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Manuscripts

Uncollected short stories: notes, various drafts, with corrections


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    Reviews and essays: research notes, correspondence, various drafts, with corrections, galleys

    Manuscripts

    Includes the following pieces published in collections or periodicals: Palawan, Carnival in Brazil, Voyage to the Marquesas, The World in Pieces, Rock Fever, Apsley Cherry-Gerrard: The Worst Journey in the World, A Dream Diary by G. Greene, Looking for a Ship by J. McPhee, A World of Islands, Hawaii: The Rough and the Smooth, Trespassing in Florida and Elsewhere.

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    Reviews and essays: research notes, correspondence, various drafts, with corrections, galleys

    Manuscripts

    Includes the following pieces published in collections or periodicals: Imagining Hill House, Dead Reckoning, Fiordland, NZ, Laptop, Coronation Street, Salad Days, Sid Perelman, Christopher Okigbo, The Rationale of the Travel Book, New England is My Home, Forerunners, China: Land of Discovery, Indian Country.

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    Three Christmases: set of short stories: early draft, with corrections; later 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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    Notes and various drafts

    Manuscripts

    Includes both versions of chapter 1.

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    Essays and reviews: various drafts

    Manuscripts

    Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: The Young Masters by A. Scholefield, Thinking Girl by N. Meacock, Voyage of the First of December by H. Carlisle, A Siberian Encounter by G. Servadio, How She Died by H. Yglesias, The Prince by R. Koster, Leaf Storm by G. C. Marquez, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by J. Rhys, Our Gang by P. Roth, The World of P. G. Wodehouse ed. H. W. Wind, New American Review ed. T. Solotaroff, The Pleasure of the Short Story (Trevor, Taylor, Ozick), Kazantzakis's England by N. Kazantzakis, The Family by E. Sanders, A Happy Man by P. J. Kavanagh, The Emergence of African Fiction by C. Larson, The Lord's Pink Ocean by D. Walker, Another World by J. Hanley, Josh Lawton by M. Bragg, The Death of the Fuehrer by R. Puccetti, Relatives by D. Plante.

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    Short story as published in "The New Yorker:" early draft, with corrections and page proofs

    Manuscripts

    Short story published on September 7, 2009.

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