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Weldon mss., 1946-1989

Papers, 1946-1989, of Fay Weldon at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Electronic finding aid encoded by Beth Benda and Ryan K. Lee.

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly

Creator
Weldon, Fay.

Title
Weldon mss.,1946-1989

Collection no
LMC 2426

Extent
20,000 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
Consists of the papers of British author and playwright Fay Weldon. Weldon has written novels, short stories, scripts for the stage, radio and television, including several episodes for the popular television series Upstairs, Downstairs and adaptations of novels by other writers to the stage and screen.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Purchase. 1989.
Usage Restrictions
Prior 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], Weldon mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Biographical Note
Fay Weldon (1931-), British author and playwright, was born Franklin Birkinshaw to a literary family in Alvechurch, England, on September 22, 1931. After living the first fourteen years of her life in Auckland, New Zealand, where her father worked as a doctor, Weldon's parents divorced and she moved to England to live with her mother and her sister. After the birth of her first son, Nicholas, and a subsequent failed marriage to Ronald Bateman, Weldon started working in the advertising industry to support herself and her son. At the age of 29 she married Ronald Weldon, with whom she had three more sons, and later began a career of writing for radio and television. In 1967, Weldon published her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke .

Over the next thirty years, Fay Weldon built a very successful career, publishing over 20 novels, collections of short stories, television movies, newspaper and magazine articles, and became a well-known voice on BBC radio. She has achieved various honors, including the Giles Cooper Award for best radio play, 1978, for Polaris and the Booker McConnell Prize nomination, 1979, for her novel Praxis.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of the papers of British author and playwright Fay Weldon. Weldon has written novels, short stories, scripts for the stage, radio and television, including several episodes for the popular television series Upstairs, Downstairs and adaptations of novels by other writers to the stage and screen. This collection includes correspondence, writings, photographs, printed materials, clippings, and miscellaneous ephemera.

Arrangement/Organization

This collection is organized in the following series: I. Correspondence, 1946-1989. II. Writings (including scripts, short stories, essays, articles, novels, adaptations, and writings by other authors). III. Photographs. iV. Miscellaneous materials. V. Printed materials. VI. Clippings.

  • Indexing Terms

  • 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.

    • Names
    • Weldon, Fay --Correspondence.

Related Material

See also Weldon mss. II


Series: Correspondence

Includes correspondence with colleagues, friends, publishers, agents, British Broadcasting Company, etc. It is arranged chronologically and is not indexed.


Box 1 1946-1982 

Box 2 1983-1989 

Series: Writings

Subseries: Scripts, short stories, essays, articles, novels, adaptations

Arranged alphabetically.


Box 2
Folder 30

Act of Rape (television play).

Rehearsal script


Box 2
Folder 31-32

Action Replay (stage play).

Holograph, typescripts, carbons, program, ad.


Box 3
Folder 1-3

Action Replay,

continued


Box 3
Folder 4-6

Affairs of Love: D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Weekley (television play).

Carbon, photocopy of revised script, rehearsal script.


Box 3
Folder 7

Against the Crowd: Poor Baby (television play).

Rehearsal script. 1/1975


Box 3
Folder 8-11

Airline: Episode 9 - Not Much of a Life (television series).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, rehearsal script, film call sheet.

(See also: Writings by Others. Greatorex, Wilfred)


Box 3
Folder 12-13

Alan's Story - Armchair 30 (television play).

Camera script, reading copy, two rehearsal scripts.


Box 3
Folder 14-16

All the Bells of Paradise (television play).

Holograph, typescript, three rehearsal scripts.


Box 3
Folder 17

"Alopecia" (short story).

Carbon with revisions

(see also: Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories ) Alternative Societies (article). Holograph


Box 3
Folder 18

Amber's Luck, No. 1: Egg Mayonnaise (television play).

Carbon.


Box 3
Folder 19

"Angel, All Innocence" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon

(see also: Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories )


Box 3
Folder 20

Ask Your Father (stage play).

Holograph, typescript, carbon

(see also: Down Amongst the Women)


Box 3
Folder 21

"The Asylum Murder" (short story).

Typescript


Box 3
Folder 22

"Au Pair" (short story).

Holograph, typescript


Box 3
Folder 23

The Au-Pair Girl, or Who Kissed Whom in the Dark Last Night (script).

Typescript/holograph.


Box 3
Folder 24-25

Aunt Tatty - Ten from the Twenties (television play).

Carbon, photocopy.


Box 3
Folder 26

The Bailiff's Daughter (radio play).

Typescript


Box 3
Folder 27

"Baked Alaska, or Eating Brains With a Teaspoon" (short story).

Typescript


Box 3
Folder 28-33

The Balkan Trilogy (television series).

Synopsis.

Holograph


Episode 1: Bucharest.

Holograph


Episode 2: The Centre of Things.

Holograph


Episode 5: Betrayed.

Holograph


Episode ?: untitled

Typescript with revisions


Episode ?: untitled

Holograph


Box 3
Folder 34

"Bath Speech."

Holograph, typescript


Box 4
Folder 1

"Beards and the Man" (short story).

Carbon


Box 4
Folder 2-3

"Bedside Guardian" (article).

Holograph, typescript, fax copy, research materials.


Box 4
Folder 4-8

The Best Kind of Love (unpublished novel).

Typescript, typescript with revisions. 6/1958.


Box 4
Folder 9

"A Better Read: Women-On-Women," with Carmen Calill, Zoe Fairbairns, Fay Weldon (script for television interview).

Camera script


Box 4
Folder 10

"Birthday" (short story).

Holograph

(see also: Polaris and Other Stories)


Box 4
Folder 11

"Blackwell's Literary Lunch" (speech).

