, biography and historical novels and plays, at all levels from scholarly academic works to se...