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Bradbury, M. mss. II, 1949-1993

Summary Information

Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
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Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
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Creator
Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000

Title
Bradbury, M. mss. II, 1949-1993

Collection No.
LMC 1138

Extent
ca. 10,000 items

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
The Bradbury, M. mss. II, 1949-1993, consists of the papers of British author, professor, and literary critic Malcolm Bradbury, 1932-2000.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

After teaching fellowships in America at Indiana University and Yale, Malcolm Bradbury began his career as a professor the same week his first novel Eating People Is Wrong was published in 1959. Much of his creative writing concerns academic subjects, and his critical works reflect his interests in American Studies, Modernism, and Postmodernism. In 1965 Bradbury became a lecturer at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and helped create its American Studies department, where he was named a professor in 1970. In 1975 The Royal Society of Literature awarded his novel, The History Man , the Heinemann Prize, and his next novel, Rates of Exchange, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1983. In addition to novels and critical work, Bradbury has adapted several novels into scripts for the BBC, as well as creating and writing original programs.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings; III. Miscellaneous.

Scope and Content Note

The Bradbury, M. mss. II, 1949-1993, consists of the papers of British author, professor, and literary critic Malcolm Bradbury, 1932-2000. The papers contain correspondence with many of Bradbury's contemporaries in British fiction and academics, as well as his agents, publishers, and family. The writings contain many drafts of his novels and critical works, along with research notes and some background material. There are also drafts of books edited by Bradbury. Miscellaneous materials include items related to his teaching, lecturing, and activities with various organizations and committees, as well as financial papers, including royalty statements.

  • 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
    • Bradbury, Malcolm, 1932-2000 --Correspondence.
    • Topics
    • Authors, English --Correspondence.

Related Material

Bradbury, M. mss.; also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Purchase. 1996.
Usage Restrictions
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Bradbury M. mss. II, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Series: Correspondence

The correspondence consists of a chronological file from 1949-1993, plus an alphabetical file of correspondents selected by Bradbury. Among the correspondents in the chronological file are Bradbury's family, literary agents, publishers, academic colleagues, magazine editors, and students. The correspondents in this file have not been listed or indexed. The alphabetical file is mostly Bradbury's friends and fellow writers. A list of these correspondents is available.


Box 1 1949 - 1963, Aug. 

Box 2 1963, Sept. - 1967 

Box 3 1968 - 1977 

Box 4 1978 - 1986, May 

Box 5 1986, June - 1988 

Box 6 1989 - 1991, July 

Box 7 1991, Aug. - 1993 

A - Z
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  • Abish, Walter
  • Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973
  • Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925-
  • Allen, Walter Ernest, 1911-
  • Amis, Kingsley, 1922-
  • Amis, Martin
  • Auster, Paul, 1947-
  • Bailyn, Bernard
  • Bainbridge, Beryl, 1933-
  • Barth, John, 1930-
  • Bateson, Frederick Wilse, 1901-
  • Bayley, John, 1925-
  • Bellow, Saul, 1915-
  • Bittner, William, 1921-
  • Blacker, Terence
  • Blackmur, R.P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965
  • Bly, Carol
  • Blythe, Ronald, 1922-
  • Boorman, John, 1933-
  • Booth, Wayne C.
  • Bow, Jean
  • Bowen, John Charles Edward, 1909-
  • Boxer, Mark, 1931-1988
  • Boyars, Marion (Lobbenberg), 1929-
  • Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-
  • Braine, John, 1922-1986
  • Braybrooke, Neville, 1925-
  • Brooks, Cleanth,1906-1994
  • Brownjohn, Alan, 1931-
  • Buford, Bill
  • Bullock, Alan, 1938-
  • Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993
  • Burns, Alan, 1929-
  • Byatt, A.S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-
  • Carter, Angela, 1940-1992
  • Catling, Patrick Skene
  • Caute, David
  • Cleese, John(sec'y signed)
  • Coates, Robert M. (Robert Myron), 1897-1973
  • Connolly, Thomas Edmund, 1918-
  • Coover, Robert, 1932-
  • Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989
  • Cummings, Edward Estlin, 1894-1962
  • Cunliffe, Marcus

