Series 1: Notebooks

MLMSS 12202/Boxes 1-11

series

1967-2013

9677516

1.76 metres of textual material (11 boxes)

Series 1: Notebooks

Comprises notebooks relating to Cambridge University/theatre productions, and Clive James' writing including poetry, articles, essays, television work and books. Includes notebooks from Cambridge University productions 1967-1968 with posters and programmes from various productions, and student notebooks from Pembroke College, Cambridge relating to study of the classics such as Dante, Machiavelli and others

Box 1

Item 1
Top-bound duodecimo notebook labelled ‘DAY BOOK 1964’, circa 1963-1964 Daily planner, notes and contacts, possibly relating to James’s early work as a journalist in London. Reading lists and draft poems in back

Item 2
Top-bound duodecimo notebook labelled ‘RUSSIAN/ DAY BOOK’ circa 1963-1964 Notes in Russian, transcriptions from Russian authors, draft poems in back

Item 3
Top-bound duodecimo notebook labelled ‘DRAFTS/ PERSEUS/ HULL UNDERGROUND’, circa 1963 Miscellaneous notes and contacts, sketches and draft poems in back.

Item 4
Top-bound duodecimo notebook labelled ‘STENGEL’ circa early 1960s Draft poems, notes in Italian, draft short story titled ‘Death by Women’

Item 5
Duodecimo wire-bound pad 'BBC' notebook labelled ‘GIFT BOOKLET/CLIVE JAMES’, circa early 1960s Miscellaneous personal notes

Item 6
Spiral-bound octavo notebook, green and yellow covers, circa early 1960’s Draft poetry, draft short story, personal notes and lists, notes in Italian, draft for speech given at an associate’s wedding

Item 7
Quarto student paper-back notebook labelled ‘MACHIAVELLI’, and inside inscribed ‘Clive James, Pembroke’, circa 1964 –
Student notebook, notes on Niccolò Machiavelli

Item 8
Quarto student paper-back notebook labelled ‘DANTE’, circa 1964-1965 Student notes on Dante’s ‘Inferno’, lists of Italian words and verb conjugations

Item 9
Quarto student paper-back notebook labelled ‘LIMENTANI – LECTURES’ circa 1964-1965, lectures on Italian literature and politics of the Middle Ages, student notes, transcriptions from Italian in back

Item 10
Quarto student paperback notebook labelled ‘LA LINGUA’, circa 1964-1965 Glossaries of Italian words and vocabulary, draft poems, ideas and notes for Footlights in back

Item 11
Quarto student paper-back notebook labelled ‘Petrarch / Boccaccio’, circa 1964-1965 Notes and transcriptions in Italian

Item 12
Quarto student paper-back notebook labelled ‘Romanze’, circa 1964-1965 Notes on ‘Clarissa’ by Samuel Richardson and works of Henry Fielding, draft dialogue, possibly for Footlights skits, draft poems in back

Item 13
Quarto notebook, red spines with green boards, circa 1967 Notes in Ancient Greek, draft poems and lyrics in back

Item 14
Quarto notebook, red spines with green boards, circa 1967 Drafts songs, poems, and sketches for plays, transcriptions from Latin and musings on the Cambridge drama scene in back. Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material, a 1967 Pembroke Player’s ‘Comedy Smoker’, 2-Act program including cast and crew featuring Clive James and Germaine Greer, among others (see Folder 1)

Item 15
Quarto notebook, red spines with green boards, circa 1967 Draft review of Roman Polanski’s film ‘Cul de Sac’, draft songs, poems and satirical sketches.

Item 16
Quarto notebook, red spines with green boards labelled ‘THE TOWERS IN THE AURORA/DRAFT ARTICLES/SONGS/SPEECHES’, circa 1967 Draft essay on Florence, essay on filmmakers Don Siegal, Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille, draft poems in back

Item 17
Draft synopsis for two-part broadcast on the idea of ‘The Underground’, Footlights sketches, draft songs and dialogue, sketches – possibly stage directions. Contained additional inserted manuscript material relating to ‘The idea of the Underground’ (see Folder 2)

Item 18
Octavo notebook, red spine with black boards, circa 1968 Miscellaneous notes. Contained additional inserted MSS material -- Cambridge University Theatre Company (Footlights) Program

Edinburgh Fringe Festival program from 1968, poster advertising rehearsal for the 1967 Edinburgh Fringe, directed by Clive James; with music by Daryl Runswick (P4/57)