Typescript with revisions. 3/24/1987


Box 4
Folder 12

The Blonde Wig (script).

Typescript with revisions.


Box 4
Folder 13

"The Booker Dinner, Not the Booker Dinner, or Biting the Hand That Feeds You" (article for Journalist).

Typescript.


Box 4
Folder 14

"Booker Prize" (speech).

Holograph


Box 4
Folder 15-18

Books, Plays, Poems (radio plays).

If I Could Only Find the Words.

Rehearsal script. Spring, 1972


Trilogy of School Life:

Episode 1: Yes, Mother.

Holograph, typescript. 1977


Episode 2: Thank you, Mother.

Holograph, typescript, rehearsal script. Spring, 1977


Episode 3: No, Mother.

Holograph, typescript, rehearsal script. Spring, 1977


Box 4
Folder 19

"The Bottom Line and the Sharp End" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions. July 1984

(see also: Polaris and Other Stories)


Box 4
Folder 20

A Box of Things (television play).

Holograph


Box 4
Folder 21-24

"Breakages" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, typescript, carbon, photocopy.

(see also: Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories )


Box 4
Folder 25-26

Bright Smiler (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions. 9/1984.


Box 4
Folder 27-28

Bring on the Girls (television play) Episode 2: Chickabiddy!

Holograph, typescript with revisions, rehearsal script. 9/1977.


Box 4
Folder 29-31

The Butcher's Boy (play).

Holograph, draft, typescript, photocopy.


Box 4
Folder 32-39

A Catching Complaint (television play).

Holograph, typescript, carbon, rehearsal script. 3/1966.


Box 5
Folder 1

Cautionary Tales - Living for Ever (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 5
Folder 2-4

"The Changing Face of Fiction" (lecture).

Holograph, typescripts. 5/9/1988.


Box 5
Folder 5

Christmas (stage play).

Typescript


Box 5
Folder 6

"The Christmas Experience" (article).

Holograph


Box 5
Folder 7-9

"Christmas Lists" (short story).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions. 11/1982.

(see also: Polaris and Other Stories)


Box 5
Folder 10

"Christmas Roots" (short story).

Holograph


Box 5
Folder 11

"The City of Invention" (essays in Jane Austen).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 5
Folder 12

Common Ground

Box 5
Folder 13-31

The Cloning of Joanna May (novel).

Holograph, typescripts with revisions, proof, dust jacket, poster, puzzle.


Box 6
Folder 1-7

The Cloning of Joanna May (novel).

Box 6
Folder 8

"Cold War" (short story).

Typescript with revisions


Box 6
Folder 9

"The Coming of the Power Station" (essay).

Holograph, research materials


Box 6
Folder 10

"The Common Cause of Colds" (essay).

Typescript with revisions


Box 6
Folder 11

"Common Ground" (short story).

Holograph


Box 6
Folder 12

"Consider Araminta" (short story).

Bound holograph, typescript


Box 6
Folder 13

Conversation Piece (television play).

Typescript


Box 6
Folder 14

Cross Purposes (television play).

Typescript


Box 6
Folder 15

Danger Money (television play).

Revised typescript.


Box 6
Folder 16

"Daphne du Maurier" (essay).

Holograph, typescript


Box 6
Folder 17

"Darning Trouble" (short story).

Typescript. 11/1957


Box 6
Folder 18

"A Day in the Life of Several People" (short story).

Holograph, carbon typescript


Box 6
Folder 19-20

Day of Atonement (novel?).

Holograph, typescript.


Box 6
Folder 21

"The Day the Fish Came" (essay).

Typescript


Box 6
Folder 22

"The Day the World Came to Somerset" (short story).

Holograph, typescript


Box 6
Folder 23-25

Demon Patience (play).

Holograph, typescripts with revisions 9/1967.


Box 6
Folder 26

"Didn't Touch It For Years..." (short story).

Typescript


Box 6
Folder 27

"Discipline" (article).

Typescript with revisions 2/1986.


Box 6
Folder 28

Dr. de Waldo's Therapy (television play).

Holograph, cover page of camera script


Box 6
Folder 29-32

The Doctors (television series).

Episode 5: Sunday.

Holograph, typescript, carbon


Episode 6: untitled

Holograph, mimeo story line


Episode 17: untitled

Holograph, carbon


Episode 18: untitled

Carbon

(see also: Writings By Others. Bull, Donald)


Box 6
Folder 33

The Doctor's Wife (radio play).

Rehearsal script. 1975.

(see also: Remember Me)


Box 6
Folder 34-37

The Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen (script by Weldon).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions


Box 7
Folder 1-8

Down Amongst the Women (novel).

Holograph, typescript with revised carbon.

(see also: Ask Your Father)


Box 7
Folder 9

"Down the Clinical Disco" (short story).

Holograph


Box 7
Folder 10

Eleventh Hour - Episode 5: Keeping Calm (television series).

Rehearsal script


Box 7
Folder 11

"Fall of the Dark Lord" (essay).

Holograph


Box 7
Folder 12-16

Fanny, by Erica Jong (film script by Weldon).

Holograph, typescript draft


Box 7
Folder 17-25

The Fat Woman's Joke (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, carbon, galleys, dust jackets.

(see also: The Fat Woman's Tale)


Box 7
Folder 26-30

The Fat Woman's Tale (play).

Typescript with revised typescript, carbon, rehearsal script, program in German.

(see also: The Fat Woman's Joke)


Box 8
Folder 1-7

Female Friends (novel).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 8
Folder 8

"Feminist Archive" (speech).

Holograph, fax copy


Box 8
Folder 9

Fin de Siecle (television play).

Holograph (incomplete)


Box 8
Folder 10

Flapper (television play).