    (separate folder)

  • Davie, Donald Alfred, 1922-
  • Davis, Robert Gorham, 1908-
  • Delaney, Frank, 1942-
  • Dennis, Nigel Forbes, 1912-
  • Donoghue, Denis
  • Doughty, Louise
  • Drabble, Margaret, 1939-
  • Dunn, Suzannah
  • Eliot, Esmé Valerie (Fletcher), 1927-
  • Ellmann, Richard David, 1918-1987
  • Emery, Jane, 1917-

    (separate folder)

  • Enright, Dennis Joseph, 1920-
  • Fagin, Fadia
  • Fanger, Donald
  • Farrer, Dabo?
  • Faulks, Sebastian
  • Fiedler, Leslie Aaron, 1917-
  • Fielding, Emma
  • Fitzgerald, Ross, 1944-
  • Fowles, Elizabeth (Whitton)
  • Fowles, John, 1926-
  • Friedman, Melvin J.
  • Fry, Stephen
  • Fuller, Roy Broadbent, 1912-
  • Fyvel, T.R. (Tosco R.), 1907-
  • Gardner, Helen Louise, Dame
  • Gee, Maggie
  • Ghose, Zulfikar, 1935-
  • Godwin, Fay
  • Golding, Ann (Brookfield), Lady
  • Golding, William Gerald, 1911-1993
  • Green, Martin Burgess, 1927-
  • Green, Peter, 1924-
  • Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-1985
  • Hall, Stuart
  • Hamilton, Ian
  • Hampton, Christopher Martin, 1929-
  • Harper, Graeme
  • Harris, Wilson
  • Hawkes, Jacquetta Hopkins, 1910-
  • Hern, Nicholas
  • Hetherington, Alastair
  • Higgins, George V., 1939-
  • Hill, Susan, 1942-
  • Hinde, Thomas, 1926-
  • Hoff, Harry Summerfield, 1910-

    (separate folder)

  • Hoggart, Richard, 1918-
  • Hoggart, Simon, 1946-
  • Holbrook, David Kenneth, 1923-
  • Holland, Laurence Bedwell
  • Holland, Norman Norwood, 1927-
  • Homberger, Eric
  • Hough, Graham Goulden, 1908-
  • Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 1923-
  • Humphries, Barry
  • Illis, Mark
  • Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-
  • Jacobson, Dan, 1929-
  • James, P.D.
  • Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-
  • Johnson, B.S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973
  • Jones, Mervyn
  • Jones, Russell Celyn
  • Judd, Alan
  • Keane, Molly, 1904-
  • Kennedy, X. J., 1929-
  • Kermode, Frank, 1919-
  • Kinross, John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd baron, 1904-1976
  • Knopf, Blanche (Wolf), 1894-1966, and Company

    (separate folder)

  • Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966
  • Larkin, Philip Arthur, 1922-1985
  • Lasky, Melvin Jonah, 1920-
  • Lehmann, John Frederick, 1907-1987
  • Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
  • Lodge, David, 1935-

    (two separate folders)

  • Lodge, Mary Frances
  • Loeb, Harold Albert, 1891-1974
  • Lowenthal, Leo
  • Lurie, Alison
  • Macauley, Robie Mayhew, 1919-
  • MacBeth, George Mann, 1932-
  • McEwan, Ian
  • Mack, Maynard, 1909-
  • McMahon, Kit, Sir
  • Madden, Deirdre
  • Millgate, Michael
  • Miner, Earl Roy, 1927-
  • Mitchell, Julian, 1935-
  • Morgan, Frederick, 1922-
  • Morison, Elting Elmore, 1909-1995
  • Morrison, Blake
  • Motion, Andrew, 1952-
  • Munson, Gorham Bert, 1896-1969
  • Murdoch, Iris, 1919-
  • Murray, Sir John, 1884-1967
  • Murphy, Richard, 1927-
  • Newby, Percy Howard, 1918-
  • Oakeshott, Walter Fraser, 1903-
  • O'Connor, William Van, 1915-1966
  • Orsler, Michael, 1931-