Item 19
Octavo ‘Collins ideal’ notebook, damaged with loose boards, circa 1970s Notes on Television, BBC1 and BBC2, notes on James’s long satiric poem, ‘Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage through the London Literary World’, draft poems, miscellaneous notes

Item 20
B5 ‘All Brown’ notebook labelled ‘PLAY-ARTICLE-ON TOM- RENOIR’, circa early 1970s Miscellaneous project notes, notes for journal articles

Item 21
Unlabelled B5 notebook, green boards with blue cloth spine, circa 1969 Draft workings for Footlight’s projects, miscellaneous notes

Item 22
Unlabelled notebook, green boards with blue cloth spine, circa 1969 Draft workings of ‘An Hour Late’, the 1969 Cambridge University Theatre Revue directed by Clive James which premiered at the 1969 Edinburgh Fringe. Notebook contained additional inserted MSS material relating to the 1969 production of ‘An Hour Late’ (see Folder 3)

Folder 1
Additional inserted MSS material from Cambridge student notebooks, 1964-1667 Remittance advice from the BBC including payments for broadcasts, Footlights smoking concert programs 1965-1967, typewritten lyrics for songs composed with Pete Aitkin, other Footlights ephemera

Folder 2
Additional inserted manuscript material from Cambridge student notebooks, c. 1967-1968 Note from the editor of ‘The Listener’ to Clive James, letter from Martin Dickson, Footlight’s program from the 1969 Edinburgh Fringe production of ‘An Hour Late’, song lyrics by Clive James and Pete Aitkin, letters regarding book review contracts at ‘The New Society’ and Cambridge University magazine, MSS ephemera relating to Cambridge Footlights theatre club

Box 2

Item 1
Sexto-decimo Notebook with red spine and black cloth boards Student notebook pertaining to the Cambridge English Undergraduate Tripos, circa 1964-1967

Item 2
Sexto-decimo Notebook with red spine and black cloth boards, circa 1964-1966 Student notebook pertaining to the Cambridge English Undergraduate Tripos

Item 3
Octavo Spiral-bound notebook labelled ‘Cambridge Review, Granta, B.B.C’ circa 1965 Sketches for the Footlights; contained a ‘Footlights Smoking Concert Program’ from November 1965 (see Folder 1)

Item 4
Octavo Spiral-bound notebook labelled ‘Tragedy’ circa 1964-1966 Student notebook pertaining to Cambridge English Tripos Part II – Tragedy; notes on Greek tragedy through to Shakespeare and subsequent influence on English Romanticism. Contained ‘Cambridge English Tripos Part II, Tragedy – Prescribed Reading list’ (see Folder 1)

Item 5
Octavo Spiral-bound notebook labelled ‘M.A. Cantab.’ circa 1964-1966 Student notes on Romanticism and the Romantic movement, preparation for Cambridge Undergraduate English Tripos, Part II

Item 6
Octavo Spiral-bound notebook labelled ‘Paper Wings/Novel’ Student notes on authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Stendhal

Item 7
Octavo Spiral-bound notebook labelled ‘Swift’, circa 1965 Undergraduate notes on Jonathan Swift, including notes on ‘Gulliver’s Travels’

Item 8
Spiral-bound composition notebook labelled ‘Edinburgh ’67 THINK BIG’ Draft sketches for Footlights contribution to Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1967; ephemera relating to the 1967 Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Item 9
Spiral-bound composition notebook labelled ‘Anglia TV, Footlights, New Statesman’ circa 1967 Notes and drafts on Joseph Conrad, Peter Porter, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound. Stage directions and set-design sketches for Footlights in back

Item 10
Spiral-bound composition notebook labelled ‘Footlights, Newark and Edinburgh, New Statesman, Cambridge Review, Union Paper Speech Drafts’ , circa 1967 Film reviews and essays on film, essay on criticism in the ‘Broadsheet’ review, draft poems in back

Item 11
Hardcover composition notebook, circa 1969 Essays on Kingsley Amis, Barry Humphries, Review of Phillip Larkin’s ‘All What Jazz’, ‘Notes on Kitsch’ a satirical piece after Susan Sontag’s ‘Notes on Camp’. Contained flyer for Footlights performance of ‘Late Again’ at the Hampstead Theatre Club directed by Clive James, and letter from Clive James to music publisher outlining concerns re. monies owed for sale of song lyrics, contractual obligations, and artistic representation (See Folder 1)

Item 12
Hardcover B5 composition notebook, circa 1969 Essay on “The Underground” in Britain; John Berryman’s ‘Dream Songs’, notes for Footlights production

Item 13
Hardcover B5 composition notebook titled ‘‘MacNeice’, circa 1969 Notes pertaining to BBC1 & BB2 programs, notes on DH Lawrence’s letters, and notes on Louis MacNeice

Item 14
Hardcover B5 composition notebook, circa 1969 Essay on Australian poets including James McAuley, A.D. Hope and Judith Wright, Essay on Swift, Ideas for literary projects and pitches – essay on Edmund Wilson, piece on Ezra Pound, piece on Louis MacNeice. Set design sketches, costume drawings, and poems in back

Item 15
Hardcover B5 composition notebook, circa 1969 Student Notebook: drafts of poems, student notes and a letter to Ian Hamilton.

