Manuscripts

Essays and reviews: various drafts

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1981-2006
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: various drafts

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: Hawaii, Bruce Chatwin, Warm Dogs, Cape Cod, Diana by C. Fuentes, Introduction to Three African Novels, Me and my Book, Introduction of An Impossible Book, Travel Epiphanies.

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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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Essays and reviews: various drafts

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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.

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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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Reviews and essays: various drafts

Manuscripts

Includes the following pieces published in various publications: Orwell's Fiction, Madder Music by P. De Vries, My Oxford by A. Thwaite, My Cambridge by R. Hayman, Baggage Punch, Monsignor Quixote by G. Greene, God's Grace by B. Malamud, A Traveller's Life by E. Newby, Pieces of Hate essay for collection, Souls and Bodies by D. Lodge, Fortune's Hostages by C. Moorehead, O Beloved Kids by R. Kipling, The Fetishist by M. Tournier, V S Naipaul Telegraph, Huckleberry Finn by M. Twain, Yorkshire Ripper Sunday Times, W H Hudson by R. Tomalin, Creation by G. Vidal, The Daniells by M. Archer, Going to Extremes by J. McGinnis, A Season in Paradise by B. Breytenbach, Saki Complete Works, African Trio by G. Simenon, Man and the Natural World by K. Thomas, Northwest Passage by W. de Roos, V.S. Pritchett 27 April.

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