    (4 separate folders)

  • Orwell, Sonia (Brownell), 1919-1980
  • Osborne, Charles, 1927-
  • Parks, Tim
  • Patterson, Glenn, 1961-
  • Peak, David
  • Phelps, Gilbert Henry, 1915-
  • Poirer, Richard, 1925-
  • Prince, F.T. (Frank Templeton), 1912-
  • Quirk, Randolph
  • Raban, Jonathan
  • Raine, Craig
  • Redhead, Brian
  • Rendell, Ruth, 1930-
  • Richardson, Ian, 1934-
  • Ricks, Christopher B.
  • Ross, Alan, 1922-
  • Roth, Philip, 1933-
  • Rowse, Alfred Leslie, 1903-
  • Rushdie, Salman
  • Sandford, Jeremy
  • Schlatter, Richard Bulger, 1912-1987
  • Scott, Mary
  • Scott-Kilvert, Ian
  • Scouffas, George, 1915-
  • Sharpe, Tom
  • Sharrock, Roger
  • Shaw, Michael
  • Sher, Antony
  • Sherrin, Ned
  • Showalter, Elaine
  • Sigal, Clancy
  • Sillitoe, Alan, 1928-
  • Sinclair, Andrew
  • Snow, Charles Percy Snow, baron, 1905-1980
  • Sorel-Cameron, James
  • Spacks, Barry, 1931-

    (separate folder)

  • Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer

    (separate folder)

  • Spark, Muriel
  • Sparrow, John Hanbury Angus, 1906-
  • Spender, Stephen, 1909-
  • Steiner, George, 1929-
  • Tanner, Tony, 1935-
  • Taylor, D.J. (David John), 1960-
  • Taylor, Laurie, 1935-
  • Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
  • Thwaite, Ann, 1932-

    (separate folder)

  • Thwaite, Anthony

    (separate folder)

  • Tomalin, Claire
  • Trachtenberg, Alan
  • Tremain, Rose
  • Updike, John Hoyer, 1932-
  • Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
  • Wain, John Barrington, 1925-1994
  • Wall, Patrick, 1916-
  • Wandor, Michelene
  • Waugh, Auberon
  • Weber, Brom, 1917-

    (separate folder)

  • Weldon, Fay, 1933-
  • Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987
  • White, Edmund, 1940-
  • Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897-1975
  • Williams, Heathcote
  • Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
  • Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone, 1913-1991
  • Wilson, Snoo, 1948-
  • Winks, Robin William Evert, 1930-
  • Wyndham, Francis, 1924-
  • Ziff, Larzer, 1927-
  • Zsuffa, Joseph

Series: Writings

The writings consist of typescripts, carbons, proofs, and handwritten notes, with annotations by Bradbury, his wife, and his editors. They are arranged in the following series: I. Fiction, humor and critical works, including early writings, novels, short stories, humor, parodies, and critical works; II. Works edited by Bradbury; including volumes of short stories and critical essays; III. Drama, including scripts for revues, radio, television and film; IV. Book reviews, by Bradbury; V. A travel diary; VI. Printed items, including clippings, tearsheets and offprints; VII. Writings by others.


Subseries: Fiction, Humor, and Critical Works

After Early Writings, works are arranged by publication date.


Early Writings

Box 8 folders 1-2: Early attempts at writing, 1949-1950,  stories and newspaper articles; drafts of early articles, 1950s. 

folder 3: Early humorous articles for Punch, 1950s. 

folder 4: Humor for American magazines, mid 1950s. 

folder 5: Articles for American magazines, mid 1950s. 

folders 6-7: Collaborations with Barry Spacks - stories written under various pseudonyms for American and British magazines, mid 1950s, as described in Unsent Letters.

