Manuscripts
Brian Wilson Aldiss letters to Doubleday and Company, Inc
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera. The largest group of letters are written to Aldiss' editors at Doubleday and Company, Inc.: Lawrence P. Ashmead, Diane Cleaver, and Cathleen Jordan. The letters deal with the following works by Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head, Billion Year Spree, Cryptozoic, Eighty-minute Hour, Moment of Eclipse, Report on Probability A, and Space Opera. Other correspondence includes letters from Margaret Aldiss to Diane Cleaver and Anne Borchardt to L.P. Ashmead. Also included: Billion Year Spree provisional outline; publicity questionnaire for Doubleday; Space Opera list of proposed contents; two folders of ephemera; dust jackets for Billion Year Spree and Report on Probability A; photocopies of reviews for Report on Probability A, and three photographs by Jerry Bauer of Brian Aldiss.
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Correspondence; ephemera
Manuscripts
The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera. The largest group of letters are written to Aldiss' editors at Doubleday and Company, Inc.: Lawrence P. Ashmead, Diane Cleaver, and Cathleen Jordan. The letters deal with the following works by Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head, Billion Year Spree, Cryptozoic, Eighty-minute Hour, Moment of Eclipse, Report on Probability A, and Space Opera. Other correspondence includes letters from Margaret Aldiss to Diane Cleaver and Anne Borchardt to L.P. Ashmead. Also included: Billion Year Spree provisional outline; publicity questionnaire for Doubleday; Space Opera list of proposed contents; two folders of ephemera; dust jackets for Billion Year Spree and Report on Probability A; photocopies of reviews for Report on Probability A, and three photographs by Jerry Bauer of Brian Aldiss.
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Aldiss, Brian Wilson. 1 letter to Kingsley Amis, L.S. (typewritten: 1 p.), Oxford
Manuscripts
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.
AMS 183.
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Aldiss, Brian Wilson. 1 letter (1980, Dec. 3) to Elizabeth Jane Howard, A.L.S. (2 p.), Oxford (England)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of Elizabeth Jane Howard's manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and ephemera. The manuscripts cover the entire span of her writing career and include her major novels, as well as articles, essays, plays, short stories, book reviews, and interviews. In some cases there are multiple drafts of a work, enabling a researcher to trace Howard's creative process. The correspondence includes personal letters and letters related to Howard's work. The collection holds over 800 photographs and seven boxes of printed ephemera.
EJH 194.
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Butler, Octavia E. To Doubleday and Company, inc
Manuscripts
L.Df.S. (typewritten: 1p.); 28cm. Los Angeles, Calif. With the author's autograph notes and corrections on the recto and verso. Note: Patternmaster formerly titled "Bondage" and "Birthright." Note: formerly in back pocket of red/tan portfolio. Subject: Patternamster.
OEB 3875
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Doubleday and Company, inc. To Octavia E. Butler
Manuscripts
L.S. (typewritten: 1p.); 22cm. New York, N.Y. Also: Butler, Octavia E. A.L.Df. to Doubleday and Company, inc., written on the recto of the above.
OEB 4896