Item 16
Octavo notebook entitled ‘TV WORK/AUSTRALIA NOTES’, circa 1970 Miscellaneous contents (illegible)

Item 17
Octavo notebook entitled ‘BD NOTES/ EW NOTES/ WEBSTERS NOTES’ circa 1970’s miscellaneous contents (illegible)

Item 18
Untitled Octavo green notebook, red spines with green boards circa 1970’s Miscellaneous contents (illegible)

Item 19
Octavo ‘Stirling’ notebook labelled ‘Production Oxford Cambridge’, circa 1968 Notes for theatre productions, cast lists, songs, untitled essay

Item 20
Octavo ‘Stirling’ notebook labelled ‘Pay-Book’, dated March 1968 Notebook pertaining to published pieces in in UK literary journals such as the TLS, Granta, New Student, New Statesman, Cambridge Review, Oz Magazine, The Observer, The Review, BBC Radio 4, sketches and notes in back

Item 21
Octavo ‘Stirling’ notebook labelled ‘NS and TLS drafts’ circa 1968 Notes for pieces commissioned in the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement

Item 22/Folder 1
Miscellaneous Papers found in notebooks, 1967-1968 Letters, notes, song lyrics, draft poems, notes on ‘Undercurrents in Italy Today’, sketches and notes for Footlights productions

Box 3

Item 1
Quarto spiral bound notebook with image of Hermes, labelled ‘Supernatural Gas’/‘Olga Floorplan’/ ‘You’ll Go Mad’ Drafts Draft verse, scansion-marked poems, stage directions for Footlights productions

Item 2
Small Quarto spiral bound notebook with image of La Domenica Del Corriere on cover Drafts poems, comedy sketches

Item 3
Octavo notebook, red cloth spine and black boards, labelled ‘DRAFTS/SONGS & SKETCHES, circa 1968 Drafts poems and songs, student notes on poetry, ‘Pembroke Smoker 1968’ draft comedy sketch, running order and cast; draft poems ‘The Night Caravelle’, ‘The Pavement Artist in Tavistock Square’, Mr Hooks’, ‘Love and Reason Correspond’, ‘The Last Hill That Shows Him All the Valley’

Item 4
Octavo notebook labelled ‘SPACE ODYSSEY ARTICLE’ circa 1968 Notes on Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, draft poems, set-designs, notes on poets John Berryman and Chaucer, ideas for Footlights sketches

Item 5
Octavo notebook labelled ‘TLS AND BBC RADIO DRAFTS’ on spine and ‘THE TIES THAT BIND YOU’ on verso, circa 1968-1969 Essay on WD Snodgrass, Barry Cole, Gertrude Stein’s ‘Lectures in America’, and a 250-word biography written by James for Granta magazine

Item 6
Octavo notebook labelled ‘TLS PIECES/ UNDERGROUND BROADCAST/REVIEW/POUND’, circa 1969 Drafts of ‘Notes on the Underground: Synopsis for a two-part broadcast’, draft of long-form essay entitled ‘The Boy Bastard’, draft lyrics and sketches in back. Contained additional inserted material relating to ‘Notes on the Underground’ broadcast, (see Folder 3)

Item 7
Octavo notebook labelled ‘FOOTLIGHTS/NEWARK/ BBC 2 /EDINBURGH’, circa 1969 Notes relating to Footlights productions and appearances at Edinburgh and on BBC 2 television

Item 8
Octavo red cloth-bound notebook labelled ‘PROJECTS’, Cambridge, circa 1974 Miscellaneous notes

Item 9
Octavo red cloth-bound notebook labelled ‘WORKBOOK’, Cambridge, circa 1974 Miscellaneous ideas, notes, sketches

Item 10
Quarto notebook with green boards and blue cloth spine labelled ‘THE GENERATION OF THE LEAVES’, Cambridge, circa 1973 Draft essays, notes, ideas for projects and sketches, and notes for ‘Peregrine Prykke’s Pilgrimage in the London Literary World’