Eating People Is Wrong [novel] 1959 

folders 8-9: Early material: notes, fragments of drafts

folders 10-17: Early versions

folders 18-19: Cut sections

folder 20: Cut section, later rewritten as a short story, "The Adult Education Class."

folder 21: Reviews - 1959,  1960 

folder 22: Play version

folder 23: Proof material for 1976 reprint

Phogey: Or How To Have Class In A Classless Society [collection of humorous writings] 1960 

folder 24: Background material

folder 25: Background material and correspondence with Michael Orsler, co-writer

folder 26: Michael Orsler's material - illustrations, cartoons, letters, drafts of sections

folders 27-29: Original drafts

folder 30: Material for Punch - several sections run as a serial

folders 31-32: Draft of text

folder 33: Draft of text and partial proof

All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go [collection of humorous writings] 1962,  1982 (reprint includes: Phogey: Or How To Have Class In A Classless Society)

folder 34-35: Original drafts and material for reprint

Evelyn Waugh [criticism]. 1962 

folder 36: Jacket blurb, acknowledgments, notes

Box 9 Stepping Westward [novel] 1965 

folders 1-5: Writing notes, background, early drafts

folders 6-17: Early drafts, variants of early chapters

folders 18-22: Drafts of text, variants

folders 23-25: Original typescript

Box 10 folder 1: Changes made at David Farrar's suggestion - editor's comments.

folders 2-4: Drafts of text

folders 5-6: Final typescript

folders 7-8: Printer's copy

folders 9-12: Author's proofs - US edition

folder 13: Reviews and promotional materials

folders 14-16: Radio adaptation by Elizabeth Bradbury

Social Context Of Modern English Literature [criticism] 1971 

Box 11 folders 1-4: Writing notes, source material, drafts of bibliography and index

folders 5-15: Various drafts, revisions; draft of preface; background material, copies

folder 16: Master copy

folders 17-18: Galley proofs

folder 19: Reviews

Possibilities: Essays On The State Of The Novel [criticism] 1973 

folders 20-21: Versions of essays, notes, outlines

Box 12 folders 1-2: Setting copy

folder 3: Reviews

The History Man [novel] 1975 

(see also: Bradbury, M. mss.)


folders 4-5: Background material

folder 6: Writing notes

folders 7-13: Drafts of text

folders 14-15: Setting copy

folder 16: Sample draft sections - selected by Bradbury to demonstrate his revisions

folder 17: Reviews and promotional materials

folder 18: Edit notes for television adaptation

Who Do You Think You Are? [short stories] 1976.  Drafts and background materials.

folder 19: A Very Hospitable Person

folder 20: Who Do You Think You Are?

folder 21: A Goodbye for Evadne Winterbottom

folder 22: Composition

folder 23: The Adult Education Class

folder 24: Nobody Here in England

folder 25: A Breakdown

folder 26: Material for parodies

Saul Bellow [criticism] 1982 

Box 13 folders 1-5: Notes, background material, drafts

folder 6: Copy of text

folder 7: Setting copy

Rates Of Exchange [novel] 1983. Shortlisted for Booker Prize

folders 8-12: "American" version - written at Yaddo

folders 13-28: Drafts of early versions, variants and altered pages

Box 14 folders 1-13: Drafts of early versions, variants and altered pages (cont.)

folders 14-17: Printer's copy

The Modern American Novel [criticism] 1984 

Box 15 folder 1: Correspondence

folders 2-7: Various drafts

folders 8-9: Edited photocopy

folder 10: Reviews, promotional materials

Why Come To Slaka? [humorous writing] 1986 

folders 11-13: Notes, drafts, variants

folder 14: Copy of original text

folder 15: Printer's copy

folder 16: Proofs

Cuts: A Very Short Novel [novella] 1987 

folder 17: Typescript

My Strange Quest for Mensonge [humorous writing] 1987 

folder 18: Early versions - BBC April Fool's version, 1972 

folder 19: Who Do You Think You Are? version

folder 20: Observer version

folder 21: ICA Conference version

folders 22-23: Background material, notes

folders 24-26: Various drafts, including David Lodge's forward

Box 16 folders 1-4: Various drafts, cont.