Holograph


Box 8
Folder 11

"Folio debate" (speech before The Folio Society).

Holograph, typescript


Box 8
Folder 12-14

For Love Alone, by Christina Stead (film script by Weldon).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions


Box 8
Folder 15-16

The 45th Unmarried Mother (television play).

Holograph, camera script.


Box 8
Folder 17

"The Fulfillment of Love" (short story).

Typescript


Box 8
Folder 18

"The Future for the Writer" (speech).

Holograph, typescript with revisions.


Box 8
Folder 19

"A Gentle Tonic Effect" (short story).

Holograph, fax typescript


Box 8
Folder 20

Gentlemen Callers (script).

Typescript with revisions.


Box 8
Folder 21

"Geoffrey and the Eskimo Child" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions.

(see also: Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories )


Box 8
Folder 22-23

Giantess Aeteus (play).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions.


Box 8
Folder 24

"Give Back My Heart" (short story).

Typescript, 10/1958


Box 8
Folder 25-26

Glory (rock opera/musical/verse drama).

Holograph, fax typescript with revisions.


Box 8
Folder 27

Going, Going, Gone (play).

Holograph


Box 8
Folder 28-30

Going Home (play).

Holograph, typescript.


Box 8
Folder 31

Gone With the Wind - A Sequel (novel).

Typescript


Box 8
Folder 32-33

The Good Person of Szechwan, by Bertolt Brecht (screenplay by Weldon).

Holograph, fax holograph, typescript.


Box 8
Folder 34

"The Graduation Speech I'll Never Make" (article?).

Holograph, typescript with revisions. 1/1987


Box 8
Folder 35

"The Great Egg Mystery" (article).

Holograph, fax typescript with revisions


Box 8
Folder 36-37

Great Grandmother (television play).

Typescript, carbon.


Greenfingers (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon, fax typescript.


Box 8
Folder 38

Synopsis.

Box 8
Folder 39-43

Episode 1: The Day it Began.

Box 9
Folder 1-4

Episode 2: It Takes a Worried Man.

Box 9
Folder 5-7

Episode 3: Lord of the Stones.

Box 9
Folder 8-10

Episode 4: Heating Up.

Box 9
Folder 11-13

Episode 5: Prophecy.

Box 9
Folder 14

Miscellaneous pages.

Box 9
Folder 15

Greenfingers (Prologue to novel).

Typescript


Box 9
Folder 16

"Growing rich" (article?).

Fax typescript. 5/7/1987


Box 9
Folder 17-18

"GUP - or Falling in Love in Helsinki" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, proof.


Box 9
Folder 19

Hands (television play).

Holograph and typescript with revisions


Box 9
Folder 20

A Happening in Midwych (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon


Box 9
Folder 21

The Happiness Grub (play).

Holograph, carbon


Box 9
Folder 22

"Happy Birthday, Gresham TV!" (essay).

Holograph, typescript, fax typescript


Box 9
Folder 23-24

Happy Home (television play).

Holograph, typescript


Box 9
Folder 25

The Hard Time (script).

Holograph


Box 9
Folder 26

Headache? A Paul Temple Story (synopsis).

Holograph, typescript


Box 9
Folder 27

"The Heart Never Learns" (short story).

Typescript. 11/1958


Heart of the Country (television play).

Holograph, typescripts, typescripts with revisions, rehearsal scripts.


Box 9
Folder 28-31

Episode 1: Nobody Told Me.

Box 9
Folder 32-34

Episode 2: Offers of Help

Box 10
Folder 1-2

Episode 3: You did it all Wrong

Box 10
Folder 3-4

Episode 4: You've Got to Have Someone

Box 10
Folder 5-17

The Heart of the Country - a Glastonbury Novel (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions.


Box 10
Folder 18-25

The Hearts and Lives of Men (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions.


Box 11
Folder 1-10

The Hearts and Lives of Men (novel),

continued.


Box 11
Folder 11-12

The Hearts and Lives of Men (television serial).

Holograph, typescript with revisions.


Box 11
Folder 13

Help-The-Children Hall, Episode 1: The Stop-Watch Man (television play).

Carbon


Box 11
Folder 14-28

The Hole in the Top of the World (script).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions.


Box 11
Folder 29

The Hole in the Top of the World (novel).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 11
Folder 30-34

"Holy Stones" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon, page proofs, photocopy of printed story.

(see also: Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories )


Box 12
Folder 1-4

Home for the Summer (script).

Holograph, carbon, typescript with revisions.


Box 12
Folder 5

"A Horrible Tale, and not for the squeamish," by one who adapts and is adapted, complete with script editor's notes (essay).

Holograph, typescript with revisions 3/1988


Box 12
Folder 6

Houseboat Number Ten - Act Two only (play).

Typescript


Box 12
Folder 7-8

Housebreaker (radio play).

Holograph, carbon, typescript.


Box 12
Folder 9

"How to Win the Next Election" (essay).

Holograph


Box 12
Folder 10

"How to Write a Radio Play" (essay).

Holograph


Box 12
Folder 11

Husbands and Fathers (novel).

Holograph, typescript


Box 12
Folder 12-16

I Love My Love (television play).

Holograph, typescript, photocopy, rehearsal scripts.


Box 12
Folder 17

I'll Be There (television play).

Holograph


Box 12
Folder 18

In Memoriam (play).

Carbon


Box 12
Folder 19

"In the Great War" (short story).

Holograph (see also: Polaris and Other Stories )


Box 12
Folder 20

"In the Light of Experience" (essay).

Typescript


Box 12
Folder 21-22

"IND AFF - or Out of Love in Sarajevo" (short story).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, fax typescript and holograph.


