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:
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