folder 5: Proofs

No, Not Bloomsbury [criticism] 1987. Drafts of essays.

folder 6: Writer and Critic

folder 7: "A Dog Engulfed in Sand" : Character and Abstraction in Contemporary Writing and Painting

folder 8: "Closing Time In The Gardens" : Or, What Happened to Writing in the 1940s

folder 9: The Novel No Longer Novel: Writing Fiction After World War Two

folder 10: Unhappy Families Are All Alike: Ivy Compton-Burnett and the Modern Novel

fodler 11: New Men: Snow, Cooper and the Novel of the Fifties

folder 12: "No, Not Bloomsbury" : The Comic Fiction of Kingsley Amis

folder 13: The Novel As Pastiche: Angus Wilson and Modern Fiction

folder 14: "A House Fit For Free Characters" : The Novels of Iris Murdoch

folder 15: [Trilling and Leavis]

folder 16: Drafts of essays

folder 17: Proofs

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers [criticism] 1988 

folder 18-21: Various drafts of essays

folder 22: Setting copy

folder 23: Book jackets; promotional materials and contest results for television series

Unsent Letters [humorous essays] 1988 

Box 17 folders 1-7: Various drafts, final text

From Puritanism To Postmodernism: A History Of American Literature [criticism] co-written with Richard Ruland, 1991 

folder 8-21: Notes, proposals, drafts, Bradbury's text, Ruland's text, re-writes

Box 18 folders 1-5

folder 6: New text

folder 7: New revisions, 1990 

folders 8-10: New final text

folders 11-12: Galley proofs - UK edition

folder 13: Galley proofs - US edition

Doctor Criminale [novel] 1992 

folders 14-15: Writing notes

folders 16-17: Drafts of text

Box 19 folders 1-5: Drafts of text

folders 6-8: Key work text

folders 9-11: Agreed final version

folder 12: Printed extracts

The Modern British Novel [criticism] 1993 

folders 13-14: Typescript

Subseries: Works Edited by Bradbury

Arranged chronologically by publication date.


E.M. Forster: A Collection Of Critical Essays 1966 

Box 19 folder 15: Contract

folders 16-18: Source materials

folder 19: Permissions

folder 20: Version of text

folder 21: Reviews

A Passage To India: A Casebook 1970 

folders 22-23: Notes, drafts, proofs of essays

Box 20 folder 1: Printer's copy

folder 2: Proofs

The Penguin Companion To Literature, Vol. 3: American, edited with Eric Mottram, 1972 

folders 3-4: Correspondence with contributors, editors, and publishers

folders 5-8: Research materials

folders 9-13: Drafts of text

The Penguin Guide To European Literature: Modernism, 1890-1930, edited with James McFarlane, 1976 

folders 14-15: Correspondence with contributors, editors, and publishers

folder 16: General information, outlines

folders 17-19: Drafts of essays

Box 21 folders 1-5: Drafts of essays

folders 6-8: Draft of text

folder 9: Proofs

folder 10: Reviews

An Introduction To American Studies, edited with Howard Temperley, 1981 

folder 11: Correspondence - with contributors, editors, and publishers

folder 12: Notes, outlines, proposals

folders 13-18: Drafts of essays

The Penguin Book Of Modern British Short Stories 1987 

folder 19: Proofs

New Writing, edited with Judy Cooke, 1992 

folders 20-21: Drafts

Box 22 folders 1-2: Drafts

folder 3: Reviews

Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies, [critical series], edited with David Palmer, 1970-1981 

folders 4-5: Correspondence with contributors, editors, and publishers

folder 5: Contract

folders 7-8: General information for contributors, notes

folder 9: Decadence and the 1890s

folder 10: Shakespearean Tragedy

folders 11-12: Contemporary American Fiction

folder 13: Contemporary English Drama

folder 14: Medieval Drama

folder 15: Victorian Poetry

folders 16-18: Metaphysical Poetry

folders 19-25: Contemporary Criticism - correspondence, notes, drafts, setting copy