Box 12
Folder 23

Inter-City: November in the Spring (play).

Photocopy


Box 12
Folder 24-28

Jack and Jackie: Everything but Time (play).

Holograph, typescript, research material.


Box 12
Folder 29-34

Jane Eyre (play).

Holograph, typescripts with revisions, photocopy.


Box 13
Folder 1-4

Jane Eyre (play),

continued.


Box 13
Folder 5

"Johnny" (short story).

Typescript. 11/1958


Box 13
Folder 6

"Joris Ivens: Observer" (essay).

Holograph, fax typescript with revisions


Jubilee (television series)

Box 13
Folder 7-10

The Age of Hypocrisy.

Holograph, carbon, rehearsal script.


Box 13
Folder 11

And Where is My Heart?

Photocopy.


Box 13
Folder 12

Conversation Piece '64.

Typescript, carbon


Box 13
Folder 13-14

Glorious Years, Episode 1: Growing Up.

Photocopies. 7/12/1976.


Box 13
Folder 15-16

The New Elizabethans.

Typescript, photocopy.


Box 13
Folder 17

"The Judge's Tale" (short story).

Holograph


Box 13
Folder 18-28

Kate (television series).

I Belong to Somebody.

Carbon


The Job Offer.

Typescript


A Kind of Beauty (1).

Holograph, photocopy


A Kind of Beauty (2).

Carbon


A Nice Rest (last episode).

Carbon


Pictures from the Past.

Typescript with revisions, carbon


A Sort of Change.

Photocopy. 10/30/1970


Take Over - Round One (Ep. 12).

Photocopy


[Untitled script].

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 13
Folder 29-34

The King of Annaport (television play).

Holograph, typescript, carbon, rehearsal scripts.


Box 13
Folder 35

Kiss and Tell (screen play).

Holograph, carbon.


Box 14
Folder 1-2

Ladies in Charge (television play).

Typescript with revisions, rewrites. 1/1986.


Box 14
Folder 3-8

Lament of an Unmarried Father (television play).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, carbon, rehearsal script.


Box 14
Folder 9

"The Last Man in the World" (essay).

Typescript


Box 14
Folder 10

The Last of the Red Hot Mamas (script).

Holograph


Box 14
Folder 11-14

The Last Word (play).

Holograph, carbon, program.


Box 14
Folder 15-26

Leader of the Band (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescripts with revisions, proof.


Box 15
Folder 1

"The Letters of Lucas" (short story).

Holograph


Box 15
Folder 2-8

Letters to Alice On First Reading Jane Austen (television script).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, rehearsal script, research materials. 2/1985.


Box 15
Folder 9-10

"A Libation of Blood" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, proof.


Box 15
Folder 11-13

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (novel).

Holograph, typescript with revisions.


Box 15
Folder 14-32

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (script).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, photocopy, photocopy with revisions


Episode 1.

(5 folders)


Episode 2.

(6 folders)


Episode 3.

(4 folders)


Episode 4.

(3 folders)


Box 15
Folder 32

Linda Cleans Her Brother's Boots (play).

Holograph, carbon


Box 15
Folder 33-37

Little Bird (television play).

Holograph and typescript with revisions, carbon.

(see also: The Thin Doctor)


Box 15
Folder 38

Little Mrs. Perkins, by Penelope Mortimer (script by Weldon).

Typescript, page proofs


Box 15
Folder 39

Living Death (idea for television drama).

Holograph, typescript


Box 15
Folder 40

"London" (essay).

Typescript with revisions


Box 15
Folder 41

"London Fairy Tale" (short story).

Typescript


Box 15
Folder 42

Looking For Someone (film idea).

Holograph, typescript, fax holograph. 3/1988


Box 15
Folder 43

The Loophole (script).

Holograph, typescript of summary


Box 15
Folder 44

Love and Fear Abounding (film? idea).

Holograph


Box 15
Folder 45-47

Love Story - Episode: What About Me? (television play).

Holograph, rehearsal script, camera script.


Box 16
Folder 1-2

Loving Women (television play).

Holograph.


Box 16
Folder 3

"The Man From Morocco" - Chapter 1 (short story).

Typescript


Box 16
Folder 4

"The Man Who Liked Swimming" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 16
Folder 5

"Man With No Eyes" (short story).

Carbon, photocopy

(see also: Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories )


Box 16
Folder 6-8

Margaret's Island (play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon.


Box 16
Folder 9

Marked Personal (script).

Carbon with revisions


Box 16
Folder 10-12

Married Love (play).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, photocopy.


Box 16
Folder 13

Memoir of Jane Austen, by James Edward Austen-Leigh (introduction by Weldon).

Holograph, typescript


Box 16
Folder 4

Menace (play).

Carbon


Box 16
Folder 15

"Mr. Birmingham Goes" (short story).

Holograph


Box 16
Folder 16-26

Mr. Director (stage play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon, photocopy, program.


Box 16
Folder 27-28

Mr. Fox and Mr. First (radio play).

Carbon and incomplete rehearsal script.

(See also: Words of Advice)


Box 16
Folder 29

Mixed Blessings, Second Chance (script).

Carbon

(same as: Second Chance?)


Box 16
Folder 30

Mollo's Penthouse (script).

Holograph


Box 16
Folder 31

Montdragon (script).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 16
Folder 32-33

Moody and Sankey in England - Mr. Moody and I (play).

Holograph, typescript, photocopy.


Box 16
Folder 34

"Moscow International Forum report" (essay).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 16
Folder 35

Mountain Fever (television screenplay).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 16
Folder 36

"A Move to the Country" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, fax holograph and typescript


Box 16
Folder 37-39

Moving House (stage play).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, carbon, photocopy, cast list, program.