Item 11
Quarto notebook labelled ‘PRISONERS OF CLARITY’, Cambridge, circa 1973 Drafts of literary reviews and essays, notes in Russian

Item 12
Octavo ‘Deluxe and Superfine’ notebook labelled ‘BRILLIANT CREATURES/THE ANALOGY’, circa 1980 Draft verse, miscellaneous notes

Item 13
Octavo ‘Deluxe and Superfine’ notebook labelled ‘BIARRITZ NOTEBOOK 1981’ Notes on Craig Raine, translations from Franz Werner and Erich Kastner, notes on poetry of the Nazi era, draft verse

Item 14
Octavo ‘Deluxe and Superfine’ notebook labelled ‘THE GENERATION OF THE LEAVES’ circa 1981 Miscellaneous notes

Item 15
Small octavo ‘Bella Copia’ notebook labelled ‘BRIDGE TO THE GRACES’, circa 1980’s Draft novel/literary work (illegible)

Item 16
Small octavo ‘Bella Copia’ notebook labelled ‘THE REVIEW/ TIN PAN ALLEY’, circa 1980’s – Essay on Tin Pan Alley music publishers and songwriters

Item 17
Red octavo ‘Bella Copia’ notebook labelled ‘ESTETICA’, circa 1980’s Transcription and notes in Italian

Item 18
Unlabelled, seafoam green cloth-bound Octavo notebook, circa 1980’s Calligraphy, poems, draft stories, and essays

Item 19
Yellow ‘Clairefontaine’ notebook labelled ‘BIARRITZ 1984’ Poems, draft verse

Item 20
Black ‘Ryman’ Octavo notebook circa 1980’s Notes on TV, notes for television reviews

Item 21
Blue ‘Challenge’ Octavo notebook labelled ‘FIRST NIJINSKY NOTES’, circa 1980’s Miscellaneous notes for Nijinsky piece

Item 22
Quarto notebook labelled ‘NIJINSKY DRAFT/ JUDAS PRIEST’, circa 1985 Essay on ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, essays on Bernard Levin, ‘Catacomb Graffiti’ and a long form piece on Hamlet, miscellaneous notes on television and film subjects

Item 23
Quarto notebook labelled ‘FALLING TOWARDS ENGLAND/ MRS PEPYS’, circa 1985 Notes towards an unrealized project about Elisabeth Pepys, wife of Samuel Pepys, and untitled draft in back (possibly ‘Falling towards England’)

Folder 1
Poems by Clive James, 1968 ‘The Night Caravelle’, ‘The Pavement Artist In Tavistock Square’, ‘Mr Hooks’, ‘Love And Reason Correspond’, ‘The Last Hill That Shows Him All The Valley’

Folder 2
Additional inserted manuscript notes, found in notebook Items 20-23

Folder 3
Additional inserted manuscript notes, found in notebook Item 6.

Folder 4
Additional inserted manuscript notes, relating to ‘The Oxford Cambridge Review’

Folder 5
Additional inserted manuscript notes, found in notebook Item 8

Folder 6
Additional inserted manuscript notes, found in notebook Item 22

Box 4

Item 1
Octavo notebook labelled ‘THE WORLD PROCESSOR’, circa 1973 Miscellaneous notes, draft poems

Item 2
Octavo notebook labelled ‘RUSSIA AND RUSSIAN/ HYPOCHONDRIAC ACT III’, circa 1973 Notes on Russia, Russian cities and culture, draft poems

Item 3
Octavo notebook labelled ‘CITY OF GLASS/ APPARATUS CRITICUS’, circa 1976 Draft essay on photography, draft essays (illegible)

Item 4
Octavo notebook labelled ‘WORKBOOK…NEW YORK’, circa 1977 Miscellaneous notes (illegible)

Item 5
Octavo notebook labelled ‘WORK 1977’ Notes for journalism and criticism, notes on television and film

Item 6
Octavo notebook labelled ‘CZECHOSLOVAKIA/FILM WORK’ circa 1978 Notes on film and television, contained additional inserted manuscript notes relating to contract for criticism supplied to ‘The Observer’, 1979-1980 (see Folder 1)

Item 7
Untitled Octavo notebook, red spine with black boards, circa 1979 Notes in Japanese, draft essay on Larkin

Item 8
Green vigesimo-quarto notebook labelled ‘CHINA 1982/ NOTES AND DRAFTS’, circa 1982 Notes pertaining to travel in China, Hong Kong and Delphi

