Series 2: Manuscript material relating to publications

MLMSS 12202/Boxes 12-15

series

1974-1994

9677517

Series 2: Manuscript material relating to publications

Includes drafts, notes relating to James' autobiographical series Unreliable memoirs and other published and unpublished material including plays, short stories, essays and poems

Box 12

Folder 1
Manuscript of ‘Pericles - a vertical take-off: a teleplay adapted from William Shakespeare’ by Chester and Clive James. Stamp of E.J. Carnell, Literary Agent, on front of manuscript

Folder 2
Manuscript of ‘Glued to the Box’, including editorials directives from Jonathan Cape to the printer. Typed introduction with edits by Clive James. Facsimile copies of all printed television criticism that Clive James wrote for The Observer

Folder 3
Manuscript of ‘Charles Charming’s Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne: A Royal Poem in Rhyming Couplets’

Folder 4
Manuscript of ‘Other Passports: Poems 1958-1985’ with typed introduction by Clive James

Folder 5
Manuscript of ‘Peregrine Prykke’s Pilgrimage through the London Literary World’

Folder 6
Manuscript of ‘Chatsky’ by A.S. Griboyedov, an English Version in rhyming couplets by Clive James

Folder 7
Facsimile Manuscript of ‘Chatsky’ by A.S. Griboyedov, an English Version in rhyming couplets by Clive James, with a letter from John Russell Brown, head of the script department at the National Theatre

Folder 8
Manuscript of ‘The Metropolitan Critic: Non-Fiction 1968-1973’

Folder 9
Manuscript of ‘The Autumn Riot’s End’, poems by Clive James, marked ‘Pembroke College, Cambridge’

Box 13

Folder 1
Manuscript of ‘Flying Visits’ with editorial markups by an editor at Jonathan Cape

Folder 2
Manuscript of ‘The Garden of Delight’

Folder 3
Manuscript of ‘Charles Charming’s Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne’

Folder 4
Manuscript of ‘Clouds’ script

Folder 5
Manuscript Script of ‘Moliere – The Hypochondriac’ with letters to Peter Hall and John Russel Brown at The Barbican

Folder 6
Facsimile Manuscript Script of ‘Moliere– The Hypochondriac’

Folder 7
Manuscript of ‘Nijinsky’

Folder 8
Manuscript of ‘Kate’s Thief’, short story by Clive James

Folder 9
Part 1: Manuscript of ‘The Man from Japan, or, Brrm! Brrm!, or Perfume At Anchorage: a novel by Clive James’

Folder 10
Part 2: Manuscript of ‘The Man from Japan, or, Brrm! Brrm!, or Perfume At Anchorage: a novel by Clive James’

Folder 11
Manuscript of ‘Summer Will Come Again’ by John Lane, with letter by John Lane to Clive James asking editorial advice, and 11 black and white photographs of wartime Sydney (enclosed)

Box 14

Folder 1
Facsimile typeset Manuscript of novel ‘Brilliant Creatures’ provided by Jonathan Cape literary agency

Folder 2
Typewritten Manuscript of ‘Brilliant Creatures’ with edits by Clive James

Folder 3
Typeset Manuscript of ‘Brilliant Creatures’, with markups by James’ editor at Jonathan Cape

Folder 4
Script of the television adaptation of ‘Brilliant Creatures’ by Clive James, adapted by Malcom Bradbury

Folder 5
Manuscript of ‘The Dreaming Swimmer’, Non-Fiction 1987-1992

Box 15

Folder 1
Typeset Manuscript of ‘The Dreaming Swimmer’ by Clive James

Folder 2
Typeset Manuscript of ‘The Dreaming Swimmer’ by Clive James

Folder 3
Facsimile Manuscript of ‘Falling Towards England’ with markups by Clive James; letters from Caroline Michel, editor at Jonathan Cape, London

Folder 4
Typewritten Manuscript of ‘May week was in June’ with markups by Clive James

Folder 5
Typeset Manuscript of ‘May week was in June’ with markups by Clive James

Folder 6
Manuscript of ‘From the Land of Shadows’ with editorial markups

Reproduction Restricted: All papers may be consulted in the library, but any publication of them must be with the permission of the author (or the literary estate). These conditions expire 70 years after the death of the author, in accordance with standard UK copyright law.