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Sillitoe mss. II, 1950-1996

Summary Information

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

Creator
Sillitoe, Alan

Title
Sillitoe mss. II, 1950-1996

Collection No.
LMC 2141

Extent
ca. 3500 items.

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The Sillitoe mss. II, 1950-1996, consists of the papers of writer Alan Sillitoe, 1928- .

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, England, the son of a tannery laborer. He left school at 14 to work in a bicycle plant, and later joined the Royal Air Force. He served as a radio operator from 1946-1949 in Malaya, and, upon leaving the service, was found to have tuberculosis confining him to bed for many months. A blessing in disguise, Sillitoe received a small disability pension and so was able to pursue his dream of "learning to write." His first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was proclaimed by some critics as the finest novel of 1958. The Loneliness of the Long–distance Runner (contained in a short story collection of the same name) firmly established his literary reputation the following year. Both have been translated into numerous languages, made into films, and performed on stage and on television. Sillitoe has written and published a number of other novels, in addition to magazine and newspaper articles, poetry and many short stories.

Arrangement

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

Scope and Content Note

The Sillitoe mss. II, 1950-1996, consists of the papers of writer Alan Sillitoe, 1928- . The correspondence is mostly with colleagues and friends, including: Yehudi Amichai, Leonard Baskin, John Bratby, H.M. (Hillel Matthew) Daleski, Robert Graves, Polly Hope, Glyn Hughes, Ted Hughes, Christopher Logue, Aharon Megged, John Sawkins, Josef Śkvorecký, and Benjamin Tammuz. The writings contain drafts and manuscripts of articles, novels, poems, scripts, short stories, speeches and translations, both published and unpublished, including manuscripts for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Miscellaneous items include: financial papers and hundreds of clippings.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Acquired 1998.
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
Sillitoe mss. II, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Series: Box 1 I. Correspondence

Arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent.

Also included are some drafts and carbons of Sillitoe's letters which are filed with the correspondent.

List of correspondents:

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  • A.P. Watt & Son
  • Abelman, Paul
  • Adkin, Gilbert
  • Adkin, Mary
  • Amichai, Yehudi
  • Amichai, Hannah
  • Amis, Martin
  • Anders Nyborg A/S International Forlag
  • Anderson, Lindsay, 1923-
  • Archer, L.A.C.
  • Ashenden, Robin
  • Atkin, Pete
  • Atwood, Margaret (dictated, not signed)
  • Baerlocher, N
  • Bailey, C.F.
  • Bar-Adon, Pessah, 1907-
  • Barnett, Bill
  • Barnett, Steven
  • Bartelot, R.G.
  • Bartov, Hanoch
  • Baskin, Leonard, 1922-
  • Becker, Harold
  • Belbin, David
  • Bell, Alan
  • Bell, Veveen
  • Berheta, Margaret
  • Berman, Ed
  • Bernard, Suzanne
  • Bidwell, Ginger
  • Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Libraries
  • The Black Dwarf
  • Blomberg, Charles
  • Böll, Heinrich, 1917-
  • Books and Bookmen
  • Boré, Katia
  • Bowles, Paul
  • Boyson, Rhodes
  • Braine, John
  • Bratby, John, 1928-
  • Braun, Armand
  • and Marina Lupas
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
  • The British Council
  • British Rail International
  • Brocard
  • Brownjohn, Alan, 1931-
  • The Bulgarian News Agency
  • Carpenter, Humphrey
  • Cecil, David, Lord, 1902-
  • Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Chatto & Windus
  • Chernin, Kim
  • Children and Youth Aliyah
  • Clemens, Cyril, 1902-
  • Colin, Rosica (see: Rosica Colin Ltd.)
  • Collay, Sophie
  • Combes, Francis
  • Comstock and Rose, Attorneys and Counselors at Law
  • Constable Publishers
  • Contemporary Jewish Library
  • Coover, Robert
  • Cordell, Frank
  • Craigie, John
  • Crawford, Max, 1938-
  • Croft, Andy
  • Cutler, Ivor
  • Cutting, Nigel
  • Daily Telegram
  • Daleski, H.M. (Hillel Matthew)
  • Daleski, Shirley
  • de Cacqueray, Elizabeth
  • de Laneroll, Ros
  • Delaney, Shelagh, 1939-
  • Delenclos Déborah
  • Dillon, Millicent G.
  • Diogenes Verlag
  • Douthwaite, Pat (Hogarth)
  • Dove, Rita and Fred Viebahn, 1947-
  • Dragadze, Tamara
  • Duffy, Peter and Antonia
  • Edwards, Anne, 1927-
  • Evnine, George
  • Fainlight, Harry, d.1982 (b.1935)
  • Farmer, Penelope, 1939-
  • Feinstein, Elaine
  • Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (see: Perret, Christopher)
  • Fink, Ida
  • Finney, Albert, 1939-
  • Florence, Peter
  • Foster John L. (John Lawrence), 1930-
  • Frean, Peter
  • Friedlander, Albert H.
  • Friedlander, Daniel
  • Frischknecht, H
  • Furtseva, Ekaterina
  • Fussell, Paul, 1924- and Harriette
  • Galaif, Lisa
  • Gardner, Joan
  • Gardner, John
  • Garfinkel, Sharon
  • Garnett, David, 1892-
  • Geraghty, Tony
  • Gilbert, Martin, 1936-
  • Godwin, Fay
  • Gough, Dilys
  • Grafton Books
  • Graham, W.S. (William Sydney), 1918-
  • Graves, Beryl
  • Graves, Robert, 1895-
  • Graves, Thomas
  • Greene, Graham, 1904-
  • The Guardian
  • Halban, Peter
  • Halperin, John, 1941-
  • Halter, Aloma
  • Hanawa, Katsuichi
  • Hardman, Leslie H.
  • Hardy, Barbara Nathan
  • Harjula, Terry
  • Harper Collins Publishers
  • Hartshorne, Sally A.
  • Heitler, Emmett H.
  • Heponstall, Rayner
  • Hill, Susan
  • Hodgast, Matthew
  • Hodgson, Barbara
  • Hoffman, Daniel
  • Hoffman, Eve
  • Holland, Roy
  • Hope, Polly
  • Horovitz, Michael, 1935-
  • Hospital, Janette Turner, 1942-
  • Hughes, Glyn, 1935-
  • Hughes, Jane
  • Hughes, Roya
  • Hughes, Olwyn
  • Hughes, Ted, 1930-
  • Huisman-Berera, Anita
  • Hurst, George
  • Hutchison, Sidney C.
  • Hyatt, Mark
  • Hynes, Samuel Lynn
  • Imperial War Museum
  • Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-
  • Jay, Peter, 1945-
  • Jeantet, Laura
  • Jepson, Selwyn, 1899-
  • Jerusalem Post
  • Jewish Chronicle
  • Johnson, B.S. (Bryan Stanley, 1933-1973
  • Johnson, Robert Thomas
  • Joseph, Jenny
  • Joubert, Jean, 1928-
  • Joubert, Denyse
  • Karl, Frederick Robert, 1927-
  • Kazantzis, Judith
  • Keevil McIntosh Gibson Limited
  • Kennedy, William, 1928-
  • Kermode, Frank, 1919-
  • Kéry, László
  • Kirkham, Pat
  • Knowles, Mike
  • Kollek, Teddy, 1911-
  • Kushner, Tony
  • Kustow, Michael
  • Laurence, Margaret
  • Le Fanu, Mark
  • Lehnig, Hans-Joachim
  • Lesser, Wendy
  • Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
  • Levi, Peter
  • Levy, John D.A.
  • Linscott, Gill
  • Little, Brown and Company Publishers
  • Logue, Christopher, 1926-
  • London, Vivian
  • Long, Gerry
  • Luttrell, Steve
  • McAteer, Tracey T.
  • McCourt, Kevin C.
  • Macedo, Helder
  • McGrath, Pat
  • Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
  • Manchester Polytechnic
  • Marmur, Dow
  • Marris, Robin Lapthorn, 1924-
  • Martin, Helen
  • Martin, Phillip
  • Martin, William
  • Mason, Stanley
  • Mattea, Giovanna
  • Matthews, Stephen M.
  • Maynard, Edward J.
  • Megged, Aharon, 1920-
  • Mercer, David, 1928-1980
  • Miyake, Okiko
  • Mockridge, Clara
  • Monsees, Robert A.
  • Moscow Literary Gazette (Prudkov)
  • Murdoch, Iris
  • National Book League
  • Nautical Magazine
  • New Left Review (incomplete letter)
  • The New Yorker
  • Newton, Roy
  • Nottingham High School
  • Nottinghamshire Constabulary
  • Nottinghamshire County Council
  • Observer
  • Orbis, an International Quarterly of Poetry and Prose
  • Osborne, John
  • Owen, David
  • Oz, Amos
  • Pan Books Ltd.
  • Patterson, Christina
  • Perlès, Alfred
  • Perret, Christopher
  • Perutz, Kathrin, 1939-
  • Peter Owen Ltd. Publishers
  • Peters, Catherine
  • Pinchevsky, Mark
  • Pinter, Harold, 1930-
  • The Poetry Society
  • Polkey, Dennis
  • Prant, Carolyn & Peter
  • Price, Robert
  • Price-Jones, David
  • Priestley, Jacquetta Hopkins, 1910-
  • Puig, Valentí
  • Raphael, Frederic, 1931-
  • Ray, Cyril, 1908-
  • Reisz, Karel
  • Rekunkov, A.M. (Aleksandr Mikhaílovich)
  • Reynolds, Mack
  • Richardson, Richard
  • Richardson, Tony, 1928-1991
  • Rikman, Tamara
  • Riley, Jonathan
  • Robinson, Joan R.
  • Robson Books Ltd.
  • Rosenblum, E.S.
  • Rosica Colin Ltd.
  • Ross, Tony
  • Royle, Nicholas
  • Ruben, Simon Daniel
  • Rubens, Bernice
  • Sawkins, John
  • Schade, Frauke
  • Schlachter, Ann
  • Schlachter, Ronald
  • Schulman, Grace
  • Scott, Michael
  • Sergeant, Howard, 1914-
  • Shamir, Moshe, 1921-
  • Shinada, Shohei
  • Silk, Dennis, 1928-
  • Sillitoe, Brian
  • Sillitoe, Michael
  • Simon & Schuster
  • Sinclair, Clive, 1948-
  • Sindal, Bernard
  • Škvorecký, Josef
  • Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy), 1905-
  • Spector, David
  • Spender, Stephen, 1909-
  • Steadman, Ralph
  • Steen, Larry
  • Steiner, George
  • Steven, Stewart, 1937-
  • Stevenson, Anne
  • and Peter Lucas
  • Stoppard, Tom
  • The Suffolk Book League
  • Summers, John
  • Sunday Times
  • Surel, Jacques
  • Szirtes, George, 1948-
  • Tabata, Nobuko
  • Tammuz, Benjamin, 1919-
  • Tarr, John Charles
  • Tarrant, Crea
  • Tessa Sayle Literary and Dramatic Agency
  • The Times
  • Tuck, Anthony
  • Tynan, Kenneth, 1927-
  • Ungerer, Tomi, 1931-
  • Upchurch, Clarissa (see Szirtes, George)
  • Vansittart, Peter
  • W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd.
  • Wanamaker, Sam, 1919-
  • Waugh, Alec, 1898-
  • Weil, James L.
  • Wesker, Arnold, 1932-
  • Whine, Mike
  • White, Patrick
  • Willcox, Joan
  • Willis, Ted
  • Wilson, Angus
  • Wilson, Colin, 1931-
  • Wilson, Jean Moorcroft (see: Woolf, Cecil)
  • Wolsen, Sonya
  • Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry
  • Woolf, Cecil
  • The Writer and Human Rights in Aid of Amnesty International
  • Yehoshua, A.B.
  • Yoken, Mel B.

