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Novels
1972
Series of literary papers of Wole Soyinka relating to his novels as published by Rex Collings. Files are arranged by published title and include annotated typescripts, annotated proof copies and some ...
Fragment of a Novel
17 June 1816
Sometimes referred to as 'A Fragment' or 'The Burial: A Fragment'. The original holograph manuscript accompanied by a more recent typescript. The story was the result of a meeting that Byron had i...
'I Tell of Greenland' novel
1976-1977
'I Tell of Greenland', including 30 autograph manuscript notebooks containing the original text. Autograph typescript draft used by the publishers (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977). Berry's revis...
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...
Season of Anomy
c. 1972
1 file relating to the novel ‘Season of Anomy’, first published in 1972. File contains an annotated typescript of ‘Season of Anomy’.
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.
ALS from Theodore Watts-Dunton to FL Leipnik
12/Feb/1907
ALS of 12 February 1907 from Theodore Watts-Dunton to FL Leipnik, seeking Hungarian Gypsy background for his never-published novel, Carniola. 5 pp.
Literary papers
Bradford, Barbara Taylor (1933-)
2019
This series includes a typescript draft of 'Master of His Fate', with manuscript annotations by the author. This was the first in the 'House of the Falconer' seequence of historical novels.
Letter from William Black, with related material.
Black, William (1841-1898)
c.1887
Comprises 1 autograph letter from Black to an unnamed recipient dated 15 November (with a transcript), 1 autographed portrait photograph of him, 3 signatures, 1 of which is a facsimile by a bookseller...
Partial letter from Florence Nightingale to Flora Masson
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
21 Feb 1893
Letter and envelope, sent from 10 South Street, Park Lane, W. The first page of the letter has been cut away from underneath the address. The page of the letter that remains discusses a French novel o...