Item 9
Sexto-decimo notebook labelled ‘JERUSALEM/ JUNE 1983’ Notes pertaining to travel in Israel

Item 10
Octavo notebook labelled ‘WORKBOOK AND ‘BB’ BIOGRAPHIES’, circa 1980-1986 Notes on television, draft poems, and miscellaneous notes

Item 11
Octavo notebook labelled ‘NOTES FOR CLOUDS/POEMS/WORK’, circa1980 Poems, miscellaneous notes on culture and television, draft essay on Evelyn Waugh

Item 12
Octavo notebook labelled ‘TITLES & PROJECTS - WORK’, circa 1980 List of projects and ideas for titles (both published and unrealised), miscellaneous notes on culture, draft essays and notes relating to television

Item 13
Octavo notebook labelled ‘WORK – FEB -1980’, circa 1980 Draft essays and draft introduction to ‘The Crystal Bucket’, miscellaneous notes on culture

Item 14
Blue octavo notebook labelled ‘VIDEO+ WORK/JAN 1984/VIDEO HEAVEN’, circa 1984 Draft essays on film and television, draft poems

Item 15
Blue octavo notebook labelled ‘Work begun in October 1984, Portugal’ Draft essays, notes and research from period spent in Portugal

Item 16
Octavo notebook labelled ‘WORK – MAR -1985’ Draft essays, miscellaneous notes (illegible)

Item 17
Untitled Octavo notebook, red spine and black boards, circa 1986 Draft essays, notes on television, draft poems

Item 18
Octavo notebook labelled, ‘WORK NOV 1986’ Drafts for piece in the New Yorker about Robert Hughes’s ‘The Fatal Shore’, notes in Japanese, essay on Hugh Hefner in Los Angeles, draft poems, letter to an editor (See Folder 1)

Folder 1
Additional inserted MSS material found in notebook Items 1-18, circa 1973-1986 –
Including contractual correspondence from literary agents, memorandums from television production teams, persona letters and correspondence addressed to Clive James

Box 6

Item 1
Pink spiral-bound notebook, labelled ‘ESSAYS 1981’ Notes for essays and reviews, including draft of ‘Pictures in Silver Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes’ which later appeared in James’ book ‘Snake Charmers in Texas’

Item 2
Green spiral-bound notebook labelled ‘WORK - OCTOBER 1981’ Notes for reviews, draft songs, draft essay on travel and travel writing. Notebook contained additional inserted MSS material relating to classical music and television (see Folder 1)

Item 3
Pink spiral-bound octavo notebook, labelled ‘WORK- JANUARY 1981’ Notes for published reviews and television criticism

Item 4
Green spiral-bound octavo notebook, labelled ‘ESSAYS/WORK - MAY 1982’ Draft essays on CJ Brennan and Eugène François Vidocq – essays later published in James’ book ‘Snakecharmers in Texas’ as ‘Elaborate Brute: On Christopher Brennan’ and ‘’Tis Vidocq!’ Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material (see Folder 1)

Item 5
Green spiral-bound octavo notebook, labelled ‘SEPT 1982/ Thatcher in China’ Draft essay on the subject of Margaret Thatcher’s visit to China, essay later appeared as ‘Mrs T in China - 1: The Dragon Lady Flies East’ in James’ book ‘Flying Visits’

Item 6
Green spiral-bound octavo notebook, labelled ‘LWT/ TC PROG DRAFTS 1982’ Draft essays, mainly television criticism

Item 7
Green spiral-bound octavo notebook, labelled ‘SERIALS 1982’ Draft essay of ‘How Montale earned his living’ which later appeared in the London Review of Books, Vol. 5 No. 3,17 February 1983

Item 8
Purple spiral-bound octavo notebook, labelled ‘WORK - JUNE 1983’ Draft of ‘Postcard from Jerusalem’ later published in ‘Flying Visits’

Item 9
Pink spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘WORK - JULY 1983’ Draft essays and poems

Item 10
Purple spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘ELVIS COSTELLO DRAFTS’ – Draft essay on Barry Humphries, later published as ‘Approximately in the vicinity of Barry Humphries’ in the London Review of Books, Vol. 5 No.18, 6 October 1983

Item 11
Green spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘SNAKECHARMERS IN TEXAS’ Draft introduction of ‘Glued To The Box’, James’ book of television criticism

Item 12
Green spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘WORK’ Draft essay of ‘Wedding of the Century’ from ‘Glued to the Box’, notes in back on television criticism

Item 13
Green spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘LWT DRAFTS’ Draft essay, poems and television criticism notes.