A-S

Box 2 T - Z; unidentified

Series: Box 2 II. Writings

The writings are arranged in the following subseries: MAJOR WORKS, such as novels, travel books and published plays; ARTICLES AND SHORT STORIES; BOOK REVIEWS; INTRODUCTIONS; POETRY; SCRIPTS, including film, stage and television plays; SPEECHES; TRANSLATIONS; WRITINGS BY OTHERS


Subseries: Box 2 MAJOR WORKS

Arranged alphabetically by title.

Includes both published and unpublished works.


Alan Sillitoe: Life Without Armour

folder 7: Bound notebook, revised, with some wireless notes. ca. 136 pages

folder 8: Notebook, first autograph draft of notes, autograph and typed, 100 pages with ca. 20 pages of insertions

folder 9: Notebook containing 27 pages of autograph manuscript towards the first draft

folder 10: Autograph manuscript in a notebook, 174 pages

folder 11: Autograph manuscript in a notebook, [261] pages

folders 12-17: Disorganized drafts, revised typescripts

folder 18: Penultimate draft. Typescript, with corrections

Box 3 folder 1: Penultimate draft...

folder 2: Computer printouts for The Daily Mail of a series based on the book

The Bandstand

folder 3: Typescript of an unpublished novel with few revisions, 181 pages.

This work was commissioned as a film script by Ulla Jacobson, the Swedish film star, and was taken up by Constantine Films of Stutgart for £250, but was never made. It was written in Soller in 1956/7.

Also includes: Autograph and typescript notes on a motor trip on Majorca, on the versos of final pages of draft, with a sketch map and a page of a poem by Ruth Fainlight.


By What Road

folder 4: Unpublished manuscript, autograph with revisions, 295 pages.

Sillitoe's first novel, written in Nottingham and dated Oct. 24, 1950. Sillitoe attributes the survival of this manuscript to the fact that he exchanged it with his brother for a suit. He bought it back in 1960 with £50 of the proceeds from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning .


Collected Stories

folder 5: Typescript of Preface

Death of William Posters

folder 6: Notebook, autograph manuscript with revisions, Vol. I, 94 leaves, with 20 typed pages with autograph revisions, loosely inserted, May 8, 1961 

folder 7: Notebook, autograph manuscript with revisions, Vol. II, leaves numbered 95-172, 18 pages of autograph manuscript loosely inserted

folder 8: Notebook, autograph manuscript with revisions, Vol. III, leaves numbered 174-241, dated 16 December 1963, plus 43 pages of household accounts of 1961-2 

folder 9: Notebook, autograph manuscript with revisions, Vol. IV, leaves numbered to 242-323, dated July 20, 1964, plus autograph draft of a poem "Tree"

folder 10-11: The second draft, revised typescript, ca. 350 pages

folder 12-14: Third Draft. Typescript with some autograph revisions, May 31-Nov. 24, 1961, ca.400 pages

The Deserters

folder 15: Revised typescript of an unpublished novel, with a page of autograph character notes, 401 pages, bound.

Written between 1950 and 1953 in Majorca.

Includes the following on the versos: (1) "Mr. Allen's Island," fantasy novel, 86 pages; (2) "Once in the weekend," autograph with revisions. Became the first chapter of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning , 10 pages, dated 8 Feb 1954; (3) Autograph list of stories on the same theme, with notes of where they were eventually used, including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ; (4) Autograph note on Majorca, comprising two paragraphs of an unfinished story: plus 4 lines later incorporated into Key to the Door (chapter 5); (5) Autograph note on travel from Granada to Malaga 1.5 pages [Sept. 1953]; (6) Autograph notes, with a few revisions, on Letters from Malaya [see Key to the Door], 30 pages; (7) Autograph notes on the scenery of Soller; (8) "Chopin's Winter in Majorca," by Luis Ripoli, autograph notes on a translation by Sillitoe, published in 1955 with an introduction by Robert Graves, 4 pages; (9) Autograph notes of characters and chapters for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning , 4 pages; (10) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Autograph, with light revision, of Chapters 6 to 18 (the end in this version), "First draft 1955-6," 181 pages, and 3 pages of chapter headings and notes. To lighten the load of luggage, Sillitoe at that time was not in the habit of keeping manuscripts. Chapters 6-18 were preserved because they were bound in this volume along with unpublished material; (11) Miscellaneous notes about writing, on Scott FitzGerald's The Beautiful and The Damned , "The Rates," and "What will be the plot of my novel," 8 pages; (12) "On Saturday Afternoon," autograph, 3 pages, late 1957. This story was published in The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner ; (13) Key to the Door , autograph manuscript of the first chapter, with light corrections, 12 pages; (14) The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner, autograph chapter for the continuation, with light revision and a list of chapter headings for the continuation, 19 pages. This chapter was not used. It was written in Camden Town in the Summer of 1958; (15) Autograph notes on writing travel books; (16) Autograph story about a kitten, Oct. 21, 1955, 2 pages; (17) "Baedeker to Damascony," autograph notes for a novel. This was eventually used for Travels in Nihilon (1971); (18) Autograph note about feeding a kitten from the back door in Majorca, Oct. 1, 1955.