Box 17
Folder 1-2

Moving House (stage play),

continued.


Box 17
Folder 3

The Mugger-Woman's Well (children's play).

Holograph (incomplete)


Box 17
Folder 4-5

"My Week" (essay).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, fax holograph and typescript. 3/1988.


Box 17
Folder 6

"N.W.1" (short story?).

Holograph


Box 17
Folder 7

Nanny (television play).

Holograph


Box 17
Folder 8

"Neighbors" (short story).

Typescript with revisions (incomplete)


Box 17
Folder 9-11

A Nice Dream While it Lasted (television play).

Holograph, photocopy, camera script.


Box 17
Folder 12

Nightingale Ward (stage play).

Typescript


Box 17
Folder 13

A Novel (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions


Box 17
Folder 14

"November" (short story).

Typescript


Box 17
Folder 15-21

Now or Never (screenplay collaboration of Mira Hamermesh and Weldon).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions


Box 17
Folder 22

Obsession (play).

Holograph


Box 17
Folder 23-24

Office Party (play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon.


Box 17
Folder 25

Old Salt New Spice (television play).

Typescript (incomplete)


Box 17
Folder 26

"On Being a Late Mother" (essay).

Holograph, fax typescript with revisions


Box 17
Folder 27

"On Betrayal" (essay).

Fax holograph, typescript. 9/1988


Box 17
Folder 28

"On Form and Content" (speech).

Holograph


Box 17
Folder 29

On Literary Prizes (television play).

Typescript


Box 17
Folder 30-32

On the Road (play).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions. 5/28/1979.


Box 17
Folder 33

"The One Who Got Away" (short story).

Typescript. 10/1958


Box 17
Folder 34

"Open Letter to a Cat Woman" (essay).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon


Box 17
Folder 35

"The Other Side of the Fence" (short story).

Holograph. 9/1983


Box 17
Folder 36

"Out of Obscurity" (essay).

Holograph, typescript, carbon


Box 17
Folder 37

Owen M.D.: An Officially Hot Day (television series).

Carbon


Box 17
Folder 38

"Pains" (short story).

Galley


Box 17
Folder 39-40

Pains (television play).

Typescript, typescript with revisions


Box 17
Folder 41

"Party Puddle" (children's story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, photocopy, galley


Box 17
Folder 42-49

The Passage of Time: A Love Story in Four Parts (play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Part 1: The Pleasure of your Company (or A Terrible Infection)

(2 folders)


Part 2: A Time and a Place

Part 3: Gossip

(3 folders)


Part 4: Home Truths

(2 folders)


Box 17
Folder 50

"Pearly Oats" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 17
Folder 51

Permanence (play).

Holograph


Box 18
Folder 1-3

Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux (script treatment by Weldon).

Holograph, typescript with revisions. 3/1988.


Box 18
Folder 4

"Pity and Compassion" (essay).

Holograph, fax typescript with revisions


Box 18
Folder 5

Pity My Condition (play).

Carbon. 7/3/1966


Box 18
Folder 6-13

Polaris (radio play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, photocopy with revisions, carbon, rehearsal scripts.


Box 18
Folder 14-15

"Polaris" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions

(see also: Polaris and Other Stories)


Box 18
Folder 16

Polaris (television play).

Holograph


Box 18
Folder 17

Polaris and Other Stories.

Draft


Box 18
Folder 18-20

Poor Cherry (stage play/television play).

Holograph, carbon, cast list, extracts from an interview with Weldon by Paul Madden. 9/1967.


Box 18
Folder 21-22

Poor Mother (play).

Holograph, carbon, photocopy.


Box 18
Folder 23-30

Praxis (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with corrections, uncorrected proof, miscellaneous proof pages, dust jacket.


Oversize Praxis (novel).

Galleys


Box 19
Folder 1-7

The President's Child (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, photocopy.


Box 19
Folder 8-9

The President's Child (stage play).

Holograph, typescript.


Box 19
Folder 10-13

The President's Child (screenplay by David Ambrose).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, photocopy.


Box 19
Folder 14-27

Pride and Prejudice (five part television adaptation).

Synopsis, holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon, photocopy, camera script, rewrites, scene breakdowns, miscellaneous pages, Guidelines (teacher's edition).


Box 20
Folder 1-25

Pride and Prejudice,

continued


Box 20
Folder 26-30

The Prince in London (stage play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon.


Box 20
Folder 31

Property No. l & Property No. 2 (film ideas).

Holograph, carbon


Box 20
Folder 32-33

Puffball (novel).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, fax typescript, corrections by Ann England, proof pages, galley, script synopsis.


Box 21
Folder 1-18

Puffball (novel),

continued


Box 21
Folder 19

"Pupsy Kooler" (essay).

Fax typescript


Box 21
Folder 20

"Puzzles" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 21
Folder 21

"The Quarrel" (short story).

Holograph, typescript. 10/1957.


Box 21
Folder 22

Re-Assessment or Adultery (script).

Holograph, carbon


Box 21
Folder 23-28

Remember Me (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, photocopy, corrections, dust jackets, display photo.

(see also: The Doctor's Wife)


Box 22
Folder 1-5

Remember Me (novel),

continued.


Box 22
Folder 6

"Remember Me" (short story).

Printed


Box 22
Folder 7

"Return to the Hotel Atlantic, Aarhus, or The Visiting Writer's Handbook" (short story).

Holograph


Box 22
Folder 8

Rooms: Dorothy and Clive (play).

Carbon


Box 22
Folder 9

"The Roots of Violence" (article).

One holograph page


Box 22
Folder 10-11

Rosie's Romance (film script).

Holograph, typescript with revisions. (Variant of: Venus in Transit?)