Box 23 folders 1-2: Contemporary Criticism - proofs, reprint of introduction

folders 3-9: The American Novel and the 1920s - correspondence, draft, proofs, reviews, promotional materials, reprint of introduction

folders 10-15: Contemporary English Novel - correspondence, drafts, proofs, reviews

Contemporary Writers [critical series], edited with Chris Bigsby

folders 16-18: Correspondence with contributors, editors, and publisher

folders 19-20: Proposals, editorial material, draft fragments

folder 21: Peter Handke: revised typescript

folder 22: Iris Murdoch: various typescript drafts

folder 23: Methuen materials, promotional materials

Box 24 folder 1: Reviews

Proposal for a series on American Studies

folder 2: Typescript

Subseries: Drama

Arranged chronologically by date written or performed.


Comedy sketches written for radio, ca. 1949-1953 

Box 24 folder 3: Revues, 1950s - 1960s, various scripts

folder 4: Grasshoppers Singing, 1956-1958.  "...written for John Hanson at the Nottingham Playhouse,..."

folders 5-6: Crack Your Cheeks [musical revue] "Joke musical written at Yale (1959) with Harvey Birenbaum...and used later in odd revues, in different form," 1959 

folder 7: What's On In England? [stage revue], 1950s - 1960s, written with David Lodge and Jim Duckett.

folder 8: Early untitled playscript, late 1950s 

folder 9: Paris, France [radio feature] 1960. BBC radio feature broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 19 February 1960. Begun in USA in 1959 when MB was at Yale, with recordings at BBC New York with Allen Tate, Harold Loeb, Glenway Wescott, Malcolm Cowley, R.P. Blackmur, etc.

folders 10-12: Draft material, Radio Times listing

Between These Four Walls [stage revue], written with David Lodge and Jim Duckett. First produced in Birmingham, England, 1963 

folders 13-16

Grass and Hay [stage revue], written with Jim Duckett, et al. 1963 

folder 17: Typescript and programs

Swizzlewick [television series] 1964. Satirical soap for ATV, Birmingham, 1964, written with David Turner, Jim Hill, et al.

folders 18-33: Drafts, rehearsal and camera scripts for Episodes 1, 2, 4, 6, 11-23

Box 25 folder 1: Camera script for Episode 27

Slap In The Middle [stage revue], written with David Lodge, Jim Duckett, and David Turner. First produced in Birmingham, England, 1965 

folder 2: Script and box office receipts

Ludlow Program [television feature] 1966 

folder 3: Research materials, drafts

That Was The Week That Was [BBC TV Show]. Early 1960s 

folder 4: Various scripts.

Uncle Harvey's English Primer [radio script], written with Jim Duckett. "Satirical half-hour radio show, never aired, but pilot made by BBC Brimingham." Early 1960s 

folders 5-7: Drafts and final scripts

A Very Hospitable Person [radio script]. Transmitted July 23, 1971 

folder 8: Final script

The After Dinner Game [original television play], written with Chris Bigsby, 1975 

folders 9-16: Drafts, outlines, variants

See A Friend This Weekend [television script]. 1970s? 

