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Once I was alive, and had flesh did thrive but now I am, a skellitan. at 70. TBC
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Reflections at 70: Where Am I?: notes and various drafts
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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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Manuscripts: Amis, Kingsley (Girl 20 [AMS 47]-I Want It Now [AMS 56])
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The bulk of the collection consists of drafts of novels, short stories, poems, essays and television and radio scripts by Kingsley Amis, many heavily corrected. Also included are individual manuscript pieces by Martin Louis Amis, Sir John Betjeman, Elizabeth Jane Howard, and George Melly, and groups of limericks by Robert Conquest. Letters deal with personal and literary matters, including Amis' reactions to the work of other authors and their reactions to his writings.
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Manuscripts: Amis, Kingsley (I Want It Now [AMS 57]-"Late Effort")
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[Frost, Robert Lee?] [Poem in 3 stanzas of 4 lines each, beginning:] "I had a love once …"
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1 leaf, 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. Manuscript (apparently in the handwriting of Elinor M. Frost).
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A new ballad to the praise of James D. of Monmouth. He once was great, and to this land did bring triumphant bays and lautel [sic] to his King. To the tune of Now, now 'tis in vain
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ESTC R12356 ; Verse - "Notwithstanding the frowns"
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