Box 22
Folder 12-13

Ruined Houses (novel).

Holograph, typescript, carbon


Box 22
Folder 14-18

Ruined Houses (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon, rehearsal script. (Title also used for: Venus in Transit)


Box 22
Folder 19-24

The Rules of Life (novella).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions.


Box 22
Folder 25-30

Run Cecily! (play).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, carbon, photocopy.


Box 22
Folder 31-32

"Sackcloth and Ashes" (essay).

Holograph, fax holograph and typescript, research materials.


Box 22
Folder 33

"The Sad Life of the Rich" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions

(See also: Polaris and Other Stories)


Box 22
Folder 34

"Saga" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 22
Folder 35

"The Saint of Broom Hill, Sheffield" (essay).

Holograph


Box 22
Folder 36

"Salad Days" (short story).

Typescript


Box 22
Folder 37

"Sara Keyes - or That Woman Again" (essay).

Holograph


Box 22
Folder 38-39

Scaling Down (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions 11/1985.


Box 22
Folder 40-41

"The Search for Mother Christmas" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, fax holograph and typescript. 8/1988.


Box 22
Folder 42

Second Chance (stage play).

Printed program only (same as: Mixed Blessings?)


Box 22
Folder 43

The Second Officer (script).

Holograph


Box 22
Folder 44-46

The Sex Game: Hippy-Hippy-Who-Cares (television play).

Reading copy, rehearsal script, camera script. 1968.


Box 22
Folder 47

"Sharon Loves Darren" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, fax typescript and of published version. 1/1988


Box 22
Folder 48

"She Talked Too Much" (short story).

Typescript


Box 23
Folder 1-11

The Shrapnel Academy (novel).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, ad.


Box 23
Folder 12

The Sins of the Father(television series idea).

Holograph, typescript


Box 23
Folder 13

Sister's Novel.

Typescript


Box 23
Folder 14-18

A Small Green Space (libretto).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, fax typescript. 7/1987.


Box 23
Folder 19-22

Smokescreen (television play).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions.


Box 24
Folder 1-4

Smokescreen (television play),

continued.


Box 24
Folder 5

"Something Missing" (short story).

Holograph, typescript


Box 24
Folder 6

A Song About You (radio play?).

Holograph


Box 24
Folder 7-9

Spider (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, rehearsal script.


Box 24
Folder 10

The Stanley Adams Affair (play).

Holograph. 10/1982


Box 24
Folder 11

"Star Wars" (essay).

Holograph and typescript draft


Box 24
Folder 12

Staying Alive (stage play).

Partial holograph


Box 24
Folder 13

"The Stork or the Gooseberry Bush" (short story).

Typescript


Box 24
Folder 14

"Strike Spirit" (short story).

Typescript


Box 24
Folder 15-17

Suffer Little Children - Sydney (film script).

Holograph, fax typescript with revisions.


Box 24
Folder 18

"A Summons From Afar" (short story).

Holograph


Box 24
Folder 19

Sunset (film).

Holograph, carbon


Box 24
Folder 20-21

Suspicion: Old Man's Hat (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, rehearsal script.


Box 24
Folder 22

"The TSB Peninsula Prize" (speech).

Holograph, press releases, guest list


Box 24
Folder 23-25

The Tale of Timothy Bagshott (play).

Typescript, draft script, rehearsal script.


Box 24
Folder 26

"Ten Favourite Books" (essay).

Holograph, typescript


Box 24
Folder 27-28

These Old Shades, by Georgette Heyer (film synopsis by Weldon).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon.


Box 24
Folder 29-31

The Thin Doctor (play).

Holograph/typescript with revisions, carbon, research notes.

(see also: Little Bird)


Box 24
Folder 32-35

Third Girl Wanted (play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon, typescript.


Box 24
Folder 36-37

Thirteen Thousand and Eighty-Three Pounds (television play).

Carbon, rehearsal script. 11/1968.


Box 24
Folder 38

"This Film Can Do Nothing Right-Nothing" (essay).

Holograph


Box 24
Folder 39

This Man and This Woman (film script).

Holograph


Box 25
Folder 1

Three Girls in a Flat (fragment of play).

Holograph


Box 25
Folder 2-14

Three Wives of Felix Hull (play).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, carbon, treatment, reading copy, camera script.


Box 25
Folder 15-16

"Threnody" (short story).

Holograph, typescript, typescript with revisions, carbon.

(see also: Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories )


Box 25
Folder 17

"The Tide of Affairs" (short story).

Holograph


Box 25
Folder 18

To Them that Hath (television play).

Typescript


Box 25
Folder 19-20

"Towards a Humorous View of the Universe" (essay).

Holograph, typescript, proof.


Box 25
Folder 21-24

Trapped: Good-Night, Mrs. Dill (television series).

Holograph, carbon, rehearsal script.


Box 25
Folder 25

"Travel and Leisure" (essay).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, fax holograph and typescript


Box 25
Folder 26

"La Traviata" (essay).

Fax holograph and typescript with revisions. 10/1988


Box 25
Folder 27-30

Trial - A Load of Guilt (play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, typescript, carbon.


Box 25
Folder 31

"Twenty-five Years of Wrath" (essay).

Holograph, typescript. 12/1986.


Box 25
Folder 32-33

Two More Women (play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, typescript, carbon.


Box 25
Folder 34-35

Under Canvas (stage play).

Holograph, typescript, carbon.


Box 25
Folder 36

"The Unseen Ones" (short story).

Typescript


Box 26
Folder 1-6

Upstairs Downstairs (television play).

Episode 1: On Trial.

Typescript, carbon


Episode 6: The Adventurers.

Rehearsal scripts


Episode 7: Your Obedient Servant.