Diary to Israel and Back

folder 16-17: Corrected typescript

Box 4 Down from the Hill

folder 1: Autograph manuscript, July 11, 1983, 61 pages

folder 2: Typescript, revised, ca.200 pages

folder 3: Third/fourth draft, typescript, revised, 185 pages

folders 4-5: Fourth/fifth draft, typescript, revised, 251 pages

folders 6-7: Top copy, 258 pages

folders 8-9: Second copy, 258 pages

folders 10-11: Printer's copy

Every Day of the Week

folder 12: Autograph copy of contents

Flame of Life (Original title: The Real Thing)

folders 13-14: Three notebooks, autograph manuscript begun Aug. 16, 1967, finished Apr. 23, 1973, 222 pages

folder 15: Revised autograph and typescript pages, ca.100 pages

folders 16-18: Second draft, revised typescript, 554 pages

Box 5 folders 1-2: Third draft, revised typescript, 484 pages

folders 3-5: Fourth and final draft, second carbon, 378 pages

folder 6: Uncorrected page proofs

Guzman Go Home and Other Stories

folders 7-13: Autograph and typescript drafts of the following short stories: Canals; Chicken; Guzman, Go Home; Isaac Starbuck; Revenge; The Road; The Rope Trick

folder 14: Draft of Preface; paperback cover; advertisement

folder 15: Printer's typescript

Her Victory

folders 16-20: Four notebooks, autograph manuscript, 410 pages, plus loose leaves, finished 24 June 1980 

Box 6 folder 1: Pre-first draft writings, ca.120 pages

folders 2-7: First draft, revised typescript, 754 pages, plus pages for insertion and rewrites

folders 8-10: Third draft, typescript, 738 pages

folders 11-12: Third draft,...

folders 13-15: Rewrites, typescript and autograph, ca.300 pages

folder 16: Printer's copy, largely unrevised, 781 pages

folders 1-3: Printer's copy,...

Key to the Door

folders 4-5: Revised typescript, 1954-1956, 311 pages.

This is the earliest version of Key to the Door , previously called "Letters from Malaya." The first draft was lost.


folder 6: Initial autograph notes, with revisions, [1953],  2 pages; and typescript of early version, 1953,  2 pages, "Soller"

folder 7: Notebook, autograph manuscript beginning with Chapter 18 and with an autograph plan for the novel on the front paste down, pagination runs from 390-570.

At the end is a first draft of "The Firebug."


folder 8: Notebook and some loose leaves, autograph, pages 571-697, Tangiers, Dec. 12, 1960 

folders 9-13: Revised typescript and autograph pages, ca.400 pages

folders 14-15: Printer's copy, with a few autograph revisions, 486 pages; paperback cover

Box 8 Last Loves

folders 1-3: Three autograph notebooks, ca.200 pages

folders 4-5: Second draft, revised typescript, [255] pages

folders 6-7: Third draft, revised typescript, 243 pages, plus 50 pages of notes and additions

folders 8-11: Fourth draft, unrevised, 2 copies; book jacket and copies of advertisements

Leonard's War

folder 12: Autograph notebook, 98 numbered pages.

Contains 14 pages of notes on the robbing of their car which became an article in The Guardian


folders 13-15: Second draft, revised typescript, ca.400 pages

folders 16-17: Third draft, revised typescript, 300 pages

Box 9 folders 1-2: Fourth draft, revised typescript, 264 pages

folders 3-4: Fifth draft, revised typescript, 303 pages

Life Goes On

folder 5-6: Two autograph notebooks, 1972-1979, 323 pages

folder 7: Revised typescript pages removed from above notebook, 59 pages

folders 8-11: Second draft, revised typescript, 610 pages

folders 12-16: Third draft, revised typescript, 713 pages, plus ca. 50 miscellaneous pages

Box 10 folder 1: Third draft,...

folders 2-5: Final uncorrected typescript version

folders 6: Revised autograph and typescript pages. 16 pages

folders 7-9: Printer's copy

folder 10-11: Proofread copy

folder 12: Uncorrected proof of book

The Loneliness of a Long-distance Runner (novella)

folder 13: Typescript and autograph draft pages and notes

folder 14-15: Autograph and typescript notes and pages concerning continuation of LDR as a novel, with revisions, written at Camden Town in 1958, ca. 200 pages

folder 16: Proof for paperback cover; poster in German; related photocopy of article

The Loneliness of a Long-distance Runner (short stories)

folder 17: Revised typescript, 228 pages

folder 18: Revised notes for "The Fishing Boat Picture," 6 pages

folder 19: Autograph list of the short stories in LDR, 1 page; proofs for paperback covers

folder 20: Photocopy of typescript of book, "adapted for Bullseye by Jean Nobes" 103 pages

The Lost Flying Boat

folders 21-22: Autograph manuscript, 206 pages, loose and notebook, Dec. 1, 1981-July 24, 1982 

Box 11 folders 1-3: Second draft, revised typescript, ca. 550 pages

folders 4-7: Third draft, revised typescript, ca. 500 pages

folders 8-9: Penultimate draft, with some revisions, 383 pages

folders 10-11: Final draft of third copy, 338 pages

folder 12: Autograph notes, 20 pages

folders 13-14: Printer's copy, 338 pages

folder 15: Photographs and postcards of flying boats and two examples of the paperback covers; advertisement

The Man Without a Home

folder 16: Typescript of an unpublished novel with very few revisions, 274 pages. No other version or copy survives. It was written in Menton and Soller in 1952-1953 

Men, Women and Children

folder 17: Drafts of Table of Contents and Foreword

folders 18: Autograph and typescript drafts of the following short story: Before Snow Comes

