Manuscripts

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

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1980-2000
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.

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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Essays and reviews: various drafts

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Includes the following pieces published in collections or periodicals: Salvador by J. Didion, The Ordnance Survey Atlas of Great Britain (review), Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, William Simpson, The Notebooks of Henry James ed. L. Edel, Anatomy of Restlessness by B. Chatwin, Foreward to The Sunday Book of Travel, The Writing Life: Writing Travel.

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Essays and reviews: various drafts

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Majority of these pieces written in Uganda: Pygmies, Writing Waldo, Letter from America, East African Paradoxes, Letter from Lisbon, The Third World's War, Bibliography, Friends in Africa, Concern for Rhodesia, Fishing in Winter, Soldiers and Kings, Nigeria, Not Yet a Nation, A Dignitary in Lagos, A Leap Backwards, Biographical Note, A Few nights and Days by M S Dipoko, Rapid Transit; book proposal, Disappointed Guests by H. Tajfel, Breaking the Silence by W. J. Weatherby, The Bees in Banda's Bonnet, In Defense of Cowardice, Verbal and Baubles, Incident in a Cookie Factory: Rhodesia, No Easy Task by A. Kachingwe.

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Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: The Black Book by L. Durrell, The Honorary Consul by G. Greene, Lee Kwan Yew by T. J. S. George, The Journal of Andrew Bihaly ed. A. Tuttle, Confessions of a Future Scotsman by P. Reb, The Island by R. Russell, A Sparrow in the Snow by S. Darel, The Queen of a Distant Country by J. Braine, A Dictionary of New English by C. L. Barnhart, Spring Snow by Y. Mishima, Paradise Lost by J. Collier, Holy Man by G. Daws, What's the Difference by N. Moss, American Mischief by A. Lelchuk, Madhouse by R. Goulet, Forever Panting by P. De Vries, Getting Married by A. Strindberg, Passing Brave by W. Polk, The Bird of Night by S. Hill, All Heaven in a Rage by M. Duffy, A Woman of Character by J. Gloag, The Wooden Shepherdess by R. Hughes, Experiment at Proto by P. Oakes, Catholics by B. Moore, Outpost by M. Balka, Mister Doctor Blo by J. Tyne, Any Number Can Play by D. Bloodworth, Without a Stitch in Time by P. De Vries, The Camerons by R. Crichton, Love and Napalm by J. Ballard, The Wilby Conspiracy by P. Driscoll, The John Collier Reader by J. Collier, BBC Books of the Week by P. Theroux.

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Essays and reviews: various drafts

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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

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Includes the following pieces published in various publications: The Optimist's Daughter by E. Welty, Meet Me in the Green Glen by R. P. Warren, Presences, by P. Taylor, The Mortgaged Heart by C. McCullers, The Third Life of Grange Copeland by A. Walker, A Walk to the River by W. Hoffman, Journey to Joedel by G. Owen, The Camberwell Beauty by V. S. Pritchett, Hers by A. Alvarez, Which Tribe Do You Belong To? by A. Moravia, The Conservationist by N. Gordimer, The Glory of the Hummingbird by P. De Vries, Lord Rochester's Monkey by G. Greene, McAuslan in the Rough by G. M. Fraser, Pictures from an Institution by R. Jarrell, The World of O Henry: 4 Vols of Stories, Theophilus North by T. Wilder, Sixties Going on Seventies by N. Sayre, Spreading Fires by J. Knowles, Kerouac by A. Charters, My Days by R. K. Narayan, Paradise Lost by E. Rothschild, Writing a Novel by J. Braine, Pentimento by L. Hellman, A Question of Power by B. Head, Alive by P. P. Read, The Fearful Void by G. Moorhouse, The African Continent: The Atlas of Africa ed. T. Monod, The World of Apples by J. Cheever, The Foundation Pit by A. Platonov, The Bridge of Beyond by A. Schwartz-Bart, Darkness in Summer by T. Kaiko, Pasmore by D. Story, Challenge by V. Sackville-West, Banda by P. Short, All the King's Men by R. P. Warren, The Chief Among Us by P. Theroux, Gordon Williams by P. Theroux.

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