Manuscripts

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Description: Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: Maurice by E. M. Forster, Burmese Day: a visit to Burma, Saki on his Centenary, Not with a Banger but a Wimpy, Islands in the Stream by E Hemingway, My Travels with Joseph Conrad, Writing in the Abstract, Irritants Abroad, Reflections on Tarzan.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1968-1971
Call number: mssTheroux
Creator: Theroux, Paul(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Joint purchase and gift from Paul Theroux, 2016.; Purchased in part by the Library Collector's Council from Paul Theroux, January 16, 2016.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED: Box 140a: fragile, cannot be paged until conserved. Box 141: housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.

Essays and reviews: various drafts

Manuscripts

Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: To Defend, To Destroy by J Reston Jr., Like Men Betrayed by F Raphael, The Dick Gibson Show by S Elkin, Dealing by M Douglas, The Dragon Wakes by C Hibbert, Yankee Doodle by P Farb, The Ordeal of Running Standing by T Fall, The Case Against Org by M Dintenfass, Brill Among the Ruins by V Bourjaily, A Guest of Honour by N Gordimer, A God Novel by W Butler, The Rim of the Tub by E Scott, A Cry of Bees by M Hardy, The Snail Watcher by P Highsmith, Armed Camps by K Reed, Poor Teddy Black by J Nash, The Castaways by J.L. Cooper, The Voyage of the Franz Josef by J Yaffe, Down All the Days by C Brown, Vital Parts by T Berger, Very Lovely People by L Kennedy, Love, Roger by C Webb, A Sight of China by C Nolan / Half Crown Colony by J Pope-Hennessy, Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship by G Vidal, Maundy by J Gloag, Why Are We In Vietnam? by N Mailer, The Spook Who Sat by the Door by S Greenlee, High by T Hinde, The Sardinian Smile by P Dumitriu.

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Essays and reviews: various drafts

Manuscripts

Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: Fear of Flying by E. Jong, The White Pumpkin by D. Hills, Kipling by P. Mason, Letter from London (NYT: 1976), Here at the New Yorker by B. Gill, The Twenties by E. Wilson, Guerrillas by V. S. Naipaul, Yesterday's Spy by L. Deighton, Passage to Ararat by M. Arlen, Down Your Way: profile, Raffles by Sapper, Frank Harris by P. Pullar, The Letters of J. R. Ackerley, The Manson Murders by V. Bugliosi, Crewe: a Visit,Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons by K. Vonnegut, The Conservationist by N. Gordimer, NATO in Brussels: a visit, The Clockwork Testament by A. Burgess, Your Isadora by F. Steegmuller, Decay of the Angel by Y. Mishima, Laurens van der Post: a portrait, The Village in the Jungle by L. Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson in Edinburgh: a visit, Wilfred Owen by J. Stallworthy, Minamata by W. E. Smith, The Great Victorian Collection by B. Moore, The Temple of Dawn by Y. Mishima.

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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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Manuscripts

Includes the following pieces published in various publications: Too Far to Go by J. Updike, U & Non-U Revisited by R. Buckle, Britain: The Future by B. Nossiter, Travels by E. Heath, Transatlantic Blues by W. Sheed, They Burn the Thistles by Y. Kamal, An American's Guide to Britain by R. Cook, Marry Me by J. Updike, The French Consul by L. Bodard, How It Was by M. Hemingway, I Hear America Swinging by P. De Vries, American Notes P.Theroux's travel journal, Conan Doyle by C. Higham, Selected Essays by J. Cary, Out of Print essay, Conversations with Kennedy by B. Bradlee, The Pleasure of the Text by R. Barthes, The Dangerous Edge by G. Lambert, The Crown Prince of Tonga essay, Bicentenary 1776 – 1976 essay, Kipling by Angus Wilson, A Little Latitude seven travel essays, on various subjects.

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Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: Winter Blood by J Roc, The Legend of Joseph Nokato by L. P. Bachmann, Murder at the Savoy by M. Sjowal, Event 1000 by D. Lavalee. Rabbit Redux by J. Updike, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by G. Sorrentino, Into Your Tent I'll Creep by P. DeVries, The Professor's Daughter by P. P. Read, In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul, The Condor Passes by S. A. Grau, The Abduction by M. Kumin, The Rose Rabbi by D. Stern, A Start in Life by A. Sillitoe, What Became of Jane Austen? by K. Amis, Tussy is Me by M. Hastings, Lighter than a Feather by D. Westheimer, Ourselves by J. Strong, The World without Women by V. Martini, From Columbus to Castro by E. Williams, The Autobiography of an Unknown South African by N. Mokgatle, Stories and Prose Poems by A. Solzhenitsyn, Way Uptown in Another World by S. Stevens, A Dutiful Daughter by T. Kenneally, The Other by T. Tryon, A Peep into the 20th Century by C. Davis, The Season of the Witch by J. L. Herlihy, Levkas Mann by H. Innes, Blue Dreams by W. Hanley, The Potlatch Run by W. Price, Love in the Ruins by W. Percy, Caliban's Filibuster by P. West, Bound to Violence by Y. Ouologuem, Ali and Nino by K. Said, Eisenhower My Eisenhower by J. Charyn, The Masked Men by A. Fakinos.

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Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: Livingstone's Companions by N. Gordimer, 18-44 by E. Leroux, The Book of Strangers by P. Dallas, Magog by A. Sinclair, Murgatreud's Empire by B. Gascoigne, Fields for President by W. C. Fields, Edith Wharton by L. Auchincloss, Open Heart by F. Buechner, I Am Elijah Thrush by J. Purdy, Disraeli in Love by M. Edelman, The Incredible Brazilian by Z. Ghosh, The Confession of a Child of the Century by T. Rogers, The Tenants by B. Malamud, Versions of Exile / Glory by V. Nabokov, Brothers by W. Cooper, Girls at War by C. Achebe, The Street by M. Richler, The World of George Orwell ed. M. Gross, All My Friends are Going to Be Strangers by L. McMurtry, Shockproof Sydney Skate by M. J. Meaker, Two by A. Moravia, Forever Flowing by V. Grossman, Mr Alfred MA by G. Friel, Prose and Poems of James Agee, ed. by R. Fitzgerald, Anthony Trollope by J. Pope-Hennessy, Face of Men by P. Palangyo, Daddy Was a Number Runner by L. Meriwether, The Safety Matches by R. Sabatier, Natives of My Person by G. Lamming, The Goodbye People by G. Lambert, Diaboliad and Other Stories by M. Bulgakov, The Book of Flights by J.M.G. Le Clezio.

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