Box 12 folder 1-8: Autograph and typescript drafts of the following short stories: The Chiker; The End of Enoch?; Enoch's Two Letters; Mimic; Pit Strike; Scenes from the Life of Margaret; A Trip to Southwell; The View

folders 9-10: Printer's copy, 195 pages, including paperback cover

Mountains and Caverns

folder 11: Drafts of introductions and acknowledgements

folders 12-26: Autograph and typescript drafts of the following essays: Arnold Bennett: The Man From the North; 'Che' Guevara; Destiny of Insignificance; Evacuated; Government Forms; Lawrence and District; The Long Piece; Maps; Mountains and Caverns; National Service; Poor People; Robert Tressell; Sport and Nationalism; Through the Tunnel; The Wild Horse

folder 27: Typescript of third copy

Mr. Allen's Island

folder 28: Revised typescript of an unpublished fantasy novel, sketch map, 217 pages, Dec. 20, 1954 

(see also: Box 3, folder 15, no. 1)


The Open Door

folders 29-31: Three notebooks, autograph manuscript, 270 pages, with ca. 15 pages loosely inserted.

At the end of vol.3 is a manuscript of a lecture (7 pages), additions to the novel (16 pages), the preface to Collected Stories (4 pages), and My Country Childhood (4 pages)


Box 13 folders 1-4: Second draft, revised typescript, 639 pages

folders 5-9: Draft (fourth?), revised typescript, 800 pages

folders 10-13: Penultimate draft, revised typescript, 549 pages

folder 14: Miscellaneous draft pages, revised typescript, ca.900 pages

Box 14 folders 1-4: Miscellaneous draft pages,...

folder 5: Book jacket; paperback cover

Out of the Whirlpool

folder 6: First draft, autograph and typescript, ca. 210 pages

folder 7: Second draft, revised typescript, 152 pages

folder 8: Third draft, revised typescript, 123 pages

folder 9: Final typescript, no revisions

The Palisade

folder 10: Revised typescript of an unpublished novel, lacking Chapter 1 (used in The Open Door), 26 autograph pages, 305 typescript pages. This book was written at Soller in 1957 

The Ragman's Daughter

folder 11: Typescript of introduction; paperback cover

folder 12: The Bike - four unrevised typescripts, 29 pages; revised typescript, 7 pages

folders 13-14: The Firebug - second draft, revised typescript, with 8 pages of autograph manuscript, 23 pages; third draft, typescript, no revisions, 25 pages; fourth draft, revised typescript, 24 pages; penultimate draft, revised typescript, 23 pages; final draft, revised typescript, 25 pages; draft, revised typescript, with one page of autograph manuscript, 24 pages; unrevised typescript for the printer of pp. 48-73 of the book

folder 15-17: The Good Woman - first draft, autograph manuscript, Jan. 22, 1962, 40 pages; second draft, revised typescript, 1961, 36 pages; draft, revised typescript, 33 pages; three unrevised typescript drafts; incomplete typescript drafts with a few revisions; unrevised typescript for the printer of pp. 171-225 of the book

folders 18-20: The Magic Box - autograph, revised manuscript entitled "the Black Box," Dec. 26, 1961, 37 pages; first draft, revised typescript, Dec. 30, 1961, pages; revised typescript; unrevised typescript; unrevised typescript for the printer of pp. 74-118 of the book; printed galley for London Magazine

folder 21: The Other John Pell - second draft, revised typescript, 9 pages; third draft, corrected typescript, 7 pages; four typescripts, no revisions

folders 22-24: The Ragman's Daughter - autograph, 1st draft, Feb. 20, 1962, 21 pages; revised typescript, Mar. 8, 1962, 26 pages; three revised typescripts; five unrevised typescripts; typescript with revisions and printer's marks, 37 pages

Box 15 folders 1: The Ragman's Daughter - autograph,...

folders 2-3: To be Collected - first draft, incomplete, mostly autograph, 19 pages; second draft, revised typescript, with one page of autograph manuscript on the verso of "The Rats," 29 pages; third draft, revised typescript, 42 pages; unrevised typescript copy for the printer of pp. 130-170; miscellaneous pages

Box 1 Raw Material

folder 4: Notebook and loose autograph pages

folder 5: Second draft, revised typescript, ca. 120 pages

folders 6-7: Third draft, revised typescript, ca. 200 pages

folders 8-9: Fourth draft, revised typescript, ca. 200 pages

folders 10-11: Fifth draft, revised typescript, 261 pages

folders 12-13: Sixth draft, revised typescript, 264 pages

folder 14: Miscellaneous autograph and typescript pages

folders 15-16: Printer's copy, ca. 350 pages

Box 15 Road to Volgagrad

folder 17: Notebook and loose autograph pages

folders 18-19: Two revised typescript drafts

folder 20: Printer's copy

Box 16 folder 1: Printer's copy

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

folder 2: "Canning Circus," autograph manuscript with two typed pages which became Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Feb. 22, 1953, 10 pages.

On versos of pages 3-10 of a story called "Spider's Trap" (only pages extant) and two pages of "Mr. Sing," a very early story set in Malaya.


folder 3: Autograph notes on novels made while writing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, one typescript page on verso of "Mr. Allen's Island" ; two autograph notes; paperback covers; transparency for cover art; photocopies of two illustrations

The Second Chance and Other Stories

folders 4-18: Autograph and typescript drafts of the following short stories: Confrontation; The Devil's Almanack; Ear to the Ground; The Fiddle; The Gate of a Great Mansion; The Meeting; No Name on the Street; A Scream of Toys; The Second Chance; The Sniper; A Time to Keep

folders 19-20: Draft of book, typescript

folders 21-22: Printer's copy

Snowstop

folders 23-25: Three notebooks, autograph, ca.300 pages, with inserted notes and an introduction to an atlas of trench maps by Peter Chasseaud

Box 17 folders 1-2: Second draft, revised typescript, 435 pages

folders 3-5: Third draft, revised typescript, ca. 500 pages

folders 6-10: Fourth draft, two copies, revised typescripts, Oct. 22, 1991 

folders 11-13: Printer's copy

folder 14: Uncorrected proof, including book jacket proof

A Start in Life

folders 15-17: Autograph manuscript, 474 pages, and cards and notes

Box 18 folders 1-3: Second draft, revised typescript, 628 pages

folder 4-8: Final draft, revised typescript and photocopy, ca. 600 pages each

A Stay of Some Time

folder 9: Revised typescript of an unpublished travel book, the title of which was taken from the 1913 edition of Baedeker's Spain and Portugal.

