Gordimer mss., 1934-1991
Papers, 1934-1991, of Nadine Gordimer at the Lilly Library, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana
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Summary Information
Repository
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Indiana University
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Creator
Gordimer, Nadine.
TitleGordimer mss.,1934-1991
Collection No.
LMC 2355
Extent
ca. 6700 items
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
Consists of the papers of South African
author and Nobel prize winner Nadine Gordimer. The correspondence is mostly with her
colleagues, literary agents and publishers, including magazines such as
The New Yorker where many of her short stories first
appeared. There are draft and final versions of Gordimer's stories, articles, book
reviews, novels, short story collections, speeches, etc. The notebooks contain story
ideas, working notes, as well as dates of completion and publication for some of the
stories. Completing the collection is a diary kept by Gordimer when she was eleven years
old.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa in 1923. At age 13 she began her writing
career, her first writings appearing in the children's section of the Johannesburg
Sunday Express. Since then she has written novels and countless short stories, articles,
etc. which have been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide. Many of her works
reflect the political and social dilemmas of living under apartheid in South Africa and
consequently, several of her books have been banned in that country until very
recently.
Among her numerous awards are the Booker Prize for Fiction (1974), Modern Language
Association of America award (1982), and the Premio Malaparte prize (1987). In 1991
Gordimer's entire body of work was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has
been decorated Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) and has received
honorary degrees from such institutions as Harvard and Yale Universities.
Apart from her many achievements in writing, Gordimer has been visiting professor and
lecturer at several American universities. She is a founder and executive member of the
Congress of South African Writers and has encouraged and supported new writers,
especially young African authors and poets.
Arrangement/Organization
Organized in the following series: I. Correspondence, II. Writings, III. Diaries and
Notebooks, IV. Miscellaneous, V. Additions.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of the papers of South African author and Nobel prize winner Nadine Gordimer.
The correspondence is mostly with her colleagues, literary agents and publishers,
including magazines such as
The New Yorker where many of
her short stories first appeared. There are draft and final versions of Gordimer's
stories, articles, book reviews, novels, short story collections, speeches, etc. The
notebooks contain story ideas, working notes, as well as dates of completion and
publication for some of the stories. Completing the collection is a diary kept by
Gordimer when she was eleven years old.
Correspondents include: Cyrilly Abels, Chinua Achebe, Roger Angell, Frank Rosslyn
Bradlow, Thelma Gutsche, Trevor Huddleston, Roland Joffe, George William Lanning, Bernth
Lindfors, Frank McShane, Herbert Mitgang, Alan Stewart Paton, Es'kia Mphahlele, Michael
Scammell, Harvey Shapiro, Rowland James Smith, James Stern, Efua Theodora Morgue
Sutherland, Paul Theroux, Per Erik Wastberg, Katherine Sergeant Angell White, and Helen
Yglesias.
Manuscripts Index in the library includes entries at item level.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online
catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the
catalog using these terms.
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Names
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Gordimer, Nadine.
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Achebe, Chinua.
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Angell, Roger.
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Bradlow, Frank Rosslyn, 1913-
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Gutsche, Thelma.
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MacShane, Frank.
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Paton, Alan.
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Sutherland, Efua Theodora.
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Theroux, Paul.
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White, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
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Yglesias, Helen.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Purchase. 1993.
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons
from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their
visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Gordimer mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Series:
Correspondence, 1948-1989
(Box 1 - Box 4, folder 24)
The correspondence is divided into a chronological file dated 1948-1989 and an
alphabetical file consisting chiefly of Gordimer's correspondence with literary
agents and publishers. Among the correspondents are: Cyrilly Abels, Chinua Achebe,
Roger Angell, Frank Rosslyn Bradlow, Thelma Gutsche, Trevor Huddleston, Roland
Joffé, George William Lanning, Bernth Lindfors, Frank MacShane, Herbert Mitgang,
Es'kia Mphahlele, Alan Stewart Paton, Michael Scammell, Harvey Shapiro, Rowland
James Smith, James Stern, Efua Theodora Morgue Sutherland, Paul Theroux, Per Erik
Wästberg, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Helen Yglesias. Consult the Manuscripts
Index for dates of letters of individual correspondents.
Box 1
1948 - 1973
Box 2
1974 - 1989
A.P. Watt & Son (literary agent - UK), 1965-1978
(6 folders)
Curtis Brown Ltd., 1960-1975
(5 folders)
Box 3
The New Yorker, 1950-1978 , 1987-1988
(12 folders)
Russell & Volkening, Inc. (literary agent - US), 1956-1980
(9 folders)
Satenstein, Sidney (literary agent - US), 1950-1961
(9 folders)
Shirley Collier Agency (literary agent - US), 1961-1978
(3 folders)
Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1951-1959
(4 folders)
Box 4
Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1953-1976
(6 folders)
Viking Press, Inc., 1958-1985
royalty statements
(14 folders)
Series:
Writings
(Box 4, folder 21 - Box 15, folder 80)
Includes early writings, articles, book reviews, novels, scripts, short stories,
short story collections, speeches, etc. All annotations, amendments , and
corrections in Gordimer's hand, unless otherwise noted. Descriptions of individual
writings were taken from Gordimer's inventory. Arranged in alphabetical order by
title after the Early Writings which are arranged by date. Consult Index to Titles
for complete listing of locations for each title.
Box 4
Early Writings; Abroad - Black Interpreters
Box 4
Folder 21
Early Writings:
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The Quest for Sun Gold - first
published story, photocopy from The Sunday Express, Johannesburg,
June 13,
1937
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The Valley Legend - tear sheet from
Children's Sunday Express, Sept. 18, 1938
- editor's mention (Auntie Ban Writes) of other stories published
by Gordimer in same newspaper
- two school exercise books with reviews of "Books read in
1938"
Box 4
Folder 22
The First Circle [play], 1944[?].
Won Drama Award and was performed by Johannesburg Repertory Society.
Carbon copy
Box 4
Folder 23
Unfinished and untitled novel, written before 1946.
Typed fragment
Box 4
Folder 24
University writings. University of the Witwatersrand, 1946 .
Ten essays and class exercises, with teacher's comments and marks
awarded.
Box 4
Folder 25
Short stories, written before 1950:
At three o'clock in the morning someone wakes
me
[first line];
Babe;
The Hero;
It Might
Happen This Way...
;
The Old World and
the New World
;
On Sunday mornings in
Johannesburgh I take a bus somewhere
[first line];
The Shoes;
The Sleep
and the Waking
;
They were back home
again, all three of them
[first line]
Box 4
Folder 26
Old Times' Sake [short story], 1949/50 .
Final[?] version
Box 4
Folder 27
Abroad [short story], July 1966 .
Published in The Southern Review. Original version
Box 4
Folder 28
Across the Veld [short story], 1989 .
Adapted from section of My Son's Story and published in Paris Review,
1989. Photocopy of final version; final version as published
Box 4
Folder 29
Africa Emergent [short story], July 1970 .
Included in Livingstone's Companions. Original and final versions
Box 4
Folder 30
The African Magician [short story].
Final version[?]
Box 4
Folder 31
The African Pot [essay].
Zeit Magazin (Germany) feature in which writers, artists, etc., were
commissioned to write about favorite works of art. Original and final
versions
Box 4
Folder 32
After Apartheid: Black and White in a New South
Africa
[address].
The Anatomy of Hate: Solving Conflict Through Dialogue and Democracy
conference held by the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee and the Elie
Wiesel Foundation of New York in Oslo, Norway, Aug. 1990.
Original first draft and reading copy.
Box 4
Folder 33
Alberto Moravia's Africa. Review of Which
Tribe Do You Belong To? by Alberto Moravia.
Published in London Magazine, 1974. Final version
Box 4
Folder 34-36
Allan Boesak: Choosing for Justice
[documentary], 1983 .
Script outline; titles; paper edit of final script; notes; transcripts of
interviews; transcript of Boesak's interviews in film; printed text of
Gordimer's statement introducing film at first public showing in New
York; announcements of film showing; review clippings
Box 4
Folder 37
Amnesty [short story].
Published in The New Yorker and included in Jump and Other Stories. Tear
sheet from The New Yorker
Box 4
Folder 38
Apartheid [article].
Published in Holiday, Apr. 1959. Tear sheet from Holiday
Box 4
Folder 39
Apartheid, the Agitator [article].
Clipping, dated June 27, 1976
Box 4
Folder 40
Art and Change [speech].
To open the Aquarius National Student Arts Festival. Draft version
Box 4
Folder 41
As I See South Africa Today [address].
Delivered in Durban to the Catholic Winter School, June 27,
1976. Reading copy[?]
Box 4
Folder 42
At Last--Luangwa! [travel essay], July/Aug. 1987 .
Commissioned by Washington Post Magazine, 1987;
also published in Sunday Times, London, 1987.
Notebook; original draft version; loose notes for photographs; final
version; final shortened version, published by Sunday Times
Box 4
Folder 43
At the Crossroads of Cultures. Review of
Morning Yet On Creation Day, by Chinua Achebe.
Originally titled: Achebe, Gift of Africa. Published by Times Literary
Supplement, Oct. 17, 1975. Final version; tear sheet from TLS
Box 4
Folder 44
Balancing Rocks[short story], 1985 .
Excerpt from A Sport of Nature. Final version
Box 4
Folder 45
A Beautiful Day, Com [article].
Published in The Observer, London. Final version as sent to editor Donald
Trelford
Box 4
Folder 46
Benoni--Son of Sorrow[short story], Apr. 1988 .
Adapted from novel My Son's Story and published in Prize Writing, edited
by Martin Goff. Final version as published; photocopy of final version
Box 4
Folder 47-49
The Black Interpreters: Notes on African
Writing
. Published Spro-Cas/Ravan, 1973 .
Section One "Modern African Fiction in English" published under title:
African Literature: The Lectures Given on this Theme at the University of
Cape Town's Public Summer School by Board of Extra-Mural Studies,
University of Cape Town, Feb. 1972. Section One: Origins and
Directions - eight versions and revised pages. Several marked "First
lecture"
Box 4
Folder 50-51
Section One: Themes - three versions, two marked "Second
lecture";
revised pages; themes of various works by other authors
Box 5
The Black Interpreters (cont'd) - Burger's Daughter
Box 5
Folder 1
The Black Interpreters (cont'd)
Section One: Politics as Fate - five versions, one marked "Third
lecture"; revised pages
Box 5
Folder 2-3
Section Two: New Black Poetry in South Africa - two versions;
tear sheets from The Dalhousie Review; poems by various authors
Box 5
Folder 4
Contents, chapter headings, bibliography
Box 5
Folder 5
Two copies of African Literature: The Lectures..., one incomplete
Box 5
Folder 6
Writings by others, arranged alphabetically by author
Box 5
Folder 7
Clippings for research
Box 5
Folder 8
The Bride of Christ [short story], July 1966 .
Original version
Box 5
Folder 9
A Brilliant Bigot. Review of Sarah Gertrude
Millin: A South African Life by Martin Rubin.
Published in The Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 15, 1978. Clipping from
TLS
Box 5
Folder 10-14
Burger's Daughter [novel]. Viking, 1979 .
Original version; photostat of original version
Box 5
Folder 15-17
Discarded versions of various sections; notes, queries and
corrections; analysis of structure and contents of novel after most of it
was written and epigraphs as used in final version
Box 5
Folder 18-20
Incomplete clean copy, without final revisions made in July 1978 ;
penultimate copy of final version
Box 5
Folder 21-22
Photocopy, with final corrections and revised pages inserted;
model pages for typist
Box 6
Burger's Daughter (cont'd) - The Credibility Gap
Box 6
Folder 1-8
Burger's Daughter (cont'd) Research
materials; three notebooks
Box 6
Folder 9
Reviews of book
Box 6
Folder 10
Address to the CNA (Central News Agency) Award dinner, 1980 .
