Manuscripts
Notes and various drafts
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First draft
Manuscripts
Folder 1 includes two versions of the beginning; this draft does not include Part Five.
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Miscellaneous essays: notes and various drafts
Manuscripts
Includes the following pieces: On Travel, Martha's Vineyard, Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul, Rimbaud in Harar [four drafts].
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Heartache: notes and various drafts
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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The Furies: notes and various drafts
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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Essays and reviews: various drafts
Manuscripts
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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