Item 14
Yellow spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘WORK’, circa 1981 Draft poems, notes for a piece on John McEnroe, later published as ‘Them Again’ in ‘Glued to the Box’, notes for television reviews

Item 15
Yellow spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘LAS VEGAS, circa 1981 Draft of transcript for 1982 TV Movie, ‘Clive James Live in Las Vegas.’ Notebook contains preparation for a documentary James made on Las Vegas and Ceasar’s Palace Casino, when the Formula One World Championship motor race was held in the city

Item 16
Yellow spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘VIDEO’, circa 1981 Draft essay on ‘VIDCOM’ at Cannes, essay on video rentals, draft essay on Phillip Larkin

Item 17
Yellow spiral-bound octavo notebook labelled ‘GRAN PRIX YEAR DRAFT’, circa 1981 Second notebook pertaining to 1981 Las Vegas Gran Prix at Ceasar’s Palace Casino.

Item 18
Yellow spiral-bound notebook labelled ‘PRINCE CHARLES NOTES – FOOTNOTES’, circa 1981 Notes for James’ long published poem, ‘Charles Charming’s Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne’.

Item 19
Untitled yellow spiral-bound octavo notebook, circa 1981 Draft essays, notes and draft letter in back

Item 20
Brown cloth-bound duodecimo diary, circa 1990s Draft poems

Item 21
Brown octavo notebook with floral cover, circa 1990s Notes in Japanese and draft poem

Item 22
Brown octavo notebook with Hokusai waterfall cover, circa 1990s Notes in Japanese

Item 23
Brown octavo notebook with Hokusai koi cover, circa 1990s Notes in Japanese and draft television reviews

Item 24
Brown octavo notebook with floral cover, labelled ‘WORK 23 September 1990’ Notes in Japanese and miscellaneous notes

Item 25
Brown octavo notebook with Hokusai waterfall cover, circa 1990s Notes in Japanese. Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material in Japanese (see Folder 2)

Item 26
Black medium octavo ruled notebook, circa 1990 Notes in Japanese. Notebook contained additional inserted MSS material relating to the 1990 production of "Postcard from Shanghai", a travel documentary series written and presented by Clive James (see Folder 1)

Folder 1
Additional inserted MSS material found in notebooks 1-24, 26, including material relating to the 1990 production of "Postcard from Shanghai", a travel documentary series written and presented by Clive James

Folder 2
Additional inserted manuscript material found in notebook Item 25, notes in Japanese

Box 7

Item 1
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘Lacrimae 1996’, Draft poems, including draft of ‘Sunt lacrimae rerum’; draft essay on the Melbourne Cup; draft review of ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’ by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, later published as ‘Hitler's Unwitting Exculpator’ in The New Yorker 22 April 1996. Draft of ‘Europe: An Introduction’ published in the print edition of The New Yorker magazine, 28 April & 5 May 1997. Draft introduction to the 1997 Picador Edition of ‘At the Pillars of Hercules’. Draft of ‘The Casanova Complex’ which appeared in the print edition of the New Yorker magazine, 25 August & 1 September 1997. Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material (see Folder 1)

Item 2
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘Work October 1999’ Draft poems, draft speech given at unspecified university, draft essay on Australian art and figures such as Robert Hughes, Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries. Draft essay of ‘The Poetry of Edmund Wilson, later published in ‘At the Pillars of Hercules’, draft introduction to James’ 2001 anthology ‘Reliable Essays’

Item 3
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘The Book About the Sentence’ Draft manuscript (unidentifiable)

Item 4
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘BIRTHDAY GIRL’ Notes in Japanese, draft essay on Stevie Smith, later published as ‘Stevie Smith: Not Drowning but Waving’ in ‘The Dreaming Swimmer’. Draft review of ‘He that Played the Fool: The Life of Kenneth Tynan by Kathleen Tynan’. Draft essay ‘The Australian Poetic Republic’ on Australian poets featuring commentary on A.D. Hope, Les Murray, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Bruce Dawe, Peter Porter, Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright and Les Murray. Notebook contained additional inserted MSS material relating to ‘Writers Against Aids’ and fundraising benefit, at which James was invited to participate (see Folder 1)

Item 5
Cloth-bound purple octavo notebook labelled ‘Diodes’, circa early 2000s, Draft MSS of James’ memoir ‘The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years’

Item 6
Red cloth-bound octavo notebook, circa 2002, Draft introduction to ‘As Of This Writing: The Essential Essays 1968-2002’, draft prose and essays on various subjects