Final version as delivered; two clippings about award dinner
Box 6
Folder 11
Bush-craft [short story], 1980 .
Excerpted and adapted from July's People. Original and final versions
Box 6
Folder 12
By the Light of 10,000 Bulbs. Review of The
Visitation, by Ahmed Essop.
Published in The Star, Johannesburg,Feb. 11, 1981. Original and
final versions; clipping from The Star
Box 6
Folder 13
Censors, Poets, and Apartheid [article],
1972 .
Published in The New York Times. Final version
Box 6
Folder 14
Censorship and its Aftermath [address].
Keynote address to International Writers' Day, P.E.N. International,
June 2,
1990. Final version
Box 6
Folder 15
Censorship--The Final Solution [article].
Published in Evening Standard, London, 1989. Final version
Box 6
Folder 16-17
Chief Luthuli [article].
Included in The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places,
shortened versions published in Atlantic Monthly, 1959 and Treason Trial
Bulletin, May
1958. Original version; final version; shortened version;
various drafts; copy of Treason Trial Bulletin, No. 2, with article
Box 6
Folder 18
Children with the House to Themselves [short
story], 1985 .
Excerpt from A Sport of Nature and published in Paris Review, 1986. Final
version
Box 6
Folder 19
A Chip of Glass Ruby [script], 1965 .
Draft script, with changes; final script with changes
Box 6
Folder 20
A Christmas in the South [short story].
Adapted from first novel The Lying Days. Final version[?]
Box 6
Folder 21
City Lovers. Lincoln Center program for New York Film Festival,
Sept.
1982
Box 6
Folder 22
The Colour of Want. Review of The Race War by
Ronald Segal.
Published in The Nation, 1967. Final version
Box 6
Folder 23
A Company of Laughing Faces [short story].
Published in Mademoiselle and included in Not for Publication, and Other
Stories. Original version[?]
Box 6
Folder 24-26
Congo [essay], 1960 .
Two part travel essay commissioned by Holiday. Adapted and published in
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places under the title: The
Congo River. Original version and two second drafts of "Africa 1960: The
Great Period"; original version and two second drafts of "Towards the
Heart of Darkness: Congo River Journey"; research material
Box 6
Folder 27-30
The Conservationist [novel]. J. Cape,
1974 and
Viking, 1975 .
Original first version dated 28 June 1973; original version of
parts of the novel; final version for typist and additions
Box 6
Folder 31
Bound page proofs of Penguin edition
Box 6
Folder 32-33
Research materials; notebook, dated 1970-73, also contains notes
for short story:
The Credibility Gap
Box 6
Folder 34
Photocopy of address to the CNA Award dinner, 1975
Box 6
Folder 35
The Conservationist [short story].
Adapted from the novel The Conservationist. Published in Playboy,
Mar.
1973 (v.20, no.3). Two versions of first chapter of novel;
tear sheet from Playboy
Box 6
Folder 36
A Correspondence Course [short story],
Dec.
1979 .
Published in The New Yorker and included in Something Out There. Original
version; photocopy of original version; corrected version; final
version[?]; typescript with editor's comments
Box 6
Folder 37
A Correspondence Course [script], 1980 .
Notes; photocopy of draft
Box 6
Folder 38-41
Country Lovers [script], 1978 .
Adapted from "Town and Country Lovers." Original version, Nov. 1978;
revised version; original final version, Aug. 13, 1981; photocopy with
revisions; revised and abandoned pages
Box 6
Folder 42
Contracts
Box 6
Folder 43
Publications Appeal Board materials
Box 6
Folder 44
The Credibility Gap [short story], Aug.-Nov. 1970 .
Included in Livingstone's Companions. Original and final versions
Box 7
David Goldblatt--So Far - Great Problems in the Street
Box 7
Folder 1
David Goldblatt--So Far.
Introduction to catalogue of his retrospective exhibition of photographs
at the National Gallery, Cape Town, 1983; shortened version given as
opening address at exhibition. Notes; original version; two final
versions; shortened version
Box 7
Folder 2
A Day in My Life [article].
Feature for Asani Shiubun, Japan, 1989 and published in English in The
Independent, London, 1990. Final version
Box 7
Folder 3
Death, Love and the Fruit-Basket on Carmen Miranda's
Head
. Review of Sergeant Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro and Sol
by Mario Salz.
Published in London Magazine, 1980. Final version
Box 7
Folder 4
The Delmas Trial [address].
19th African American Institute Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, Jan. 9-13,
1989. Final version
Box 7
Folder 5
Diagonal Street [documentary].
Directed by Lynton Stephenson. First version, two copies of second
version, and third version
Box 7
Folder 6
Transcription and editing of taped interviews
Box 7
Folder 7-8
Notes; clippings for research
Box 7
Folder 9
Divers with Bloodshot Eyes [article],
late 50s/early 60s .
Commissioned by Holiday. Final version
Box 7
Folder 10
The Dogs [short story].
Excerpted from The Conservationist. Galley proofs
Box 7
Folder 11
Don Mattera [essay].
Final version
Box 7
Folder 12-13
English-Language Literature and Politics in South
Africa
[lecture].
Barnard College, New York (Gildersleeve Lecture), n.d.; Conference on
Literature in the Conditions of Southern Africa, April 4-7, 1975, York University,
England; University of Cape Town Summer School, Feb. 1972 and Jan. 1976.
Eight versions with notes; bibliography
Box 7
Folder 14
The Essential Gesture: Writers and
Responsibility
[lecture].
University of Michigan (Tanner Lecture), 1984 and published in The Essential
Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places (London: Jonathan Cape, 1988).
Original manuscript; second draft; five pages of notes; final version as
presented, marked for reading
Box 7
Folder 15
The Fischer Case [article], 1966 .
Published in New York Times Magazine and London Magazine and included in
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places. Final version for
NYTM; photocopy of tear sheet from London Magazine, Mar. 1966
Box 7
Folder 16
The Flickering Image: Cinema and the Rights of Man in
South Africa
[speech].
Journée Droits de L'homme et Cinema, Cannes Film Festival, 1989. Final
version
Box 7
Folder 17
For Andrina Destiny Was Bitter.
Review of The Beadle by Pauline Smith. Published in The New York Times
Book Review, June 16, 1963. Photocopy proof from NYTBR
Box 7
Folder 18
For Dear Life [short story], June-July 1975 .
Published in New Statesman, London, Jan. 14, 1977 and included in A
Soldier's Embrace. Original version
Box 7
Folder 19-20
Friday's Footprint, and Other Stories [short
story collection]. Viking, 1960 .
The Bridegroom;
Check Yes or No;
Friday's Footprint(two copies);
The Gentle Art(five copies);
Harry's Presence (two copies);
An Image of Success;
The Last Kiss (two copies);
Little Willie (with alternate ending);
Our Bovary;
The Path of the Moon's Dark Fortnight;
A Style of Her Own;
A Thing of the Past
Box 7
Folder 21
Final drafts, Apr. 1959 ,
with handwritten corrections of the following stories: The Bridegroom;
Check Yes or No; Friday's Footprint; The Gentle Art; An Image of
Success; The Last Kiss; The Night the Favourite Came Home; Our Bovary;
A Style of Her Own; A Thing of the Past
Box 7
Folder 22
Acceptance speech for the W.H. Smith and Son Literary Award,
1960?
Box 7
Folder 23
From Apartheid to Afrocentrism [paper],
1979 .
Given at conference of the Association of University English Teachers of
Southern Africa and published in English in Africa 7 (no. 1, March 1980),
South African Outlook (v. 107 (1977), 181- 83) and in "The AUESTA
Papers."
Photocopy of original, with cuts and changes marked for a shortened
version; photocopy as published in "The AUESTA Papers"; photocopy of
several pages, possibly a discarded version of above
Box 7
Folder 24
Germany to Me [article], 1969 .
Commissioned by François Bondy for an anthology of that title. Original
version; version marked "Corrected text & rewrite..."
Box 7
Folder 25-26
Gold and the Gun [television documentary],
released June
1990 .
Produced by Jenny Barraclough of Barraclough/Carey productions for BBC 1
TV. World-wide distribution in the series "Frontiers." Texts; "Frontiers"
scripts
Box 7
Folder 27
Three notebooks kept while travelling in North-Eastern Transvaal
and Kruger Park (South Africa), and Mozambique, with film crew
Box 7
Folder 28-34
Research materials; notes; production schedule; photographs; BBC
publicity postcard announcing film's debut
Box 7
Folder 35
Golden Reclining Nudes of the Desert,
1974 .
Excerpted from The Conservationist. Published London Magazine. Page
proofs
Box 7
Folder 36
Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants
[screenplay], Jan. 2, 1981 .
Adapted by Barney Simon from Gordimer short story. Final[?] version
Box 7
Folder 37
Gore-Browne of Zambia: Bwana with a
Difference
. Review of Black Heart: Gore-Browne and the Politics
of Multi-Racial Zambia by Robert Rotberg.
Published in The Observer, London, 1977. Final version
Box 7
Folder 38
Great Problems in the Street [article],
1963 .
For anthology I Will Still Be Moved, published by Arthur Barker, edited
by Marion Friedmann, 1963, and included in The Essential Gesture:
Writing, Politics and Places. Final version, lacking last page(s)
Box 8
Guarding the Gates of Paradise - July's People
Box 8
Folder 1
Guarding the Gates of Paradise. Commissioned
and published by New York Times Magazine, 1985 .
Original version; second draft; penultimate version; final version
Box 8
Folder 2-3
A Guest of Honour [novel]. Viking, 1970 .
Draft version
Box 8
Folder 4-5
Penultimate[?] version, with changes for final version
Box 8
Folder 6-7
Revised pages; notebook; notes, some annotated in red ink by
Claude Wauthier
Box 8
Folder 8
Home [short story].
Published in The New Yorker and included in Jump and Other Stories.
Copy-edited typescript from The New Yorker; galley proofs with editor's
corrections
Box 8
Folder 9
How Not to Know the African [article],
Aug.
1966 .
Published in Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg, under the title "The Voices
We May Not Hear" and broadcast on "Voice of America." Final version
Box 8
Folder 10
Huddleston: A Sign. Contribution to
festschrift for Bishop Trevor Huddleston's 75th birthday, 1987 .
Final version
Box 8
Folder 11
A Hunting Accident [short story], July 1975 .
Published in Encounter, London, Mar. 1977 and included in A Soldier's
Embrace. Original version; photocopy of final version
Box 8
Folder 12
I Am Pascale [children's book].
Carbon typescript of text
Box 8
Folder 13
The Idea of Gardening. Review of Life and
Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee.
Published in The New York Times Book Review, 1984. Final version; proof,
with corrections and annotations by editor Robert Silvers and
Gordimer
Box 8
Folder 14
In Celebration of Patrick White [article].
Commissioned by Melbourne Age, Australia, May 1987, on the occasion of
his 75th birthday. Final version
Box 8
Folder 15
The Ingot and the Stick, the Ingot and the
Gun
[essay]. Published in BBC's anthology Frontiers.
Adapted from Gold and the Gun. Draft and final[?] versions; galley
proofs
Box 8
Folder 16
Inkalamu's Place [short story], Mar. 1965 .
Original and second versions
Box 8
Folder 17
The Interpreters: Theme as Communication in the
African Novel
[article].