folder 17: Rehearsal script

Congress [radio script] For Thirty Minute Theatre. Transmitted Oct. 31, 1981 

folder 18: Final script

Rates Of Exchange [television adaptation] 1984 

folder 19: Drafts

Blott On The Landscape [television adaptation] 1985 

folder 20-26: Drafts, rewrites of episodes 1-6

folders 27-28: Rehearsal scripts of episodes 1-2

Box 26 folders 1-4: Rehearsal scripts of episodes 3-6

Patterson Comedy Series [radio series] written with Chris Bigsby, 1985 

folders 5-9: Drafts, final versions of episodes 1-8

Porterhouse Blue [television adaptation] 1987 

folder 10: Synopsis

folders 11-21: Drafts for episodes 1-3

Box 27 folders 1-3: Drafts of episodes 4-5

folders 4-7: Various rewrites, revisions, deleted scenes

folders 8-11: Rehearsal scripts for episodes 1-4

Imaginary Friends [television adaptation] 1987 

folder 12: Story treatment

folders 13-18: Drafts, revisions for episodes 1-4

folder 19: Three episode version, October 1986 

folder 20: Rehearsal script for episodes 1

Box 28 folders 1-2: Rehearsal scripts for episodes 2-3

Scenes From Provincial Life. 1988 

folder 3: Radio adaptation, by Malcolm and Elizabeth Bradbury

folder 4: Stage adaptation, by Malcolm and Elizabeth Bradbury

folders 5-14: Television adaptation in six parts, by Malcolm Bradbury. Drafts and revisions

Anything More Would Be Greedy [original television serial] 1989 

folders 15-21: Research materials

folder 22: Story treatment

folder 23: Draft and research materials for episode 1

Box 29 folders 1-9: Research materials, outlines, drafts and datelines

folders 10-21: Rehearsal scripts, episodes 1-6

folder 22: Shooting schedule

folder 23: Cast party invitation and notes

The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis [television adaptation]. 1990 

Box 30 folders 1-6: Drafts, revisions

The Gravy Train [original television serial] 1990 

folder 7: Synopsis and story treatment

folders 8-19: Drafts and rewrites for episodes 1-4

The Gravy Train Goes East [original television serial] 1991 

folder 20: Outlines and developmental notes for serial

folders 21-28: Drafts for episodes 1-3

Box 31 folders 1-2: Drafts for episode 4

folder 3: Script fragments

Miscellaneous

folder 4: Script fragments

Subseries: Book Reviews by Bradbury

Box 31 folders 5-9: Typescripts, some with corrections and several galleys for book reviews published in The Guardian, The Listener, London Magazine, New Society, and Punch

(see also: Printed subseries)


Subseries: Travel Diary

Box 31 folder 10: Holograph personal diary, ca. 1956-1959 

Subseries: Printed

Box 31 folders 11-12: Book Reviews, by Bradbury for The Guardian and The Modern Language Review

folder 13: Folio, Vol. 21, No. 2: Associate editor and contains article by him: Some contemporary English Poets: An Anthology; Vol. 21, No. 3: Associate editor only.

folder 14-15: Offprints.

Arranged alphabetically by title of article


"The Adaptation of Novels"

(2 copies)


"American Realism and the Romance of Europe: Fuller, Frederic, Harland" (2)

"Amerikastudien American Studies (Amst)"

"Art and Reality in Stephen Crane"

(4 copies)


"A Changing Language"

(2 copies)


"The Cities of Modernism"

"Coming Out of the Fifties"

"E.M. Forster's Howards End"

"Fanny Hill and the Comic Novel"

"Forster"

"How I Invented America"

Iris Murdoch's "Under The Net"

"Jane Austen's Emma"

"Literature and Sociology"

(2 copies)


"The Man and the Mask: A Discussion of Role-Theory"

(2 copies)


"Mark Twain in the Gilded Age"

"Modernisms/Postmodernisms"

(2 copies)


"Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honor of Irène Simon"

(2 copies)


"Muriel Spark's Fingernails"

"Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction"

(3 copies)


"Neorealist Fiction"

"The Nonhomemade World: European and American Modernism"

"The Outland Dart: American Writers and European Modernism"

"Persuasion Again"

"The Politics of the Liberal Imagination: Writers and Society in the American 1950s"

"Saul Bellow and his Work"

"Saul Bellow and the Nobel Prize"

"Saul Bellow at Seventy-five"

Saul Bellow's "Herzog"

"Second Countries: The Expatriate Tradition in American Writing"

(2 copies)


"A Short Guide to Forster Studies"

"The Short Stories of Angus Wilson"

"Sociology and Literary Studies"

"A Song of Toads and Gardens"

folders 16-17: Short stories for The Nottingham Guardian ("articles from America"), 1950s 

folder 18: Tearsheets and proofs of various articles and poetry, 1960s 

Subseries: Writings by Others

Box 31 folders 19-23: Writings by Elizabeth Bradbury, David Metcalf, Snoo Wilson, miscellaneous BBC Radio scripts, various articles and poetry, some unidentified

Series: Miscellaneous

Subseries: Biographical

Box 31 folder 24: Short bios, bibliographies, driver's license, etc.