Lacks Chapter 1 (the scenic notes from which were used in Death of William Posters), 248 pages.


The Storyteller

folders 10-14: Miscellaneous autograph and typescript pages

Box 19 folders 1-3: "Ante penultimate draft," revised typescript, 407 pages

folders 4-6: Final draft, revised typescript, 431 pages

Three Plays

folders 7-16: Autograph and typescript drafts for the following plays: The Interview; Pit Strike; and The Slot Machine (formerly: This Foreign Field), with photograph of Sillitoe beginning to write it on Sept. 28, 1964 in Shropshire

folder 17: Preface, four revised autograph and typescript copies; invitation to first performance

folder 18-19: Printer's copy

Travels in Nihilon

folder 20: Notes, loose and notebook

folders 21: Autograph manuscript, loose and notebook, 262 pages

Box 20 folders 1: Autograph manuscript,...

folders 2-3: Second draft, revised typescript, 300 pages

folders 4-5: Third draft, revised typescript, 323 pages

folder 6: Final draft(?), pp. 402-410 only

Oversize 1 Autograph first draft, 181 pages, folio volume (16 x 12 inches), Apr. 8, 1965-Jan. 15, 1967 

Box 20 folders 7-9: Second draft, revised typescript, finished in one of Grave's houses, revisions finished Apr. 17, 1967, 436 pages

folders 10-11: Final draft, revised typescript, 406 pages

folder 12: Chapter XIV, galley

folder 13: Map of the Soller/Deya area with passages of the novel on it, 1965-1966 

The Widower's Son

folders 14-16: Second draft, autograph

folders 17-18: Third draft, revised typescript

folder 19: Fourth draft, revised typescript

Box 21 folder 1-2: Fourth draft,...

folders 3-4: Draft, revised typescript

folders 5-7: Miscellaneous draft pages, revised typescript

folders 8-10: Printer's copy

Subseries: Box 21 ARTICLES AND SHORT STORIES

Autograph and typed revised drafts of articles, introductions, scripts, speeches, reviews, contributions to books and newspapers including the following titles:


Abstract and Modern

Against Ideology

The Air Conditioned Sauna

The Artist and His Relationship with Society

The Baikal Hound

Bennett's Letters

Bernard Sindall

Biking in France

The Book I Never Wrote

The Burren

Catalina

(unpublished)


A Century of Baedeker

Chance Reading

Chauvinistic

Comments on the Struga Festival

The Confidence Trick

Contemporary Proletarian Novelists

Dear Six Writers

Derbyshire

Diary for Guardian

Distance

Dobris

The Ebro, Not Wigan Pier

Education

Egypt

Eight Golden Sovereigns

First Day in Israel

The Flight of Arrows

The Freedom Games

The Freedom of the Individual in Society

Gift of Stones

Good Books

Happy Families

Have Soul, Will Travel

Helen Marshall

Israel and Lebanon

Jack London

Japan Journal

The Last Romantic

London

The Long Distance Runner Today

Lowestoft

Luxury at Luxor

Box 22 Macbett

[review of the Ionesco play]


Malayan Jungle

Mons-Ham Walk

Mother and Son

My Country Childhood

My Favourite Magazine

My First Job

My First Novel

My Moment of Success

My Opinion of Opinions

1940s, 1950s

Notes on the Painting of Phillip Martin

On Che Guevara

On the Tribulations of Translating

One Germany - Almost

Orwell

Patterson, Friend of Zion

Peterborough

A Plain Man's Guide to the Soul

Plays or Novels

The Poachers

Politics

Raleigh

Reflections on Zurich

Responsibility

Robbed!

Robert Graves

Robert Graves: King Jesus

Saint Pargoire and the Revolution

The Scarlet Town

The Second Birth of Children

Sergeant Mud (Jones)

Shorts and Long Shorts

Spycatcher

Support for Israel

To Wake Up Living

Travel and Art

Tribulations Seen in the Picture of a Great Lord

Under Spiritual Horizons

Underground is Where it Happens

A Visit to Lod Youth Day Centre and Neve Village

A way for Writers in the Admass Age

What Comes on Monday?

Wolstonecraft

Work

Untitled articles and fragments, including one folder of autobiographical writings

(3 folders)


Subseries: Box 22 BOOK REVIEWS

(3 folders)

Arranged alphabetically by author and book reviewed:


Baroja, Pio. The Troubled World

Callow, Phillip. Native Ground

Carras, Jacques. Beyond the Tunnel of History

Dixon, Norman F. On the Psychology of National Incompetence

Durrell, Lawrence. Collected Poems

Fink, Ida. Scrap of Time and Other Stories [?]