Final version
Box 8
Folder 18
Intimate Environs [script].
Three draft scripts; notebook
Box 8
Folder 19
An Intruder [short story], Mar. 1965 .
Published in The New Yorker as "Out of the Walls." Original version[?],
typescript
Box 8
Folder 20
An Island of Rock [short story], 1953 .
Story was bought by The New Yorker, set up in print, but never published.
Story not included in any of Gordimer's story collections and was
unpublished as of 1985. Thirteen typescript pages, marked by printer;
galley/working proofs and annotated by Katharine S. White; three pages of
notes on the working proof by White; final version
Box 8
Folder 21
A Journey [short story]. Published in Playboy
and included in Jump and Other Stories.
Proof from Playboy
Box 8
Folder 22
Journey to the Shore of the Dead [travel
article], Dec.
1958 .
Published in The Observer, London, 1959. Final version
Box 8
Folder 23
July's People [novel]. Viking, 1981 .
Original version, with discarded versions of pages
Box 8
Folder 24
Second version; author's queries and answers from people
consulted
Box 8
Folder 25-26
Two copies of final version as given to printer
Box 8
Folder 27-29
Copy edited version from Viking and response by Gordimer, with
final queries and revisions
Box 9
July's People (cont'd) - Jump, and Other Stories
Box 9
Folder 1-2
July's People [novel] (cont'd)
Two copy edited versions from J. Cape
Box 9
Folder 3
Page proofs
Box 9
Folder 4-5
Research materials; notebook, which contains notes for other
works, lectures, etc.
Box 9
Folder 6
Excerpted version, published in Mother Jones?
Box 9
Folder 7
Address to the CNA Award dinner, Cape Town, Apr. 27,
1982 .
Original draft and final version as delivered
Box 9
Folder 8-16
July's People [screenplay].
Rights acquired in 1984 by producer David Puttnam and director Roland
Joffe. Project later given to director Randa Haines. Script rewritten by
Loring Mandel in 1991. Film never realized. Nine drafts
Box 9
Folder 17
Alternative versions of scenes, notes and changes
Box 9
Folder 18
Mandel's screenplay, with comments by Gordimer
Box 9
Folder 19
Itinerary for Haines, accounts, photographs of possible location
folder 20:
Box 9
Folder 20
Contracts with Warner Bros. for rights to novel and commissioning
screenplay
Box 9
Folder 21-22
Jump, and Other Stories [short story
collection]. Bloomsbury, 1991 .
Original manuscripts of:
Amnesty, and one
page of notes;
Comrades, Nov. 16,
1987;
A Find, Dec. 28,
1989;
Home, Nov. 11,
1987;
A Journey, Dec. 1987-Jan. 1988;
Jump, Feb. 8-14,
1989;
The Moment Before the Gun Went
Off
, Nov. 1987;
My Father Leaves
Home
;
Once Upon a Time,
Feb. 23-24, 1988;
Safe Houses, Dec. 1990;
Some are Born to Sweet Delight;
Spoils, Feb.-Mar.
1987;
Teraloyna, Aug. 1986
and first revision;
The Ultimate Safari,
Nov.
1988;
What Were You
Dreaming?
Box 9
Folder 23
Revised versions of the above and Keeping Fit. Arranged in
published order
Box 10
Jump, and Other Stories (cont'd) - My Father Leaves Home
Box 10
Folder 1-7
Jump, and Other Stories (cont'd)
Final version; master pages; three sets of proofs
Box 10
Folder 8
Kurt Jobst [address].
Given by Reinhold Cassirer at the cremation of Kurt Jobst, May 7,
1971. Final version of address; photocopy of clipping,
titled: "He gave Jo'burg Some Style, A Personal Tribute by Nadine
Gordimer"; photocopy of longer version used as foreword for book on
Jobst's work, published 1977
Box 10
Folder 9
The Land Not of Our Brothers. Review of
Martyrs and Fanatics: South Africa and Human Destiny by Peter Dreyer.
Published in New Republic, 1980. Final version
Box 10
Folder 10-11
The Late Bourgeois World [novel]. Viking,
1966 .
Photocopy of synopsis; original and final versions
Box 10
Folder 12
The Late Bourgeois World [screenplay]. BBC TV
program.
Adaptation by Tristram Powell, revised and partly rewritten by Gordimer.
Photocopy of script
Box 10
Folder 13
Leaving School: A Bolter and the Invincible
Summer
[essay].
Published in the series "Leaving School" for London Magazine and included
in The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places under title: A
Bolter and the Invincible Summer.
[See also: A South African Childhood] Original and final versions
Box 10
Folder 14
A Letter from Johannesburg [article],
1976 .
Published in The New York Review of Books and in The Observer, London,
and included in The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.
Photocopy of final version for NYRB; photocopy of typed footnote;
scribbled note calculating 1974 South African election results; proof
from NYRB; version marked for cuts and resulting shortened version for
The Observer; additions and cuts
Box 10
Folder 15
Letter from South Africa [article], 1964 .
Commissioned by a Danish paper Politiken. Final version
Box 10
Folder 16
A Letter from the 153rd State [article],
1980 .
Published in the New York Review of Books. Final version; proof from
NYRB, with comments and corrections by editor Robert Silvers and Gordimer
Box 10
Folder 17
The Life of the Imagination [short story],
July
1967 .
Published by The New Yorker, 1968 and included in Livingstone's
Companions. Original version; final version, marked "incomplete copy"
Box 10
Folder 18
Little Willie [short story]. Published in The
New Yorker[?] and included in Friday's Footprint, and Other Stories.
Final[?] version with queries and comments by editor Katharine S. White
Box 10
Folder 19-20
Living in the Interregnum [lecture/article].
James Lecture, The New York Institute for the Humanities, October 14,
1982; Academic Freedom Lecture (D.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial
Lecture), Rhodes University, Sept. 1, 1983; published by New York
Review of Books, Jan. 20, 1983 and included in The
Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places. James lecture: Original
version, lacking three pages, misc. notes; second version; final version
as presented, under title: Living Conditions: In the Interregnum; notes
and research clippings; Five Years of Activity, by The New York Institute
for the Humanities, listing Gordimer's James lecture
Box 10
Folder 21
Academic Freedom lecture: Original first draft and inserts; original
second draft; final version; research clippings; clipping of published
lecture
Box 10
Folder 22
NYRB article: Cuts and changes, Nov. 1982 ; galley proof, with corrections
and changes by editor Robert Silvers, queries by and to Silvers; photocopy
of tear sheet, marked for cuts, apparently for shortened version
Box 10
Folder 23-26
Livingstone's Companions [short story
collection]. Viking, 1971 .
Photocopies, typescripts and tear sheets in preparation for publication.
One version of each of the following titles, unless otherwise indicated:
Abroad, two copies;
Africa Emergent;
The
Bride of Christ
;
The Credibility
Gap
;
Inkalamu's Place;
An Intruder, with alternative endings;
The Life of the Imagination;
Livingstone's Companions, three copies;
A Meeting in Space, three copies;
No Place Like;
Open
House
, three copies;
Otherwise Birds
Fly In
;
Rain Queen, three
copies;
A Third Presence;
A Third PresenceA Third Presence
Box 10
Folder 27
Contents page; lists giving number of words for each story and
where published previously
Box 10
Folder 28
Look That's Me, with Lydia [short story],
1980 .
Excerpted and adapted from July's People. Final version
Box 10
Folder 29
Lourenco Marques: The Little Escape [travel
article]. Published in Holiday magazine.
Final version
Box 10
Folder 30
The Lying Days [novel]. Simon & Schuster,
1953 .
Synopsis only
Box 10
Folder 31
A Mad One [short story], Jan. 1975 .
Published in Harper's and Queen and included in A Soldier's Embrace.
Original and final versions
Box 10
Folder 32
Madagascar [travel article], 1972 .
Published in either London Magazine or Holiday. Final[?] version;
incomplete version; photocopied pages with corrections in red ink and
inserts suggested by Claude Wauthier; seven pages of notes on travel in
Madagascar; six pages of notes, one of which pertains to A Guest of
Honour
Box 10
Folder 33
The Magic of the Script. Review of We Came to
Town edited by Caroline Kerfoot.
Final version
Box 10
Folder 34
Making Oneself Over: The Swedish Way. Review
of Love's Gravity by Per Wästberg.
Published in The Times Literary Supplement, May 1977. Photocopy
Box 10
Folder 35
Man of the Year--Nelson Mandela, statement by Nadine Gordimer.
Requested by Robert Bernstein of Random House. Final version
Box 10
Folder 36
A Meeting in Space [short story], Feb. 1966 .
Published by The New Yorker under the title "Say Something African" and
included in Livingstone's Companions. Original and final versions
Box 10
Folder 37
A Memory of Richard Rive. Commissioned by The
Guardian, London, 1991 .
Final version as sent to editor
Box 10
Folder 38
Merci Dieu, It Changes [article], 1971 .
Two part travel article on Ghana and the Ivory Coast, published by The
Atlantic under title "West African Diary." Original and final versions
Box 10
Folder 39
Message in a Bottle [short story]. Published
in The Kenyon Review and included in Not for Publication, and Other
Stories.
Original version
Box 10
Folder 40
The Metaphor of Exile. Review of Thoughts
Abroad, poems by John Bruin (i.e. Dennis Brutus).
Published in South African Outlook, no. 101, Jan. 1971. Final version
Box 10
Folder 41
More Than a Writer? [address]. British
Council conference, Mexico City, 1988 .
Final version as presented
Box 10
Folder 42
A Morning in a Library [article].
Commissioned and published by The Times, London, 1975 .
Final version; clipping of article, dated July 2, 1975
Box 10
Folder 43
My Father Leaves Home [short story].
Published in The New Yorker and included in Jump, and Other Stories.
Photocopy of version sent to The New Yorker editor, with comments and
corrections; galley proofs with corrections by editor and Gordimer
Box 11
My Son's Story - Nice
Box 11
Folder 1-7
My Son's Story [novel]. Bloomsbury, 1990 ; Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1990 .
Original version; photocopy of original, Oct. 27, 1989; revised and
discarded versions, queries, research clippings; final rewrite of
original, Nov. 1989; word- processed copy with corrected pages
Box 11
Folder 8-12
Master galleys; printer's copy and revised pages
Box 11
Folder 13
Bound uncorrected proof, Bloomsbury edition
Box 11
Folder 14-15
Proofs and proof of jacket, Farrar, Straus & Giroux edition
Box 11
Folder 16
The Mysterious Incest. Review of Flaws in the
Glass: A Self-Portrait, by Patrick White. Published in The New York Review
of Books, 1973?
Original draft; final version; proof from NYRB, with comments by editor
Robert Silvers; corrections and objections by Gordimer
Box 11
Folder 17
Naipaul's Freedom. Review of In a Free State
by V.S. Naipaul.
Published in The New York Times Book Review, Oct. 17,
1971. Final version; tear sheet from NYTBR
Box 11
Folder 18
Native Country [short story]. Included in Not
for Publication, and Other Stories.
Original version, corrected carbon typescript
Box 11
Folder 19
The Need for Something Sweet [short story],
July
1975 .
Published in The New Review, London, 1977 and included in A Soldier's
Embrace. Original and two final versions
Box 11
Folder 20
Neighbors and Friends [short story].
First version
Box 11
Folder 21
New Forms of Strategy--No Change of Heart
[address]. University of Cape Town Conference on Censorship, Apr. 24,
1980 .
Final version
Box 11
Folder 22
New Notes from the Underground. Review of
Mouroir by Breyten Breytenbach.