Rehearsal script


Episode ?: Elizabeth Entertains.

Typescript synopsis only


Box 26
Folder 7-9

Venus Rising (television play).

Holograph, typescript, carbon, rehearsal script, camera script.


Box 26
Folder 10-11

Venus in Transit (novel).

Holograph, typescript


Box 26
Folder 12-18

Victoria (three plays).

Typescript, carbon, photocopy.


Box 26
Folder 19

View From a Flat Land (film idea).

Holograph


Box 26
Folder 20

"Violent Crime booklet" (outline).

Typescript, research materials


Box 26
Folder 21

The War with Heaven (musical play for Rhyl Street School).

Holograph/typescript with revisions


Box 26
Folder 22-23

"Watching Me, Watching You" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon.


Box 26
Folder 24

Watching Me, Watching You (stage play in two acts).

Holograph


Box 26
Folder 25-27

Watching Me, Watching You (television play).

Holograph, photocopy.


Box 26
Folder 28-29

Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories.

Typescript with revisions, page proofs.


Box 26
Folder 30-33

Way Out (screen play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, typescript.


Box 27
Folder 1-3

Way Out (screen play),

continued.


Box 27
Folder 4

"We Could Enjoy Ourselves: Utopia No. 1, All About Joan Littlewood's Palace of Fun" (short story?).

Typescript


Box 27
Folder 5-7

"Weekend" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon, photocopy. (see also: Watching Me, Watching You and Other Stories)


Box 27
Folder 8

Weekend (radio play).

Rehearsal script


Box 27
Folder 9

"West Country Diary" (essay).

Typescript. 12/1984


Box 27
Folder 10-11

The Western Women (play).

Holograph, typescript.


Box 27
Folder 12

"Wham? Zap? Phut?" (essay).

Holograph, typescript with revisions. 4/1986


Box 27
Folder 13

"What It's Like To be a Feminist Writer In Great Britain Today" (essay).

Holograph, fax holograph, typescript with revisions, 2/1988


Box 27
Folder 14

"When the Bad Times Came" (short story).

Typescript with revisions 6/1982


Box 27
Folder 15-16

Which Witch (opera).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, fax holograph and typescript.


Box 27
Folder 17

"Whitbread Prize" (speech).

Holograph, fax holograph and typescript. 10/31/1988


Box 27
Folder 18

"Whither Literature?" (essay).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 27
Folder 19

"Who?" (short story).

Holograph (see also: Polaris and Other Stories )


Box 27
Folder 20-21

"Why Luke Loved Jenny" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon.


Box 27
Folder 22-24

Wife In a Blonde Wig (television play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon with revisions, rehearsal script.


Box 27
Folder 25-26

"The Wife's Revenge" (short story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions.

(see also: Polaris and Other Stories) (title also used for: Ruined Houses)


Box 27
Folder 27-28

The Wife's Revenge (script).

Typescript, photocopy with revisions.


Box 27
Folder 29

"The Wilder Shores of Self" (essay).

Typescript with revisions, fax typescript with revisions.


Box 27
Folder 30

"Win a Holiday for Two" (short story).

Holograph


Box 27
Folder 31

"Wolf, the Mechanical Dog" (children's story).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, fax typescript of flap copy


Box 27
Folder 32-34

The Woman Downstairs (play).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, carbon.


Box 27
Folder 35

The Woman From My Past - Episode 1 (script). Holograph, typescript

Holograph, typescript


Box 27
Folder 36-37

A Woman of Substance, by Barbara Taylor Bradford (television series? by Weldon).

Typescript with revisions of Part 1, typescript synopsis of Parts 1-4.


Box 27
Folder 38

The Wonderful Adventures of Jenny and Mrs. Seacole (script? idea).

Holograph, typescript


Box 27
Folder 39-44

Woodworm (stage play).

Holograph, holograph/typescript with revisions, photocopy, program.


Box 28
Folder 1-8

Words of Advice (novel).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, typescript, carbon, dustjackets, ads.


Box 28
Folder 9-10

Words of Advice (stage play).

Holograph, carbon with revisions

(see also: Mr. Fox and Mr. First)


Box 28
Folder 11-12

Words of Advice [2] (stage play - different from above).

Holograph, typescript with revisions


Box 28
Folder 13

"The World Around Us" (essay).

Holograph


Box 28
Folder 14

"Writers and Freedom" (essay).

Holograph


Box 28
Folder 15

"The Year of the Green Pudding" (short story).

Typescript with revisions. 7/1985


Box 28
Folder 16

"Yeovil Man" (short story?).

Holograph


Box 28
Folder 17-20

"Your Delicious Bed - Letters From the Future to the Young Rebecca West" (fiction essay).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, photocopy.


Box 28
Folder 21-25

Zarya (a screenplay for Conrad Rooks).

Holograph, typescript with revisions, sheet of letterhead "Zarya a film by conrad rooks."


Subseries: Box 29-30 Unidentified Writings

Subseries: Box 30
Folder 6-16

Advertising

Includes writings and materials pertaining to Weldon's work in advertising; editing assignments; book reviews; television previews


Subseries: Writings By Others

Arranged alphabetically by author.


Box 30
Folder 17

Adams, Marie. Poor Cates

Box 30
Folder 18

Atwood, Margaret. Simmering

Box 30
Folder 19-21

Birkinshaw, Franklin.

Various clippings


Box 30
Folder 22

Birkinshaw, Franklin.

Plays


Box 30
Folder 23

Birkinshaw, Franklin. Literary Fringes

Box 30
Folder 24

Birkinshaw, Franklin. "Tomorrow" (articles)

Box 30
Folder 25

Birkinshaw, Franklin.