Flender, Harold. Rescue in Denmark and Warmbrunn, Werner. The Dutch Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 

Frank, Anne. Tales from the Secret Annexe, translated by Talph Manheim and Michel Mok

Galey, John. Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine

Gericault. A Horse Frightened by Lightning

Gosling, Ray. Personal Copy

Greave, Peter. The Painted Leopard

Harris, Frank. Bomb

Hassel, Sven. The Wheels of Terror and Sentjurc, Igor. Prayer for an Assassin and Braun, Andrei. The Paving Stones of Hell

Hattersley, Roy. The Maker's Mark

Hilton, Enid. More Than One Life

Jones, Glyn. The Learning Lark

King, Robin. The Angry Sun

Kolar, Jean. Return Fare

Lanzmann, Jacques. The American Rat

Lassell, Margaret. Wellington Road

Lawrence, D.H. Fantasia of the Unconscious and Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious

Mitford, Nancy. Don't Tell Alfred

Morton, H.V. In Search of the Holy Land

Nixon, Edna. Voltaire and the Calas Case

Norman, Frank. Stand on Me

Plomer, William. Collected Poems

Priestley, J.B. Literature and Western Man and Hadgraft, Cecil. Australian Literature

Pudney, John. Home and Away: An Autobiographical Gambit

Sagan, Francoise. Aimez-vous Brahms and Connell, Evan S. Mrs. Bridge and Durrell, Lawrence. Clea and Walser, Martin. The Gadarene Club

Salivarova, Zdena. Summer in Prague

Saroyan, William. The Human Comedy

Shah, Idris. Wisdom of the Idiots

Shadbolt, Maurice. The New Zealanders

Sher, Anthony. Middlepost

Sigal, Clancy. Weekend in Dinlock

Singer, I.J. The Brothers Ashkenazi

Storey, David. This Sporting Life

Trease, Geoffrey. Nottingham: A Biography

Trevor, William. A Writer's Ireland

Updike, John. A Month of Sundays

van der Post, Laurence. Journey Into Russia

Voynich, E.L. The Gadfly

Waugh, Evelyn. A Tourist in Africa

Wyndham, John. Trouble With Lichen

Subseries: Box 22 INTRODUCTIONS

(17 folders)

Introductions written by Sillitoe for the following books:


Allen, Walter. All in a Lifetime

Bryson, Emrys. Portrait of Nottingham

Chasseaud, Peter. Topological Atlas of 1914-18 

Dor, Moshe. The Burning Bush

Green, G.F. Land Without Heroes

Hamilton, Alex. As If She Were Mine

Longman Education.

[group of stories by Sillitoe used in untitled collection]


McGrath, Pat. The Green Leaves of Nottingham

Perret, Christopher. Memory of a Parasite

Sawkins, John. Poetry

Toft, John. The Wedge

White, Gilbert. The Journals of Gilbert White

Unidentified authors and books

(5 folders)


Subseries: Box 22 POETRY

Many of these poems also appear in the "published collections of poetry" section.

Individual poems. Arranged alphabetically by title.

Contains autograph and typescript drafts and final copies.

Poem list:

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  • Abundance
  • Age
  • "Albertina" or "The Fly-sting" or "The Daily Venomous Needle of the Gnat"
  • Alchemist
  • Aleph
  • Alioth
  • Altamira
  • Ark
  • Artist's Studio
  • Atomic Goodnight
  • Autumn
  • Autumn 1971
  • Baby
  • Barbarians
  • Be Your Age
  • The Blacksmith's Song
  • Bouquet
  • Cabo Finisterre
  • Cancer
  • Car Dump
  • Car Fights Cat
  • Cat Camouflage
  • Caves
  • Chain
  • Changing Course
  • Chasing the Dead
  • Choppers
  • Coast Near Nahariya
  • Concerto
  • Convalescence
  • Creation
  • A Crying Child
  • Day-Dream Communique
  • The Dead
  • Dead Fly
  • Dead Man's Grave
  • Dead Sea Talk
  • The Death of a Bird
  • Death of Ehrenberg
  • The Demon Lover
  • Departure
  • Dialogue
  • Ditchling Beacon
  • Dividers
  • Duel Navigation
  • Eagledream
  • The early morning departure of the Car Nicobar Special from Butterworth, Malaya
  • Early School
  • Ein Gedi
  • Empty Quarter
  • End
  • Epitaph
  • Esther
  • Eurasia: Jetnotes
  • Eve
  • Exfiltration
  • Ezekiel
  • The Fall
  • Farewell
  • Fascist Youth Rally outside Malaga Cathedral
  • Fate of an icicle
  • February Poems
  • Festival
  • A Few Lines on Malvern Abbey
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Finland
  • Fire
  • First Poem
  • The Fish of the Zodiacs
  • Fishes
  • Follow the Deepsea Fish
  • For a Jewish Prisoner in Russia
  • For Ruth
  • Fox
  • Francoise
  • Frog Poem
  • Full-Bawd
  • Full Moon Through a Telescope
  • Full Moon's Tongue
  • Gambler
  • Geographers in Love
  • Ghosts
  • Goddess
  • Goodbye Kursk
  • Gulf of Bothnia
  • Guide to the Tiflis Highway
  • The Hanged Man
  • Hephzibah
  • Honour
  • Horse on Wenlock Edge
  • Hospital Sunset
  • House
  • Housewife
  • How to Keep Thin in a Fat Society
  • Hunger
  • I Love You
  • I tell myself...
  • Illness
  • In Israel, Driving to the Dead Sea
  • In Summer and South...
  • Intruder
  • Irkutsk 1963
  • Israel
  • Kettle
  • Killing
  • Kindergarten
  • The Knight in the Tiger's Skin
  • Lady of Bapaume
  • Lake District Cottage
  • Lamp Post
  • Last Thoughts
  • Learning Hebrew
  • Left as a Desert
  • Left Handed
  • Lenz
  • The Life-Flame
  • Lightning
  • Lizard
  • Long Love, Lost Love
  • Louise
  • Love in the Environs of Voronezh
  • Love is a Broken Heart
  • Lovers
  • Lover's Plea
  • Love's Mansion
  • Lucifer's Bridge
  • Made For Each Other
  • Man and Woman
  • The Map
  • March Birth
  • Mayday-Mayday-Mayday
  • Meeting (2)
  • Mercutio's Pintable Death
  • Mixed Up Mystic Thoughts Of A Midwestern Missile Man
  • The Moon
  • Morning
  • Moth
  • Nails
  • Naked
  • A New Rich
  • Newspapers
  • Night
  • North Star Rocket
  • Nottingham Castle
  • Nuclear Warning
  • O Why grow You Afraid...
  • Odours
  • An Old Friend Reaching Jerusalem
  • Old Man
  • On First Going Into a Factory to Work
  • On First taking Streptomycin
  • On Seeing Jerusalem
  • On the Last Soldier Killed in the War of Independence for Israel, 1948-9
  • The One and Only Love
  • The One Too Many
  • Open Plan
  • Optics
  • Oxney
  • Pander
  • Peace-time Guns
  • Picnic
  • Piddinghoe Elegy
  • Pieces of Eight
  • Pilgrim
  • Pilgrims' Route
  • Place Without a Name
  • Plague Meeting
  • Poem (2)
  • Poem Left by a Dead Man
  • Poem Written on the Hereford Train
  • The Poet
  • Poetry
  • Poet's Chauffeur
  • Rabbit
  • Railway Station
  • Rats
  • Real
  • Rebels
  • The Reckoning
  • Reflections on July 1
  • Resurrection
  • Ride It Out
  • The Rights of Man
  • The River
  • The River Has Burst Its Banks
  • The Rock
  • Romeo
  • Rose
  • Ruth
  • St. Pancras
  • Salt Poem
  • Samenessess
  • Say Sheffield
  • The Sea of Galilee
  • Sea Talk
  • Secret Sources
  • Semipalatinsk
  • Shaman
  • The Shropshire Woman
  • Siberian Lake
  • Signal Box
  • Silence and Stillness
  • Sleep
  • Smile
  • Snow at Aix
  • Snow on the North Side of Lucifer
  • Soldiers' Ditty
  • Somme
  • Song
  • Sonja's Dead Horse
  • Spanish New Year
  • The Spider and the Fly
  • Stars
  • Stones in Picardy
  • Storm
  • Storm (at Bellagio)
  • Strategy
  • Suicide
  • Surveying
  • Survival
  • Synagogue in Prague - 1963
  • Terrorist
  • Thirteen Lines
  • This New Dimension
  • Thistles
  • Those Stupid Little Trumpets of the Lord
  • Thoughts in Hospital
  • Through the Jungle
  • To Esther
  • To the New Moon
  • Toasting
  • Toni Moreno
  • The Track
  • Tramp on the Coast of Life
  • The Traveller
  • Travelling
  • Tree
  • Twentieth Century Elegy
  • Two Cities
  • Two on Easter Sunday
  • Unity
  • Unlucky Poem
  • View from Misk Hill
  • Vision
  • W
  • Waking
  • Warning
  • We
  • The Weight of Summer
  • What is Love?
  • The White Path
  • Who Died of Love
  • Wild Cat
  • Window
  • Wood-in-Oxney
  • Woods
  • Xmas
  • A Year Carol
  • Yes