Published in The Atlantic, 1984. First draft; second version;
final version; proof
Box 11
Folder 23
The Next-to-Last Testament of Madame G.
[article], Mar.-Apr. 1971 .
Original version
Box 11
Folder 24
Nice [article], 1978 .
Commissioned, but not published in GEO (American edition). Original,
second, and final versions
Box 12
No Place Like - Pula
Box 12
Folder 1
No Place Like [short story], June 1970 .
Published in The Southern Review and included in Livingstone's
Companions. Original and final versions
Box 12
Folder 2
No Place Like [short story collection]. J.
Cape, 1975 .
Bound proof
Box 12
Folder 3-6
No Place Like Home: Johannesburg [article],
1978 .
Commissioned by GEO (German edition?). Original and final versions; eight
pages of notes; two notebooks; research material--clippings and notes
Box 12
Folder 7
Not for Publication [short story]. Published
in The Atlantic and included in Not for Publication, and Other Stories.
Original version
Box 12
Folder 8-12
Not for Publication, and Other Stories [short
story collection]. Viking, 1965.
Typescripts and/or carbon typescripts of:
The
African Magician
;
A Chip of Glass
Ruby
;
A Company of Laughing
Faces
;
Good Climate, Friendly
Inhabitants
;
Message in a
Bottle
;
Native Country;
Neighbours and Friends (not included in
published volume);
Not for Publication;
One Whole Year, and Even More;
The Pet;
Some Monday
for Sure
;
Son-in-Law;
Tenants of the Last Tree-House;
Through Time and Distance;
Vital Statistics;
The
Worst Thing of All
Box 12
Folder 13
Handwritten details of story lengths and where previously
published
Box 12
Folder 14
A Note on Women and Literature in South
Africa
[address]. Given to Association of Women Publishers,
Johannesburg, May 8, 1981 .
Final version; photocopy of clipping of address
Box 12
Folder 15
Notes of an Expropriator [article], 1964 .
Published in The Times Literary Supplement. Final version
Box 12
Folder 16-17
The Novel and the Nation [lecture], late 50s .
Presented at the University of the Witwatersrand and as the Anne
Radcliffe Lecture, Harvard, etc. Published Radcliffe Quarterly, 1961. Original
and final versions; final version with cuts and changes; amended version,
typed for delivery; copy of Radcliffe Quarterly
Box 12
Folder 18-24
Occasion for Loving [novel]. Viking,
1963 .
Synopsis; original and final versions; draft pages
Box 12
Folder 25
On and Off the Banned List [address],
1983 .
Introduction to readings by various authors for the South African
Institute of Race Relations, University of the Witwatersrand, Aug. 8,
1983. Final version; handwritten details of program
Box 12
Folder 26
One Whole Year and Even More [short story],
Apr.
1963 .
Published in The Kenyon Review and included in Not for Publication, and
Other Stories. Original version
Box 12
Folder 27
Open House [short story], Dec. 1966 .
Included in Livingstone's Companions. Original and final versions
Box 12
Folder 28
Open House [script]. Adapted for BBC
television by Tristram Powell, revised and partly rewritten by Gordimer.
Photocopy; miscellaneous annotated pages
Box 12
Folder 29
Oral History [short story], Aug. 1976 .
Published in Harper's and Queen and Playboy, May 1977 (v.24, no.5).
Included in A Soldier's Embrace. Original version; photocopy of tear
sheet from Harper's and Queen?
Box 12
Folder 30
Orientation--Towards What? [address].
Orientation address given to students of University of Natal, Feb. 20,
1984 .
Final version
Box 12
Folder 31
Otherwise Birds Fly In [short story],
Dec.
1966 .
Included in Livingstone's Companions Original version
Box 12
Folder 32
Our Violent Society, Local and Overseas Perspectives.
Introduction to a discussion, Nov. 8, 1990, Weekly Mail Book Week.
Final[?] version
Box 12
Folder 33
Pack Up, Black Man [article], 1971 .
Commissioned by The New York Times, published The New York Times, New
York Herald Tribune and as preface for Cosmas Desmond's The Discarded
People, [1969?] Original version as rewritten for preface to The
Discarded People; final version; clippings of article from NYT and NYHT.
Box 12
Folder 34
The Pearl of Manet [article], 1954/5 .
About Lotte Furstenberg-Cassirer with fictitious names substituted.
Penultimate[?] version
Box 12
Folder 35
Plenty [short story]. Excerpted from The
Conservationist.
Original and photocopied versions; page proofs and photocopy of page
proofs
Box 12
Folder 36
Policing the University: The Threat in South
Africa
[address]. York University upon receipt of honorary degree
in July,
1988 .
Original second draft, marked for reading; two final versions, one marked
"not updated"; final version, as delivered
Box 12
Folder 37-39
Praise [screenplay]. Adapted from short story
"Not for Publication."
Cast list; photocopy of annotated short story; draft scripts;
rewrites
Box 12
Folder 40
A Private Apprenticeship. Review of The
Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers, edited by Margarita G. Smith.
Published by London Magazine. Final version
Box 12
Folder 41
The Problems of Apartheid [speech]. Given at
symposium "Africa: The Emerging Patterns" at Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C., March 24, 1959 .
Final version as delivered; portion of printed program
Box 12
Folder 42
Problems of the Novelist in South Africa
Today
[speech].
Two photocopies of final version
Box 12
Folder 43
Pula [travel article], 1970 .
Published in London Magazine. Original version; second draft; final
version, lacking a few pages; shortened final version
Box 13
Rags and Bones - Something Out There
Box 13
Folder 1
Rags and Bones [short story], 1979 .
Published in Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1979 and included in Something Out
There. Final version
Box 13
Folder 2
Rain-Queen [short story], Dec. 1967-Jan. 1968 .
Included in Livingstone's Companions. Original and final versions
Box 13
Folder 3
References: The Codes of Culture [address].
Blashfield Address, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters,
1989 and
published in The New York Times Review of Books.
Final version; two proofs from the NYTRB, with changes by editor Robert
Silvers and Gordimer
Box 13
Folder 4
Relevance and Commitment [address].
State of Art in South Africa conference, 1979; Radcliffe Forum, Harvard
1979;
Neil Gunn Fellowship address for the Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh,
May
1981; included in The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics
and Places and published as "Apprentices of Freedom" in New Society,
1981.
Four versions
Box 13
Folder 5
A Satisfactory Settlement [short story],
Jan.
1967 .
First draft; second version
Box 13
Folder 6-9
Seek and Destroy [film script]. Adapted from
short story "Oral History."
Reduced-size photocopy of story marked for script; notebook pages; notes
and trial versions of scenes; original version; two draft versions; five
revised versions
Box 13
Folder 10
Seven Women Artists [speech]. Given at
opening of FUBA Art Gallery exhibition, Johannesburg, Aug. 9,
1987 .
Version as delivered
Box 13
Folder 11
Siblings [short story], May 1974 .
Published in Encounter, London, 1975 and included in A Soldier's
Embrace. Original version; photocopy of corrected final version; proof
Box 13
Folder 12-13
Six Feet of the Country [short story
collection]. Simon & Schuster, 1956 ; Penguin, 1956 .
Final versions:
A Bit of Young Life;
Charmed Lives;
The Cicatrice;
Clowns in
Clover
;
Face From Atlantis;
Happy Event;
Horn of Plenty;
My First Two
Women
;
Out of Season;
Six Feet of the Country;
The Smell of Death and Flowers;
Which New Era Would That Be?;
The White Goddess and the Mealie Question
(included in the U.S. edition)
Box 13
Folder 14-17
Six Feet of the Country [film series].
Shown Film Forum 1, New York City, May 1983 and Cape Town International
Film Festival, Sept. 1981. Film Forum 1 release, Documentafilm 1 and 2
programs; contracts; writings mentioning series; press digest and review
clippings
Box 13
Folder 18
The Soft Voice of the Serpent, and Other
Stories
[short story collection]. Simon & Schuster, 1952 .
Typescripts of four stories, with minor corrections:
The Catch,
The Peace of
Respectability
,
The Menace of the
Years
,
A Watcher of the Dead;
book jacket
Box 13
Folder 19
A Soldier's Embrace [short story], 1975 .
Published in Harper's and Queen, 1976 and included in A Soldier's
Embrace. Original version, Jan.-Feb. 1975; second version, June 1975;
photocopy of final version
Box 13
Folder 20-21
A Soldier's Embrace [short story collection].
Viking, 1980.
Final versions as published, with corrections and instructions to copy
editor on title pages:
For Dear Life;
A Hunting Accident;
A Lion on the Freeway;
A Mad One;
The Need for Something
Sweet
;
Oral History;
Siblings;
A Soldier's
Embrace
;
The Termitary;
Time Did;
Town and
Country Lovers
;
You Name It
Box 13
Folder 22
Ten pages of notes; final order of contents; photocopies of
clippings used for research; photograph of Penguin book jacket; specimen
of book jacket design of U.S. edition
Box 13
Folder 23
Some Monday for Sure [short story]. Published
in Transition and included in Not for Publication, and Other Stories.
Original version
Box 13
Folder 24
Something for the Time Being [script].
Adapted for BBC television by Tristram Powell, revised and partly rewritten
by Gordimer.
Rehearsal script; list of photographs supplied by David Goldblatt
Box 13
Folder 25-35
Something Out There [story collection].
Viking, 1983.
Original, draft and/or final versions of:
At the
Rendezvous of Victory
, Jan. 1982, two versions;
A City of the Dead, A City of the Living,
Feb.
1981, seven versions, including unpublished shortened
version titled "Tenure", and version for The New Yorker;
A Correspondence Course, Feb. 1980;
Crimes of Conscience, July 1981, two versions;
Letter To His Father, three versions, proof
from London Review of Books, photocopy of English translation of Kafka's
letter from his father, German transcription with corrections probably by
Arnulf Conradi, S. Fischer Verlag, research materials;
Love Stories: Blinder and Terminal, Feb. 1982,
two versions;
Rags and Bones;
Sins of the Third Age, Jan. 1982,
two versions;
Something Out There, one
version, draft chapters, and research materials
Box 13
Folder 36
Complete collection, with instructions to typist
Box 13
Folder 37-38
Edited typescript from Penguin-Viking
Box 14
Something Out There (cont'd) - Tanzania: People, Not Money
Box 14
Folder 1-2
Something Out There [story collection]
(cont'd)
Proofs; list of stories, where and when published and corrections for
French translation
Box 14
Folder 3
Something Out There [film script], Apr. 25,
1986 .
Adapted by Hugh Cassirer from novella by Gordimer. First rough draft
Box 14
Folder 4
Something Unexpected [short story].
Adapted from a chapter of novel Occasion for Loving and published in
Cosmopolitan. Original[?] and final versions; tear sheet
Box 14
Folder 5
Son-in-Law [short story], May 1964 .
Included in Not for Publication, and Other Stories. Original version
Box 14
Folder 6
Songololo [short story], 1985 .
Excerpted and adapted from novel A Sport of Nature. Final version
Box 14
Folder 7
Sorting the Images from the Man. Commissioned
by and published in Newsweek, Feb. 26, 1990 and published in Africa
Commentary, 1990 .
Final version as sent to Newsweek; tear sheet from Newsweek; expanded
version as sent to AC, titled: Letter from Johannesburg
Box 14
Folder 8
The South Africa I Want [article].
Published in Der Stern, Germany, 1988. Second draft
Box 14
Folder 9
South Africa: The Way Writers Live Now
[article].
Commissioned by German radio - Südwestfunk, Feb. 1977. Original version;
photocopy of final version, incomplete
Box 14
Folder 10
South Africa: Towards a Desk Drawer
Literature
[address], 1968 .