Item 7
Black octavo ‘Seagull’ notebook, Draft prose, notes on Australia. Draft verse in back

Item 8
Red octavo feint-ruled notebook, circa 1983, Draft of ‘Postcard from Munich’, draft of ‘Ku Fu Wit’ – a piece on Bruce Lee that appeared in ‘The Observer’, February 1983

Item 9
Red octavo notebook black boards with red spine, Notes in Japanese, draft manuscript (unidentifiable). Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material, notes in Japanese (see Folder 2)

Item 10
Octavo notebook black boards with red spine, circa 1999, Draft essay on Judith Wright, draft poems. Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material (see Folder 2)

Item 11
Octavo notebook black boards with red spine, circa 1999-2000 –
Draft manuscript entitled ‘STALKER’, draft poems and verse, lists of personal contacts

Item 12
Notebook, black boards with red spine, labelled ‘EDINBURGH SPEECH’, circa 2000, Draft speech delivered at Edinburgh, draft letters, draft essay on Australian poetry, notes for James’ TV series ‘Talking in the Library’

Item 13
Blue octavo cloth-bound notebook labelled ‘Work January 2006’ Draft poems and prose, draft essay on Karl Kraus, draft essay on giving up smoking later broadcast as ‘Smoking the Memory: on giving up smoking’ on BBC Radio

Item 14
A5 stapled notebook with fish patterned cover, circa 2007-2009, Draft of ‘Reflections on a Diamond Skull: on corporate art’ broadcast on the BBC network in 2007. Miscellaneous notes

Item 15
Crimson cloth-bound duo-decimo notebook, labelled ‘2010’, Draft poems

Folder 1
Additional inserted manuscript material found in notebook Item 4 relating to “Writers Against Aids” fundraising benefit which James was invited to participate, and letter from AIDS ‘Frontliners’ activist group

Folder 2
Additional inserted manuscript material found in notebook Items 9 and 10

Box 8

Item 1
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘Gore ot Uma’ in Russian, a satire on Russian aristocratic society by Alexander Griboyedov

Item 2
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘BBC’ Notes and MSS for television work with the BBC

Item 3
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘Text Production’ Draft poetry and prose

Item 4
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘Take It Easy, Sweetheart’ Draft manuscript of James’ 1996 keynote address at the Melbourne Writers Festival titled 'The Idea of a National Culture'

Item 5
Black octavo notebook with red spine labelled ‘WORK May 2000’ Notes and drafts on the Sydney Olympic Opening Ceremony, draft essay on David Malouf, draft essay on Michael Davie

Item 6

Unlabelled black octavo notebook with red spine. Notes in Russian, notes on Roland Barthes, draft essay on Richard Nixon in back

Item 7
Purple Clairefontaine notebook containing lists, contacts, and personal notes

Item 8
Spiral-bound Emma Bridgewater notebook, Notes on television

Item 9
Dotted spiral-bound Emma Bridgewater notebook, Notes on television

Item 10
Paisley cloth-bound notebook, circa November 1970, inscribed by Clive James, ‘Drafts left, notes right’

Item 11
Purple striped octavo cloth-bound notebook, circa 2006, Lists and miscellaneous notes

Item 12
Octavo dotted cloth-bound notebook, circa 2006. Draft manuscript possibly of ‘Prelude to the Aftermath’ covering James’ time in British mainstream television journalism from 1982-2000

Item 13
Black Seagull notebook, titled ‘re: UK Election’ Notes on the 2001 General Election covered for The Independent

Item 14
Black Seagull notebook, titled ‘re: UK Election’ Notes on the 2001 General Election covered for The Independent

Item 15
Black Seagull notebook, titled ‘re: UK Election’ Notes on the 2001 General Election covered for The Independent

Item 16
Moleskine notebook, labelled ‘Web Notes’ circa 2005, Poems and miscellaneous notes

Item 17
Leather-bound Aspinal notebook, circa 2009, Poems and miscellaneous notes

Item 18
Paper notebook titled ‘Notes on Cezanne’ Notes

Item 19
Black spiral-bound notebook with blue spine, 100x175mm, circa 2013, Draft poems and miscellaneous notes

Item 20
Black spiral-bound notebook with blue spine, Television viewing notes

Item 21
Black octavo Ryman ruled notebook, circa 2010’s, Draft poems and transcriptions

Box 9

Item 1
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘BRITTANIA CHATSKY NOTES’, circa 1973, draft manuscript of ‘Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster: A Political Poem in Rhyming Couplets’ Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material relating to NSW Conservatorium of Music lunchtime concert program (see Folder 1)