Subseries: Education

Box 31 folder 25: University of Leicester, 1950-1953 

folder 26: University of London, Queen Mary College, 1954-1955 

folder 27: University of Manchester, 1956-1958 

Box 32 folder 1: University applications to teach or study and job applications, 1955-1960 

Subseries: Academic Appointments

Box 32 folder 2: University of Hull, 1959-1961 

folder 3: University of Birmingham, 1961-1965 

folder 4-16: University of East Anglia, 1965-,  including: class related materials, faculty exchanges (Herbert Foltinek, Melvin J. Friedman, Roger Asselineau, John Stedmond, et al.), Fulbright, Henfield Writing Fellowship, Angel Literary Award, visiting American scholars, requests for recommendations, general information for faculty, miscellaneous items.

Visiting Appointments

folder 17-19: Indiana University, 1955-1956. Includes: class papers

folder 20: Other universities, 1957-1959 

Fellowships

folder 21: American Council of Learned Societies, 1965-1966 

Subseries: Organizations/Conferences/Committees

Box 32 folder 22: Book Trust, 1987-1989 

folder 23-24: Booker Prize, 1981 - chairman, 1988-1991 - management committee

folder 25: British Association for American Studies, 1955-1991  - conferences and Journal of...

folder 26: British Comparative Literature Association, 1985-1991;  includes: International Comparative Literature Association information

folder 27-28: The British Council, 1976-1993 

Box 33 folder 1-2: The British Council,... (cont'd)

folder 3-4: Conference on World Affairs, Boulder Colorado, 1984,  1987,  1988 

folder 5: Critical Quarterly Society, 1962/1984 

folder 6: East Anglian Writers

folder 7: Eastern Arts Association

folder 8: European Association for American Studies

folder 9: Independent Broadcasting Authority, 1988 

(see also: Radio Broadlands)


folder 10: Institute of Contemporary Arts

folder 11: International Association of University Professors of English, 1977-1989 

folder 12: International P.E.N., 1956-1991 

folder 13: National Conference of University Professors, 1990-1991 

folder 14: Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, 1985-1991 

folder 15-23: Radio Broadlands, 1983-1987 

folder 24: Royal Society of Literature, 1977-1991 

folder 25: Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, 1960-1961,  1969,  1970,  1976,  1990 

folder 26: Social Democratic Party (SDP) Arts Policy Group, 1985-1987 

folder 27: Society of Authors, 1977-1986 

folder 28: Whitbread Literary Award, judge - 1990 

folder 29: Yorkshire Arts Association

folder 30-32: Travel papers relating to conferences and lectures, including programs, receipts and other related papers, 1956-1985 

Box 34 folder 1-4: Travel..., 1986-1991 

Subseries: Personal

Box 34 folder 5: Automobiles

folder 6-7: Bradbury, Elizabeth, Dominic and Matthew

folders 8-18: Homes - including rental agreements, renovations and repairs to homes: Heigham Grove, Lockington and Primrose Cottage

folder 19: Insurance - including house, life and health

folder 20-21: Receipts - including utility, grocery and others

folder 22: Miscellaneous - personal

Subseries: Financial

Box 35 folder 1-2: Financial - including bank statements, investment information, tax papers

folder 3-4: BBC - check stubs, agreements, pay advices, royalty statements

folders 5-14: Royalty statements in alphabetical order by publisher, followed by foreign publishers.

folders 15-16: Royalty statements, contracts, etc. for articles and stories

Subseries: Miscellaneous

Box 35 folders 17-18: Brochures, ads, etc.

folder 19: Handwritten notes

folder 20: Clippings

Box 36 26 bound calendars, 1968-1993 

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