Given to the students of the University of the Witwatersrand and
published in The Classic, v.2, no. 4 (1968). Draft
Box 14
Folder 11
A South African Childhood [article],
early 1950s .
Published by The New Yorker. First of two autobiographical essays [See
also: Leaving School: A Bolter and the Invisible Summer] Final version
Box 14
Folder 12
Speak Out: The Necessity for Protest
[lecture].
E.G. Malherbe Academic Freedom lecture, University of Natal, Durban,
1971
and included in The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.
Final version as delivered
Box 14
Folder 13
Spoils [short story].
Published in Granta and included in Jump and Other Stories. Proof from
Granta
Box 14
Folder 14-22
A Sport of Nature [novel]. J. Cape, 1987 ; Knopf, 1987.
Original manuscript; revised penultimate version; copy from which final
version was typed
Box 14
Folder 23-24
Proofs from J. Cape Ltd.
Box 14
Folder 25-26
Notes, discarded pages, notes for copy editors, style sheet;
research material
Box 14
Folder 27
A Stinging Touch of Local Colour. Review of
Local Colour by Stephen Gray.
Published in Rand Daily Mail, ca. 1975 Final version
Box 14
Folder 28
Story from the Top Shelf [short story].
Final version
Box 14
Folder 29
Stranger in Town [short story], 1963 .
Original version
Box 14
Folder 30
Sweet Dreams Selection [short story],
1950 .
Unpublished final version; final version
Box 14
Folder 31
A Tang of Smoke and Indigo. Review of Aké:
The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka.
Published in New York Review of Books, 1982. Original draft; final version;
proof from NYRB
Box 14
Folder 32
Tanzania: People, Not Money [article],
1973 .
Published in The Atlantic, 1973. Eight pages of notes; original version;
second draft, with corrections in red ink by Claude Wauthier; final
version
Box 15
Tenants of the Last Tree House - You Name It, Untitled Writings
Box 15
Folder 1
Tenants of the Last Tree House [short story].
Published in The New Yorker and included in Not for Publication, and
Other Stories. Revised version, incomplete, lacking unchanged pages;
revision for The New Yorker
Box 15
Folder 2
The Termitary [short story], June 1974 .
Published in London Magazine and included in A Soldier's Embrace.
Original version
Box 15
Folder 3
A Third Presence [short story], Nov. 1964 .
Included in Livingstone's Companions. Original version
Box 15
Folder 4
Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics
[lecture]. Ben Bellit Lecture, Bennington College, Oct. 4,
1990 .
Published as a chapbook by Bennington College, 1991. Original manuscript;
final version with additions
Box 15
Folder 5
Through Time and Distance [short story],
late 50s or
early 60s .
Published in The Atlantic and included in Not for Publication, and Other
Stories. Final version; tear sheets
Box 15
Folder 6
Through Time and Distance [film script].
Adapted from short story for director John Schlesinger. Original and
final versions of synopsis
Box 15
Folder 7
Time Did [short story], Aug. 1976 .
Published in London Magazine, November 1977 and included in A Soldier's
Embrace. Original version; photocopy of final version
Box 15
Folder 8
Tourism [short story], Mar. 1982 .
Published in London Magazine, June 1983. Original and final versions
Box 15
Folder 9
Town and Country Lovers [short story],
Aug.
1974 .
Published in Harper's and Queen and included in A Soldier's Embrace.
Original[?] version; second/penultimate version; copy edited version;
photocopy of last portion
Box 15
Folder 10
Transkei: A Vision of Two Blood-Red Suns
[article], 1978 .
Published in GEO 1978, with photographs by David Goldblatt and in The
Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places. Photocopy of final
version; a section apparently not published; notes; original annotated
copy; research clippings
Box 15
Folder 11
The Triumph of Memory. Review of Memory is
the Weapon, by Don Mattera.
Published in The Star, Johannesburg, Feb. 8, 1988. Final version;
tear sheet
Box 15
Folder 12
The Two Souths--One World [article],
1961 .
Published in The Observer, London, June 9, 1963. Original version; tear
sheet from The Observer
Box 15
Folder 13
Unchaining Poets [article].
Published in The New York Times, Dec. 9, 1972. Clipping of article with
Edward Gorey illustration
Box 15
Folder 14
Unconfessed History. Review of Ah, But Your
Country is Beautiful by Alan Paton.
Published in The New Republic, Feb. 1982. Final version
Box 15
Folder 15
The Value of a Conference. Introduction to
Culture in Another South Africa, an anthology of conference papers given at
the CASA Conference, Amsterdam, 1977 , Zed Books, London, 1989.
Final version
Box 15
Folder 16
A View of the Nile [travel article],
Dec.
1958 .
Published in The National and English Review, 1959. Final version
Box 15
Folder 17
The Visit [short story].
Photocopy
Box 15
Folder 18
Vital Statistics [short story].
Published in The Kenyon Review and included in Not for Publication, and
Other Stories. Original version; first revision; final version
Box 15
Folder 19
Vladimir Ledochowski, Man of Two Worlds
[article].
Published in a Polish emigré journal, 1987. Final version
Box 15
Folder 20
Waterford School: The Riches of Human Variety
[article].
Published in school magazine Vista, 1966. Final version
Box 15
Folder 21
What Being a South African Means to Me
[address].
Given to the students at University of Cape Town, 1977. Photocopy of text
Box 15
Folder 22-27
What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South
African Censorship Works
. Taurus, 1980 .
Paperback; drafts; notes and materials concerning Publication Control
Board; clippings about censorship
Box 15
Folder 28
What is a Writer's Freedom [lecture].
Durban Indian Teachers' Conference. Original first version; photocopy of
final version
Box 15
Folder 29
When I Lost My Innocence [article].
Published in Swedish paper Akton Bladet, 1980. Final version
Box 15
Folder 30
Where Do Whites Fit in? [article], 1959 .
Published in Twentieth Century and included in The Essential Gesture:
Writing, Politics and Places. Final version
Box 15
Folder 31
Who Writes? Who Reads? The Concept of a People's
Literature
[address/article].
Original manuscript, with two pages of notes; final version as delivered,
Albert Pick Lecture, University of Chicago, Oct. 1987; shortened version
for Dagens Nyeter, Sweden; revised version delivered at UNESCO
Conference, Dakar, Senegal, Nov. 27, 1989; version delivered for
Phi Beta Kappa "Literary Exercises," Harvard University, 1988; version
delivered at African Literature Conference, Oxford University, June 1990
Box 15
Folder 32
Why Haven't You Written? [short story],
June
1970 .
Published in The New Yorker and included in Livingstone's Companions.
Original version
Box 15
Folder 33
With Open Eyes [article].
Tribute to Helen Suzman in a festschrift, published on her retirement
from Parliament in South Africa, 1989. Final version
Box 15
Folder 34
Witwatersrand: A Time and Tailings [essay],
1967.
Published by Optima with photographs by David Goldblatt. Expanded for
preface to On the Mines, by Gordimer and Goldblatt, published by C.
Struik, 1973.
Two original versions; second draft; final carbon version, with
instructions to printer in Goldblatt's hand; On the Mines proofs
annotated by Gordimer and Goldblatt; notes; tear sheet from Optima;
research material
Box 15
Folder 35
The Worst Thing of All [short story],
Oct.
1963 .
Published in London Magazine and included in Not for Publication, and
Other Stories. Original version
Box 15
Folder 36
The Writer in South Africa Today [speech].
The Race Relations Symposium, 1968 .
Original version
Box 15
Folder 37
The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the
State
[address]. International P.E.N. Congress, New York,
1986 .
Final version
Box 15
Folder 38
Writing and Writers in South Africa
[speech/article].
Unknown where given or published. Original text as delivered; final
version of article
Box 15
Folder 39
Writing in Africa: Nadine Gordimer
Interviewed by Stephen Gray and Phil du Plessis.
Published in New Nation, September 1972, vol. 6, no. 2. Copy of
New Nation only
Box 15
Folder 40
You Name It [short story], July 1972 .
Published in London Magazine, June/July 1976 and included in A
Soldier's Embrace. Original and final[?] versions
Box 15
Folder 41
You Name It [television script].
Draft
Untitled Works
Box 15
Folder 42
Article. Critique of an unnamed South African literature book,
n.d. Notes
Box 15
Folder 43
Article. In defense of Salman Rushdie.
Written for The Observer, London, 1990. First draft of original
version
Box 15
Folder 44
Article. Pertaining to sale of King Farouk's treasures, 1954 .
Unpublished, commissioned by William Shawn of The New Yorker. Final
version
Box 15
Folder 45
Article. Tribute to Alan Paton, 1988 .
Published in The Observer, London and in The Star, Johannesburg. Final
version as sent to The Observer
Box 15
Folder 46
Article. Tribute to Angus Wilson on his 70th birthday.
Published in Twentieth Century Literature, USA, 1983. Final
version
Box 15
Folder 47
Blurb. For catalog published by Purnell announcing Charles
Eglington's book Under the Horizon, ca. 1976 .
Final version[?]
Box 15
Folder 48
Introduction to In a World They Never Made: Five Black South
African Poets Write About Life in the White-Makes-Right Land of
Apartheid.
Published Playboy. Tear sheet from Playboy, May 1972 (v.19, no.5).
Box 15
Folder 49
Introduction to documentary films Maids & Madams and South
Africa Belongs to Us.
Text as spoken by Gordimer on film
Box 15
Folder 50
Introduction to Sounds of a Cowhide Drum, poems by Oswald Joseph
Mtshali, 1970 .
Carbon typescript of final version
Box 15
Folder 51
Introduction to Uku-Bamba Amadola by Bettie du Toit, 1976 .
Final version
Box 15
Folder 52
Jacket quote for Two Dogs and Freedom.
Black children's drawings and texts collected by Colphine Smuts of
Open School, Ravan Press, 1986. Final version
Box 15
Folder 53
Novel. Unfinished and untitled second novel, about 1951 .
Typed.
Box 15
Folder 54
Preface to Familiarity is the Kingdom of the Lost by Dugmore
Boetie, 1969 .
Final version
Box 15
Folder 55
Preface to When We Are at Home We Dance All Round the House by
Margareta Ekstrom.
Final version
Box 15
Folder 56
Review of Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe, 1988 .
Published in New York Times Book Review and Weekly Mail, Johannesburg.
Final version for NYTBR, marked with cuts for later publication in the
Weekly Mail; proof from Weekly Mail, with note to editor.
Box 15
Folder 57
Review of Episode, by Harry Bloom.
Original rough draft; notebook.
Box 15
Folder 58
Review of The Hajji and Other Stories by Ahmed Essop, 1978 .
Probably written for The Star, Johannesburg. Final version
Box 15
Folder 59
Review of Hourglass by Danilo Kis.
Published by The Observer, London, 1991. First draft; final version as
sent to editor.
Box 15
Folder 60
Review of Idanre and Other Poems by Wole Soyinka, 1967 .
Final version
Box 15
Folder 61
Review of Jo'burg, Sis by Barney Simon.
Original draft; final version
Box 15
Folder 62
Review of The Literature and Thought of Modern Africa by Claude
Wauthier.
Published in The Nation, 1967. Final version
Box 15
Folder 63
Review of The Medicine Man (Swifa Ya Nguvumali), by Hasani Bin
Ismail.
Published in African Studies (2 February 1970). Tear sheet
Box 15
Folder 64
Review of The Mind of South Africa: The Story of the Rise and
Fall of Apartheid by Allister Sparks.