Misc. writings


Box 30
Folder 26

Boardman, Lisa. Rain for Bidding

Box 30
Folder 27-30

Bull, Donald. The Doctors

Includes: series format and Episodes 1, 2 and 9.


Box 30
Folder 31

Chalkpoint Productions. Fateful Destinies

Box 30
Folder 32

Cherrington, Clare. It Should Be So Easy

Box 30
Folder 33

Christensen, Karen Zina and Marianne Tottrup.

Dissertation? about Weldon


Box 30
Folder 34

Coopman, Myra. Rodin's Thinker

Box 30
Folder 35-36

Croft, Evelyn. Blonde Bombshells (Ginny Hart series)

Box 30
Folder 37

Croft, Evelyn (?). Good As Gold (Ginny Hart series)

Box 30
Folder 38

Croft, Evelyn (?). The Land Where the Bong Tree Grows (Ginny Hart series)

Box 30
Folder 39

Croft, Evelyn (?). Pink Palace (Ginny Hart series)

Box 31
Folder 1

Davies, Colyn. Sestina - for Abigail

Box 31
Folder 2

Ellmann, Lucy. Sweet Desserts

Box 31
Folder 3

Falconer, Alun. Kate: From A Stranger

Box 31
Folder 4

Falconer, Alun. Kate: Take Over - The Verdict

Box 31
Folder 5

Garland, Francis Furber.

Poems


Box 31
Folder 6

Geoff Reeve Enterprises Ltd. Half Moon Street

Box 31
Folder 7

Gerrard, Pat.

Video for drama series


Box 31
Folder 8

Gibson, Douglas. Secret

Greatorex, Wilfred. Airline

Box 31
Folder 9

plots for 8 episodes

Box 31
Folder 10

Episode 1. Brave New World

Box 31
Folder 11

Episode 3. Overload

Box 31
Folder 12

Episode 4. Conscience

Box 31
Folder 13

Episode 6. All or nothing, by Gidley Wheeler

Box 31
Folder 14

Episode 7. Keep off our sky, by Gidley Wheeler

Box 31
Folder 15

Episode ? One in a million (synopsis by Gidley Wheeler)

Box 31
Folder 16

Gudmundsson, Einar Mar. The Knights of the Spiral Stairs

Box 31
Folder 17

Halperin, John. The Life of Jane Austen

Box 31
Folder 18

Haltrecht, Montague.

Three short stories


Box 31
Folder 19

Heath, Roy A.K. One Generation

Box 31
Folder 20

Heaton, Josephine. The Painting On The Wall

Box 31
Folder 21

Heaton, Josephine.

Two scripts--see letter to F.W. n.d.


Box 31
Folder 22

Hough, Charlotte. The Bassington Murder

Box 31
Folder 23

Jepson, Jane. Ten Battersea Bridge

Box 31
Folder 24

Jepson, Jane.

Miscellaneous writings


Box 31
Folder 25

Lear, Norman. MacTaggart Lecture

Box 31
Folder 26

Lessing, Doris. Woman Alone

Box 31
Folder 27

Levene, Philip. Sanctuary

Box 31
Folder 28

Lewis, James. The Big Mobster

Box 31
Folder 29

Lewis, James. The Big Spender

Box 31
Folder 30

Lewis, James. The Big Worker

Box 31
Folder 31

Lewis, James. A Little Bit of Villainy

Box 31
Folder 32

Lewis, James. Look Out - Playwrights

Box 31
Folder 33

Lewis, James.

untitled


Box 32
Folder 1

MacTaggart, James. Through the Looking Glass (script)

Box 32
Folder 2

Mansfield, Barry. Literary Fringes

Box 32
Folder 3

Miles, Margaret. The Weekenders (synopsis of series of plays)

Box 32
Folder 4

Morris, Benjamin. Five Finger Exercise

Box 32
Folder 5

Morris, Jane. Madam

Box 32
Folder 6

Morris, Jane. The Singing Master

Box 32
Folder 7

Paul, Jeremy. Praxis (dramatisation, Ep. 2)

Box 32
Folder 8

Seroxton, Judith. New Blood

Box 32
Folder 9

Sorrell, Elizabeth. Sprite Row

Box 32
Folder 10

Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead

Box 32
Folder 11

University of Lancaster. Workshop by FW, June 26, 1984,  various writers

Box 32
Folder 12

Vandenburgh, Jane. Failure to Zigzag

Box 32
Folder 13

Williamson, Malcolm.

Music


Box 32
Folder 14

Wroe, Malcolm & Julian Evans. Daniel: A Musical

Box 32
Folder 15

Wroe, Malcolm. Justice to Guy Fawkes

Box 32
Folder 16

unidentified writer. The Enchanted April (script)

Box 32
Folder 17

unidentified writer. La Rochefoucauld

Box 32
Folder 18-21

unidentified writers

Box 32
Folder 22

Reviews of F.W.'s work

Box 32
Folder 23

About Weldon

Box 32
Folder 24

La Zona! Caramba!

Box 32
Folder 25

Miscellaneous

Series: Photographs

Box 32
Folder 26-34

Portraits and snapshots of FW, family and friends

Oversize Three portraits of FW and one of FW and son, Samuel

Series: Miscellaneous

Box 33 Includes biographical and financial material, contracts, college notebooks, juvenilia, items related to son Nicholas Bateman

Box 34 Includes family-related materials and children's drawings

Oversize Giles Cooper Award (BBC) for Polaris

Series: Printed

Box 34
Folder 18-21

Published articles and stories, articles about FW, book promotions, book reviews

Series: Clippings

Box 34 Reviews of novels (A - O)

Box 35 Reviews of novels (P - Z), plays, short stories, and television. Articles about FW and miscellaneous clippings

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