Item 2
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘POEM NOTES /ONE /PLANS /BIOGS’, circa 1974,
Personal index and notes on various writers, artists, philosophers and musicians

Item 3
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘PRINCE CHARLES’, circa 1975, manuscript of ‘Charles Charming’s Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne: A Royal Poem in Rhyming Couplets’ Notebook contained additional inserted mss material relating to ‘Charles Charming’ manuscript (see Folder 1)

Item 4
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘COMO NB’, circa 1975, Notes and projects James was working on in Italy, September 1975

Item 5
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘FLICK FLACK’, circa 1975, manuscript of ‘The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media: A Moral Poem in Rhyming Couplets’

Item 6
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘PLAY/ THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT’, circa 1975, unpublished play manuscript

Item 7
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘Berlin December 2002’ Draft poems Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material (see Folder 1)

Item 8
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘POLITICS/ BRITANNIA BRIGHT TWO’, circa 1973, Further draft manuscript of ‘Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster: A Political Poem in Rhyming Couplets’

Item 9
Quarto Flying Eagle notebook labelled ‘DANTE’, circa early 2000s, manuscripts of James’ translation of Dante’s ‘Inferno', later published 2013

Item 10
Unlabelled quarto Flying Eagle notebook, circa early 2000s, Second notebook MSS of James’ translation of Dante’s ‘Inferno', later published 2013

Folder 1
Additional inserted manuscript material found in notebook Items 1-10

Box 10

Item 1
Quarto notebook, black boards with brown spine, dated 28 March 1980. Draft poems

Item 2
Quarto notebook, black boards with brown spine, circa 1984, Draft poems

Item 3
Quarto notebook, black boards with red spine, circa 1986, Draft piece on Joseph Brodsky Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material relating to correspondence with Channel 4 Television about ‘Book Choice’ episode on Joseph Brodsky (see Folder 1)

Item 4
Quarto notebook, black boards with red spine, circa 1988, Notes and drafts, including draft manuscript of ‘Last Will and Testament’, review of ‘The Drowned and the Saved’ by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal, which first appeared The New Yorker, 23 May 1988, later compiled in James’ ‘The Dreaming Swimmer’

Item 5
Quarto notebook, black boards with red spine, labelled FOCA, circa 1986, Notes pertaining to James’ TV documentary about the 1986 Formula 1 Season, ‘All Over Down Under’

Item 6
Quarto notebook, black boards with red spine, labelled ‘San Francisco’ circa 1987, Notes on San Franciso, likely draft for the 1987 TV special ‘Clive James and the Heroes of San Francisco’ Notes on Japan and notes in Japanese Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material – correspondence from the New Yorker accounts department (see Folder 1)

Item 7
Quarto notebook, black boards with brown spine, circa 1998-2002, Draft poems Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material relating to Welcome Stranger Ltd (see Folder 1)

Item 8
Quarto notebook, black boards with brown spine, labelled ‘The Hummingbird Cadenza’, circa 2004, Draft poems Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material relating to fees for James’ television and speaking appearances, and poster advertisement for Argentine Tango lessons in Sydney, NSW

Item 9
Quarto notebook, black boards with brown spine, circa 1984, Draft manuscript of longform poem Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material (see Folder 1)

Item 10
Quarto notebook, black boards with brown spine, labelled ‘Dante’, circa early 2000s, manuscript of James’ translation of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ later published 2013

Item 11
Quarto notebook, black boards with red spine, labelled ‘San Francisco’ circa 1987, Second notebook pertaining to San Francisco, likely draft for the 1987 TV special ‘Clive James and the Heroes of San Francisco’

Folder 1
Additional inserted manuscript material found in notebook Items 1-10

Box 11

Item 1
Notebook labelled ‘DANTE/ PARADISO CONTINUED’, circa early 2000s, manuscript of James’ translation of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ later published 2013 Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material: draft poems, speech on democracy (See Folder 1)

Item 2
Blue clothbound Notebook labelled ‘BOMBAY’, circa 1994, Draft manuscript for 'Clive James' Postcard from Bombay' TV episode, aired 1995 Notebook contained additional inserted manuscript material relating to the ‘Postcards’ series (see Folder 1)

Item 3
Red patterned Ring binder labelled ‘REQUIEM’, Draft manuscript

Item 4
Folder containing loose foolscap manuscript screenplay or theatrical work Date unknown

Folder 1
Additional inserted manuscript material found in notebook Items 1-4

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