Published in The Observer, London, May 11, 1990. Final
version
Box 15
Folder 65
Review of Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld, 1985 .
Published in the New York Times Book Review. Shortened version
published in Weekly Mail, Johannesburg, Nov. 1985 and titled:
South Africa: Explaining, Rationalizing,
Forgetting
.
Photocopy of first version; final version; final version with cuts for
shortened version; proof from NYTBR, with corrections and annotations
by editor Robert Silvers and Gordimer; shortened version for WM
Box 15
Folder 66
Review of Olive Schreiner, a biography by Ruth First and Anne
Scott.
Published in the The Times Literary Supplement, 1980 and Le
Monde, 1989. Published as a foreword to subsequent editions of
the book. Photocopy; adapted version, for Le Monde
Box 15
Folder 67
Speech and/or article. On use of languages in South Africa.
Final version
Box 15
Folder 68
Speech. Protest meeting on the banning of seven young activists
and of SASPU National, journal of the South African Students Press Union,
1982 .
Original version; final version, with changes; three clippings
reporting event
Box 15
Folder 69
Speech. Ruth First Memorial Meeting, 1982 .
First draft
Box 15
Folder 70
Speech. Writers and Human Rights Conference, Toronto, Oct. 1981 .
Original draft
Box 15
Folder 71
Speech. Graduation address, University of Cape Town, 1986 .
Reading copy
Box 15
Folder 72
Speech. Graduation address, University of the Witwatersrand,
Apr. 28,
1980 .
Original version with introductory note
Box 15
Folder 73
Speech. Orientation Week address for Students Representative
Council, University of the Witwatersrand, Feb. 8, 1982 .
Original and final versions
Box 15
Folder 74
Speech. First line: I have a file on censorship... Probably mid
to late 70s.
Final version
Box 15
Folder 75
Speech. Launch of Ellen Kuzwayo's Call Me Woman and Sue Gordon's
A Talent for Tomorrow: Life Stories of South African Servants, June 1985 .
Original version
Box 15
Folder 76
Speech. To South African P.E.N., n.d. Unpublished.
Final version; fragment of appeal for release of Harry Bloom
Box 15
Folder 77
Speech. Benefit evening in aid of the training scheme PROTEC,
1987 .
Final version as delivered
Box 15
Folder 78
Speech. In honour of Pablo Neruda to the International Forum of
Solidarity with the Culture of Chile, Torun, Poland, 1979 .
Unpublished. Original version as delivered
Box 15
Folder 79
Speech. Opening of David Goldblatt's photographic exhibition
"People and Things," June 3, 1974 .
Reading version
Box 15
Folder 80
Text. To accompany photographs published by Esquire, 1987 .
Final version
Series:
Diaries and Notebooks
(Box 15, folders 81 - 87)
Box 15
Folder 81
Diary, 1934 .
Records the beginning of the illness that caused Gordimer's mother to take
her out of school at age 11, during which time she began to write.
Box 15
Folder 82
Notebook, early 1950s .
Notes for stories, including:
A Bit of Young
Life
,
A Long Walk from Rhodesia,
Visit to a Bachelor,
An Image of Success
Box 15
Folder 83
Diary used as notebook, 1959-1964 .
Notes for Occasion for Loving and The Late Bourgeois World and other
stories.
Box 15
Folder 84-85
Two diaries, 1967 and 1968 , containing sparse notes of when stories were finished,
etc.
Box 15
Folder 86
Pages from notebook, 1980 - 1984 .
Dates at top of each page are those when note was made; dates in margins
record when story was actually written. Working notes, ideas, etc. mostly
for stories included in
Something Out There:
Sins of the Third Age, Crimes of Conscience, A City of the Living, a City of
the Dead, At the Rendezvous of Victory, Something Out There. Notes also for:
Old Stock; Idea for unwritten story--One day, towards the end of my life...;
White girl married to a black... first idea for what became the novel A
Sport of Nature; Love 3, Blinder; Love 4, Bernie du Toit... (unwritten);
Love 2, Terminal; Tourism
Box 15
Folder 87
Notebook, 1986 - 1990 .
Contains all notes, chapter analysis, names, ideas for novel, record of
quotations, etc. for
My Son's Story. Also
contains notes for stories included in
Jump, and
Other Stories
that were written or noted while writing My Son's
Story, including: My Father Leaves Home; Some Are Born to Sweet Delight; The
Moment Before the Gun Went Off; Home; Comrades; A Journey; Keeping Fit.
Miscellaneous other notes including those for an unpublished story A Piece
of History.
Series:
Miscellaneous
Box 16
Folder 1-2
National Union of South African Students. Charter, newsletters,
minutes, 50th Congress minutes
Box 16
Folder 3
"New Philosophers" clippings
Box 16
Folder 4
Photographs of Nadine Gordimer
Box 16
Folder 5
Plomer, William. "Charles Kingsley."
For The Times Literary Supplement?
Box 16
Folder 6
World Literature Today, Volume 52, No. 4 (Autumn 1978 ).
Contains article:
African landscapes: The World of
Nadine Gordimer
, by John Cooke, p.533.
Box 16
Folder 7
Miscellany
Series:
Additions
Papers acquired in 2002.
Box 16
The Burger's Daughter - The House Gun
Box 16
Folder 8-9
The Burger's Daughter [novel]. Viking,
1979 .
Page proofs
Box 16
Folder 10-21
The House Gun [novel]. Bloomsbury, 1998 .
First part of original, pp. 1-97, with notes and corrections; draft;
revised copy; printout before corrections; discarded pages; notes and
corrections; version with additional pages; typescript with corrections,
pp. 36-170.
Box 17
The House Gun (cont.) - Living in Hope and History
Box 17
Folder 1-13
The House Gun (cont.)
Photocopies of draft pages; typed copy (version 2?); final typescript;
final proof; notebook; sources; correspondence and trial translation into
French; miscellaneous related materials.
Box 17
Folder 14
July's People [screenplay]. Viking, 1981 .
Adapted from novel for Roland Joffé, "never filmed"
Box 17
Folder 15-20
Living in Hope and History: Notes From Our
Century
[collection of essays]. Bloomsbury, 1999 .
Drafts
Box 18
Living in Hope and History:… (cont.) - None to Accompany Me
Box 18
Folder 1-13
Living in Hope and History:…
(cont.)
Drafts; hand-corrected typed version; corrections faxed to FSG [Farrar,
Straus and Giroux]; notes and corrections; Master proof, 5/4/99; Master
proof 6/14/99; jacket proof
Box 18
Folder 14-16
My Son's Story [novel]. Bloomsbury, 1990 ; Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1990.
Final proofs; jacket proof
Box 18
Folder 17-20
None to Accompany Me [novel]. Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1994 .
Original; hand-corrected typed version.
Box 19
None to Accompany Me (cont.) - The Pickup
Box 19
Folder 1-9
None to Accompany Me (cont.)
Corrected revised draft; incomplete corrected typescript; discarded
versions of various pages; final version from which proofs were
corrected; notebook; notes; clippings.
Box 19
Folder 10-20
The Pickup [novel]. Bloomsbury, 2001 .
Original; second draft; typed version for word processing; typed part
version with handwritten corrections; copy-edited version from FSG;
drafts; rewrites.
Box 20
The Pickup (cont.)
Box 20
Folder 1-19
The Pickup (cont.)
Rewrite copy; typescript with corrections; penultimate version; final
printout 7/12/2000; final copy for publishing and proof reading; first
pass pages master 3/30/01; proofs; second proofs (final) from FSG, June
2001; master pages 5/15/01; author galleys (incomplete); jacket;
notebook.
Box 21
The Pickup (cont.) - Writing and Being
Box 21
Folder 1-2
The Pickup (cont.). Notes, sources,
correspondence; clippings.
Box 21
Folder 3-4
Selected Stories [short story collection].
Viking Press, 1976
Page proofs
Box 21
Folder 5
Something Out There [story collection].
Viking, 1983 .
Final copy
Box 21
Folder 6
A Sport of Nature [novel]. J. Cape, 1987 ; Knopf,
1987.
Incomplete draft?
Box 21
Folder 7-16
Writing and Being [series: Charles Eliot
Norton Lectures, 1994]. Harvard University Press, 1995
Notebook (sources); drafts; corrected typescripts; reading copies,
Oct.-Dec. 1994; penultimate version; final version; final copy; proof;
jacket design and correspondence.
Box 29
Correspondence - Gutsche, Thelma, 1950-1973
Box 22
Russell and Volkening Correspondence
1950-1951
1952
1954-1956
1956-1957
1958
1960
1961
1962-1963
1965
1966-1971
1972-1973
1974-1975
1976-1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1983
Box 23
1984
1993
1996
1997
Gordimer - Schwerrin Negotiations, 1976-1978
Writings
Crimes of Conscience
Reviews
The Essential Gesture
Reviews
House Gun Movie Rights
House Gun Reviews
July's People Screenplay
Living in Hope and History
Reviews
My Son's Story
My Son's Story Reviews
New York Times Syndicate
None to Accompany Me Publicity and
Reviews
A Soldier's Embrace Copyright
Registration
A Sport of Nature Proofs
(3 folders)
A Sport of Nature Proofs
(10 folders)
A Sport of Nature Reviews
Telling Tales
(2 folders)
A World of Strangers Copyright
Registration
Box 28
Short Writings
Allesverloren
Afterlie
Alternate Endings
Another Life
The Art of Fiction LXXVII
At Last - Luangwa
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth
Black
A Beneficiary
Burger's Daughter
Bush-Craft
The Changed Face of South
Africa
A Conference with Some
Answers
Contribution on Wole
Soyinka
The Diamond Mine
Dreaming of the Dead
An Emissary
For Dear Life
A Frivolous Woman
From Apartheid to
Afrocentrism
The Games Room
Gemini
The Generation Gap
Gregor
Hemingway's Expatriates: A Way of Lookin at
the World
His Girls
History
A Hunting Accident
Introduction to 'Almayer's
Folly'
Introduction: Nadine Godimer: Troy
Lecture
Introduction to Naguib
Maufauz
Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of Empire and
Exile
Letters to a Daughter
The Life and Death of a Male
Body
Living with a Writer
Look That's Me, with Lydia
Loot
L, U, C, I, E
A Mad One
The Main Course
Mission Statement
Mother Tongue
Nadine Gordimer: A Writing
Life
The Need for Something
Sweet
Newspaper Articles
No Time Like the Present
Our Common Earth: Planet
Earth
Parking Tax
Partnerships: The World Against
AIDS
Plenty
Prison Letters to a
Daughter
Read All About Us?: The Media and the Image of
Africa
Reference: The Codes of
Culture
Safety Procedures
Second Coming
The Second Sense
Separate
Siblings
A South African Childhood
Tape Measure
The Termitary
Thirst
The Third Sense
Unidentified Writings
(2 folders)
Violence and Mr. DeKlerk's Line of
Duty
Visiting George
What's New on the Rialto?
Whose 'Agent of Influence'?
Witness: The Inward
Testimony
Witness: Past or Present?
You Name It
Box 29
Re:
A Present for a Good Girl, correspondence and financial documents,1955-1993
Re:
Friday's Footprint, correspondence and financial documents,1959-1976
Re:
Not for Publication, correspondence and financial documents, 1965-1991
Re:
Occasion for Loving, correspondence and financial documents, 1962-1969
Re:
Six Feet of the Country, correspondence and financial documents, 1955-1990
Re:
The Late Bourgeois World, correspondence and financial documents, 1966
Re:
The Lying Days, correspondence and financial documents, 1953-1961
Re:
The Soft Voice of the Serpent, correspondence and financial documents, 1959-1990
Re:
World of Strangers, correspondence and financial documents, 1957-1984
Miscellaneous
Box 28
Ken French Films Contract
Manuscript Publication Notes
Photographs
Royalty Statements
(6 folders)
Box 29
Clippings re: Gordimer, family, and friends, 1949-1973
Wedding invitation, 6 March 1949
Index to Titles
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View All (364)
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A
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Abroad Box 4, f. 27; Box 10, f. 23; Box 12, f.
