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A treatise on expatriation
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Tarzan is an Expatriate: draft
Manuscripts
The collection is comprised primarily of the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera of Paul Theroux. His works are often semi-autobiographical and are based on his experiences living and traveling around the world. He is noted for his rich, sometimes ironic, description of people and places. The material comprises almost his entire career as a writer and includes multiple drafts of various works from working notebooks to printed galleys. The collection includes novels (1967-2016), short story collections (1972-2014), non-fiction and travel books (1972-2016), and shorter works including reviews, articles, short stories, plays, and lectures (1960-2015); the collection also includes Theroux's working and travel notebooks (1968-2014). The collection also contains professional papers and business correspondence (1963-2015), with publishers, agents, other authors and reader's letters; included in this material are letters from, among others, Eve Auchincloss, Peter De Vries, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Graham Greene, Blanche C. Gregory, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Company, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Raban, Oliver Sacks, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, William Styron, and Auberon Waugh. There is also a smaller amount of family material and personal correspondence (1939-2015), with family and friends; this correspondence includes Eugene Theroux, Alexander Theroux, Peter Theroux, Marcel Theroux, Louis Theroux, Anne Theroux, and various other family members. The ephemera consists of photographs, printed material and magazines (1941-1915).
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Photograph album of a British expatriate in China
Visual Materials
An album of 210 photographs of China taken sometime after the end of World War I, by an unidentified British expatriate likely working in Shanghai, China. Subjects include Shanghai, Hong Kong, Huangpu River, local residents, Westerners, naval and civil ships, coastal villages, Chinese architecture, and historical landmarks. There is no writing in the album, though one photograph of buildings along a waterfront has "my office" in pencil, with an arrow to a building. Many of the snapshots are of local people: children, fishermen, weavers, a shoe cobbler, workers with building materials, and others.
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