2
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Achebe, Gift of Africa See: At the Crossroads of
Cultures
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Across the Veld Box 4, f. 28
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Africa 1960: The Great Period See: Congo
-
Africa Emergent Box 4, f. 29; Box 10, f. 23; Box
12, f. 2
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The African Magician Box 4, f. 30; Box 12, f. 2,
8
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African Literature See: The Black Interpreters:
Notes on African Writing
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The African Pot Box 4, f. 31
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African Writing See: The Black Interpreters:
Notes on African Writing
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After Apartheid: Black and White in a New South Africa
Box 4, f. 32
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Ah, Woe is Me Box 12, f. 2
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Alberto Moravia's Africa Box 4, f. 33
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Allan Boesak: Choosing for Justice Box 4, f. 34 -
36
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Amnesty Box 4, f. 37; Box 9, f. 21, 23; Box 10,
f. 1 - 7
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ApartheidBox 4, f. 38
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Apartheid, the Agitator Box 4, f. 39
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Apprentices of Freedom See: Relevance and
Commitment
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Art and Change Box 4, f. 40
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As I See South Africa Today Box 4, f. 41
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At Last--Luangwa! Box 4, f. 42
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At the Crossroads of Cultures Box 4, f. 43
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At the Rendezvous of Victory Box 13, f. 25, 36,
37; Box 14, f. 3; Box 15, f. 85
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At three o'clock in the morning someone wakes me [first
line]
Box 4, f. 25
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B
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Babe Box 4, f. 25
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Balancing Rocks Box 4, f. 44
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A Beautiful Day, Com Box 4, f. 45
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Benoni--Son of Sorrow Box 4, f. 46
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A Bit of Young Life Box 12, f. 2; Box 13, f. 12;
Box 15, f. 80
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The Black Interpreters: Notes on African Writing
Box 4, f. 47 - 51; Box 5, f. 1 - 7
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Blinder See: Love Stories: Blinder and
Terminal
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A Bolter and the Invincible Summer See: Leaving
School: A Bolter and the Invincible Summer
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The Bride of Christ Box 5, f. 8; Box 10, f.
23
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The Bridegroom Box 7, f. 19, 21; Box 12, f.
2
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A Brilliant Bigot Box 5, f. 9
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Burger's Daughter Box 5, f. 10 - Box 6, f. 10;
Box 16, f. 8-9; See also: What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South
African Censorship Works
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Bush-craft Box 6, f. 11
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By the Light of 10,000 Bulbs Box 6, f. 12
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C
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Catalogue of the Ridiculous See: A Morning in a
Library
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The Catch Box 12, f. 2; Box 13, f. 18
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Censors, Poets, and ApartheidBox 6, f. 13
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Censorship and Its Aftermath Box 6, f. 14
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Censorship--The Final Solution Box 6, f.
15
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Charmed Lives Box 13, f. 12
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Check Yes or No Box 7, f. 19, 21
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Chief Luthuli Box 6, f. 16, 17
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Children with the House to Themselves Box 6, f.
18
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A Chip of Glass Ruby Box 6, f. 19; Box 12, f. 2,
8; Box 13, f. 14 - 17
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A Christmas in the South Box 6, f. 20
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The Cicatrice Box 13, f. 12
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City Lovers Box 6, f. 27; Box 13, f. 14 -
17
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A City of the Dead, a City of the Living Box 13,
f. 27, 37; Box 14, f. 1, 3; Box 15, f. 85
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Clowns in Clover Box 13, f. 12
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The Colour of Want Box 6, f. 22
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A Company of Laughing Faces Box 6, f. 23; Box 12,
f. 2, 8
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Comrades Box 9, f. 21, 23; Box 10, f. 1 - 7; Box
15, f. 86
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Congo Box 6, f. 24 - 26
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The Conservationist [novel] Box 6, f. 27 -
34
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The Conservationist [short story] Box 6, f.
35
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A Correspondence Course [script] Box 6, f.
37
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A Correspondence Course [short story] Box 6, f.
36; Box 13, f. 28; Box 14, f. 1, 3
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Country Lovers Box 6, f. 38 - 43; Box 13, f. 14 -
17
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The Credibility Gap Box 6, f. 33, 44; Box 10, f.
23
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Crimes of Conscience Box 13, f. 29, 37; Box 14,
f. 1, 3; Box 15, f. 85
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D
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David Goldblatt--So Far Box 7, f. 1
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A Day in My Life Box 7, f. 2
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Death, Love and the Fruit-Basket on Carmen Miranda's
Head
Box 7, f. 3
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The Delmas Trial Box 7, f. 4
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Diagonal Street Box 7, f. 5 - 8
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Divers with Bloodshot Eyes Box 7, f. 9
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The Dogs Box 7, f. 10
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Don Mattera Box 7, f. 11
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E
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The English Novel in South Africa See: The Novel
and the Nation
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English-Language Literature and Politics in South Africa
Box 7, f. 12, 13
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The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility
Box 7, f. 14
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F
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Face From Atlantis Box 13, f. 12
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A Find Box 9, f. 21, 23; Box 10, f. 1 - 7
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The First Circle Box 4, f. 22
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The Fischer Case Box 7, f. 15
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The Flash of Fireflies Enclosed in Gordimer to
George Lanning, Jan. 11, 1968
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The Flickering Image: Cinema and the Rights of Man in
South Africa
Box 7, f. 16
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For Andrina Destiny Was Bitter Box 7, f.
17
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For Dear Life Box 7, f. 18; Box 13, f. 20
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Friday's Footprint [short story] Box 7, f. 19,
21; Box 12, f. 2
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Friday's Footprint [short story collection] Box
7, f. 19 - 22
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From Apartheid to Afrocentrism Box 7, f.
23
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G
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The Gentle Art Box 7, f. 19, 21; Box 12, f.
2
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Germany to Me Box 7, f. 24
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Gold and the Gun Box 7, f. 25 - 34; See also: The
Ingot and the Stick, the Ingot and the Gun
-
Golden Reclining Nudes of the Desert Box 7, f.
35
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Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants [film] Box 7,
f. 36
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Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants [short story]
Box 12, f. 2, 9
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Gore-Browne of Zambia: Bwana with a Difference
Box 7, f. 37
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Great Problems in the Street Box 7, f. 38
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Guarding the Gates of Paradise Box 8, f. 1
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A Guest of Honour Box 8, f. 2 - 7; Box 10, f.
32
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The Guilt of Loving See: Friday's Footprint
[short story]
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H
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Happy Event Box 12, f. 2; Box 13, f. 16
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Harry's PresenceBox 7, f. 20
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The Hero Box 4, f. 25
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Hillela--A Sport See: A Sport of Nature
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Home Box 8, f. 8; Box 9, f. 21, 23; Box 10, f. 1
- 7; Box 15, f. 86
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Homecoming See: No Place Like
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Horn of Plenty Box 13, f. 12
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The House Gun Box 16, f. 10 - 21; Box 17, f. 1 -
13
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How Not to Know the African Box 8, f. 9
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Huddleston: A Sign Box 8, f. 10
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A Hunting Accident Box 8, f. 11; Box 13, f.
20
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I
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I Am Pascale Box 8, f. 12
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The Idea of Gardening Box 8, f. 13
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An Image of Success Box 7, f. 20, 21; Box 15, f.
81
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The Images and the Man See: Sorting the Images
from the Man
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In Celebration of Patrick White Box 8, f.
14
-
The Ingot and the Stick, the Ingot and the GunBox
8, f. 15; See also: Gold and the Gun
-
Inkalamu's Place Box 8, f. 16; Box 10, f.
23
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The Interpreters: Some Themes and Directions in Modern
African Fiction
See: The Black Interpreters
-
The Interpreters: Theme as Communication in the African
Novel
Box 8, f. 17
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Intimate Environs Box 8, f. 18
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An Intruder Box 8, f. 19; Box 10, f. 23; Box 12,
f. 2
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An Island of RockBox 8, f. 20
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It Might Happen This Way... Box 4, f. 25
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J
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A JourneyBox 8, f. 21; box 9, f. 21, 23; Box 10,
f. 1-7; Box 15, f. 86
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Journey to the Shore of the Dead Box 8, f.
22
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July's People [novel] Box 8, f. 23 - Box 9, f.
7
-
July's People [screenplay] Box 9, f. 8 - 20; Box
17, f. 14
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Jump Box 9, f. 21, 23; Box 10, f. 1 - 7
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Jump, and Other Stories Box 9, f. 21 - Box 10, f.
7; Box 15, f. 86
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K
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Keeping Fit Box 9, f. 23; Box 15, f. 86
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Kurt Jobst Box 10, f. 8
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L
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The Land Not of Our Brothers Box 10, f. 9
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The Last Kiss Box 7, f. 20, 21; Box 12, f.
2
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The Late Bourgeois World [novel] Box 10, f. 10,
11; Box 15, f. 82
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The Late Bourgeois World [screenplay] Box 10, f.
12
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Leaving School: A Bolter and the Invincible Summer
Box 10, f. 13
-
Letter from His Father Box 13, f. 30, 37; Box 14,
f. 2, 3
-
A Letter from Johannesburg Box 10, f. 14; See
also: Sorting the Images from the Man
-
Letter from South Africa Box 10, f. 15
-
A Letter from the 153rd State Box 10, f.
16
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Liberation Knocks Twice See: Tanzania: People,
Not Money
-
The Life of the Imagination Box 10, f. 17, 24;
Box 12, f. 2
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A Lion on the FreewayBox 13, f. 20
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Little Willie Box 7, f. 20; Box 10, f. 18
-
Living Conditions: In the Interregnum See: Living
in the Interregnum
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Living in Hope and History: Notes From Our Century
Box 17, f. 15-20; Box 18, f. 1-13
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Living in the Interregnum Box 10, f. 19 -
22
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Livingstone's Companions [short story] Box 10, f.
24; Box 12, f. 2
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Livingstone's Companions [short story
collection]
Box 10, f. 23 - 27
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Long Walk from Rhodesia Box 15, f. 81
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Look That's Me, with Lydia Box 10, f. 28
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Lourenco Marques: The Little Escape Box 10, f.
29
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Love Stories: Blinder and Terminal Box 13, f. 31,
37; Box 14, f. 1, 3; Box 15, f. 85
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Lying Days Box 10, f. 30
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M
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A Mad One Box 10, f. 31; Box 13, f. 20
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Madagascar Box 10, f. 32
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The Magic of the Script Box 10, f. 33
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Making Oneself Over: The Swedish Way Box 10, f.
34
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A Man of Africa (enclosed in Gordimer to Tony and
Robert, Jan. 5, 1976)
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Man of the Year--Nelson Mandela Box 10, f.
35
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A Meeting in Space Box 10, f. 25, 36
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A Memory of Richard Rive Box 10, f. 37
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The Menace of the YearsBox 13, f. 18
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Merci Dieu, It Changes Box 10, f. 38
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Message in a Bottle Box 10, f. 39; Box 12, f.
9
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The Metaphor of Exile Box 10, f. 40
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The Moment Before the Gun Went Off Box 9, f. 21,
23; Box 10, f. 1 - 7; Box 15, f. 86
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More Than a Writer? Box 10, f. 41
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A Morning in a Library Box 10, f. 42
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My Father Leaves Home Box 9, f. 21, 23; Box 10,
f. 1 - 7; Box 15, f. 86
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My First Two Women Box 13, f. 13
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My Son's Story Box 11, f. 1 - 15; Box 15, f. 86;
Box 18, f. 14 - 16
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The Mysterious Incest Box 11, f. 16
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N
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Naipaul's Freedom Box 11, f. 17
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Native Country Box 11, f. 18; Box 12, f. 9
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The Need for Something Sweet Box 6, f. 8; Box 11,
f. 19; Box 13, f. 20
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Neighbors and Friends Box 11, f. 20; Box 12, f.
9
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New Black Poetry in South Africa See: The Black
Interpreters
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New Forms of Strategy--No Change of Heart Box 11,
f. 21
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New Notes from the Underground Box 11, f.
22
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The Next-to-Last Testament of Nadine GordimerBox
11, f. 23
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Nice Box 11, f. 24
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The Night the Favourite Came Home Box 7, f. 21;
Box 12, f. 2
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No Place Like [short story] Box 10, f. 25; Box
12, f. 1, 2
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No Place Like [short story collection] Box 12, f.
2
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No Place Like: Johannesburg Box 12, f. 3 -
5
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None to Accompany Me Box 18, f. 17 - 20; Box 19,
f. 1 - 9
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Not for Publication [short story] Box 12, f. 2,
7, 9; See also: Praise
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Not for Publication, and Other Stories Box 12, f.
8 - 13
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A Note on Women and Literature in South Africa
Box 12, f. 14
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Notes for the Definitive Biography: Not for Publication
See: Not for Publication [short story]
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Notes of an ExpropriatorBox 12, f. 15
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The Novel and the NationBox 12, f. 16, 17
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O
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Occasion for Loving Box 12, f. 18 - 24; Box 15,
f. 82
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Old Stock Box 15, f. 85
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Old Times' Sake Box 4, f. 26
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The Old World and the New World Box 4, f.
25
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On and Off the Banned List Box 12, f. 25
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On Sunday mornings in Johannesburg I take a bus
somewhere [first line]
Box 4, f. 25
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On the Mines See: Witwatersrand: A Time and
Tailings
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Once Upon a Time Box 9, f. 22, 23; Box 10, f. 1 -
7
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One Whole Year and Even More Box 12, f. 10,
25
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Open House [script] Box 12, f. 28
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Open House [short story] Box 10, f. 25; Box 12,
f. 2, 27
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Oral History Box 12, f. 29; Box 13, f. 20; See
also: Seek and Destroy
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Orientation--Towards What? Box 12, f. 30
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Otherwise Birds Fly in Box 10, f. 26; Box 12, f.
31
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Our BovaryBox 7, f. 20, 21
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Our Violent Society, Local and Overseas Perspectives
Box 12, f. 32
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Out of Season Box 13, f. 13
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Out of the Walls See: The Intruder
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P
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Pack Up, Black Man Box 12, f. 33
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The Path of the Moon's Dark Fortnight Box 7, f.
20
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The Peace of Respectability Box 13, f. 18
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The Pearl of Manet Box 23, f. 34
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The Pet Box 12, f. 10
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The Pickup Box 19, f. 10 - 20; Box 20, f. 1 - 19;
Box 21, f. 1 - 2
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A Piece of History Box 15, f. 86
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Plenty Box 12, f. 35
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Policing the University: The Threat in South Africa
Box 12, f. 36
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The Political Novel in Africa See: Politics as
Fate
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Politics as Fate Box 5, f. 1
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Praise Box 12, f. 37 - 39; Box 13, f. 14 -
17
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A Private Apprenticeship Box 12, f. 40
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The Problems of Apartheid Box 12, f. 41
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Problems of the Novelist in South Africa Today
Box 12, f. 42
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Profile: Abram Fischer See: The Fischer
Case
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PulaBox 12, f. 43
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Q
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The Quest for Sun Gold Box 4, f. 21
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R
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Rags and Bones Box 13, f. 1, 32, 37; Box 14, f.
1, 3
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Rain-Queen Box 10, f. 26; Box 12, f. 2; Box 13,
f. 2
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References: The Codes of Culture Box 13, f.
3
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Relevance and Commitment Box 13, f. 4
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Role of the Creative Writer in AfricaSee: The
Black Interpreters
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S
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Safe Houses Box 9, f. 22, 23; Box 10, f. 1 -
7
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A Satisfactory Settlement Box 13, f. 5
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Say Something African See: A Meeting in
Space
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Scar See: The Cicatrice
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Seek and Destroy Box 13, f. 6 - 9; See also: Oral
History
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Selected Stories Box 21, f. 3 - 4
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Seven Women Artists Box 13, f. 10
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The Shoes Box 4, f. 25
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Siblings Box 13, f. 11, 20
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Sins of the Third Age Box 13, f. 33, 37; Box 14,
f. 1, 3; Box 15, f. 85
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Six Feet of the Country [film] Box 13, f. 14 -
17
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Six Feet of the Country [film series] Box 13, f.
14 - 17
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Six Feet of the Country [short story] Box 12, f.
2; Box 13, f. 13
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Six Feet of the Country [short story collection]
Box 13, f. 12, 13
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The Skeleton at the Australian Feast See: The
Mysterious Incest
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The Sleep and the Waking Box 4, f. 25
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The Smell of Death and Flowers Box 12, f. 2; Box
13, f. 13
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The Soft Voice of the Serpent Box 12, f. 2
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The Soft Voice of the Serpent, and Other Stories
Box 13, f. 18
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Soldier's Embrace [short story] Box 13, f. 19,
21
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Soldier's Embrace [short story collection] Box
13, f. 20-22
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Some are Born to Sweet Delight Box 9, f. 22, 23;
Box 10, f. 1 - 7; Box 15, f. 86
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Some Monday for Sure Box 12, f. 2, 10; Box 13, f.
23
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Something for the Time Being [film] Box 13, f.
24
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Something for the Time Being [short story] Box
12, f. 2
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Something Out There [film] Box 14, f. 3
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Something Out There [novella] Box 13, f. 33, 34,
38; Box 14, f. 1; Box 15, f. 85
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Something Out There [story collection] Box 13, f.
25 - Box 14, f. 2; Box 15, f. 85
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Something Unexpected Box 14, f. 4
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Son-in-Law Box 12, f. 11; Box 14, f. 5
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Songololo Box 14, f. 6
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Sorting the Images from the Man Box 14, f.
7
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The South Africa I Want Box 14, f. 8
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South Africa: Explaining, Rationalizing, Forgetting
Box 15, f. 64
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South Africa: The Way Writers Live Now Box 14, f.
9
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South Africa: Towards a Desk Drawer Literature
Box 14, f. 10
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A South African Childhood Box 14, f. 11
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Speak Out: The Necessity for Protest Box 14, f.
12
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Spoils Box 9, f. 22, 23; Box 10, f. 1 - 7; Box
14, f. 13
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A Sport of Nature Box 14, f. 14 - 26; Box 15, f.
85; Box 21, f. 6
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Spring Box 4, f. 21
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A Stinging Touch of Local Colour Box 14, f.
27
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Story from the Top Shelf Box 14, f. 28
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Stranger in Town Box 14, f. 29
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A Style of Her Own Box 7, f. 20, 21
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Sweet Dreams SelectionBox 14, f. 30
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T
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A Tang of Smoke and Indigo Box 14, f. 31
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Tanzania: People, Not Money Box 14, f. 32
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Tenants of the Last Tree House Box 12, f. 11; Box
15, f. 1
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Teraloyna Box 9, f. 22, 23; Box 10, f. 1 -
7
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Terminal See: Love Stories: Blinder and
Terminal
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The Termitary Box 13, f. 21; Box 15, f. 2
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They were back home again, all three of them [first
line]
Box 4, f. 25
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A Thing of the Past Box 7, f. 20, 21
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A Third Presence Box 10, f. 26; Box 15, f.
3
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Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics Box
15, f. 4
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Through Time and Distance [film script] Box 15,
f. 6
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Through Time and Distance [short story] Box 12,
f. 11; Box 15, f. 5
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Time and Tailings See: Witwatersrand: A Time and
Tailings
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Time Did Box 13, f. 21; Box 15, f. 7
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Tourism Box 13, f. 37; Box 14, f. 1; Box 15, f.
8, 85
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Towards the Heart of Darkness: Congo River
Journey
See: Congo
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Town and Country Lovers Box 13, f. 21; Box 15, f.
9
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The Train from Rhodesia Box 12, f. 2
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Transkei: A Vision of Two Blood-Red Suns Box 15,
f. 10
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The Triumph of Memory Box 15, f. 11 29th October,
1989--A Beautiful Day, Com See: A Beautiful Day, Com
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The Two Souths--One World Box 15, f. 12
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U
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The Ultimate Safari Box 9, f. 22, 23; Box 10, f.
1 - 7
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Unchaining Poets Box 15, f. 13
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Unconfessed History Box 15, f. 14
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V
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The Valley Legend Box 4, f. 21
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The Value of a Conference Box 15, f. 15
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A View from the River See: Friday's Footprint
[short story]
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A View of the Nile Box 15, f. 16
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Vision of Two Blood-Red Suns See: Transkei: A
Vision of Two Blood-Red Suns
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The Visit Box 15, f. 17
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Visit to a Bachelor Box 15, f. 81
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Vital Statistics Box 12, f. 12; Box 15, f.
18
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Vladimir Ledochowski, Man of Two Worlds Box 15,
f. 19
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The Voices We May Not Hear See: How Not to Know
the African
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W
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A Watcher of the Dead Box 13, f. 18
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Waterford School: The Riches of Human Variety Box
15, f. 20
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West African DiarySee: Merci Dieu, It
Changes
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What Being a South African Means to Me Box 15, f.
21
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What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African
Censorship Works
Box 15, f. 22 - 27
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What is a Writer's Freedom? Box 15, f. 28
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What is African Writing? See: The Black
Interpreters
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What Shall I Write About? See: Writing and
Writers in South Africa
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What Were You Dreaming? Box 9, f. 22, 23; Box 10,
f. 1 - 7
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When I Lost My Innocence Box 15, f. 29
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Where Do Whites Fit in? Box 15, f. 30
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Which New Era Would That Be? Box 12, f. 2; Box
13, f. 13
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The White Goddess and the Mealie Question Box 13,
f. 13
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Who Writes? Who Reads? The Concept of a People's
Literature
Box 15, f. 31
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Why Haven't You Written? Box 10, f. 26; Box 15,
f. 32
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With Open Eyes Box 15, f. 33
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Witwatersrand: A Time and Tailings Box 15, f.
34
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The Worst Thing of All Box 12, f. 12; Box 15, f.
35
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The Writer in South Africa Today Box 15, f.
36
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A Writer's Freedom See: What is a Writer's
Freedom?
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The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the
State
Box 15, f. 37
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Writers in South Africa See: South Africa: The
Way Writers Live Now
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Writers in South Africa: The New Black Poets See:
The Black Interpreters
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The Writer's Responsibility See: The Essential
Gesture: Writers and Responsibility
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Writing and Being Box 21, f. 7 - 16
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Writing and Writers in South Africa Box 15, f.
38
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Writing in Africa: Nadine Gordimer Interviewed...
Box 15, f. 39
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Y
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You Name It [short story] Box 13, f. 21; Box 15,
f. 40
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You Name It [television script] Box 15, f.
41