A-C

D-Z

Group of poems sent to Madge Hale (?) to critique

Portuguese translations of poems by Sillitoe

Russian translations of poems by Sillitoe

untitled poems

Box 23 Alan Sillitoe: Collected Poems

(1 folder)


A Falling Out of Love

(2 folders)


Love in the Environs of Voronezh

(3 folders)


Poems for Shakespeare, by Sillitoe, et al.

(1 folder)


The Rats and Other Poems

(1 folder)


Snow on the North Side of Lucifer

(3 folders)


Box 24 Snow on the North Side (cont.)

(2 folders)


Storm and Other Poems

Sun Before Departure

(4 folders)


Tides and Stone Walls

(5 folders)


Subseries: Box 24 SCRIPTS

Che. Autograph and corrected typescripts of film script

(3 folders)


The Fishing Boat Picture. Corrected typescript of an early draft of film script, headed "Uncle Harry," 6 pages

(not complete)


Fuente Ovejuna, by Lope de Vega. Autograph, corrected typescripts and mimeographs. Translated and adapted by Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight, and titled "Citizens as Soldiers."

(5 folders)


Hail to the Globoes! A one act play. Carbon typescript

The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner

Typescript of a play, adapted by Stephen Jameson and Paul Brennen

Corrected typescript of a film-script, 162 pages

Carbon typescript and photocopy of a multi-media stage play, by Harry L. Murray. Including contents, stage directions and drawings

(2 folders)


Box 25 On Saturday Afternoon. Mimeograph of broadcast script of a short story from "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." Third Programme, Transmission: 16 Nov. 1959 

Pit Strike. Typescript and carbon of television script.

The Ragman's Daughter. Film script. First draft, autograph and typescript copies; second draft, revised typescript, including excised passages, four pages of loose autograph notes; third draft, revised typescript; draft, mimeograph, Apr. 26, 1970, with undated letter from Harold Becker; Harold Becker's notes on the script; notes by Sillitoe; autograph plan for the film script

(5 folders)


Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Incomplete autograph and typescript film script. The first page has suggestions by Karel Reisz. Includes program for 1990 showing at the Mediatheque Gutenberg and a showbill for The Baronet Theatre, New York City

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Typescript of play script, some pages revised in another hand (probably made at the suggestion of Frank Dunlop) at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1965 

A Start in Life. Autograph and typescript of synopsis for film

Subseries: Box 25 SPEECHES

1959-1989. 

(8 folders)

Arranged chronologically by date given. Followed by several interviews.


Subseries: Box 25 TRANSLATIONS

Botev, Khristo. Translations of various poems from Bulgarian

Martin, Collete. Journey to Morocco.

Including Sillitoe's translation of Martin's article "A Woman in the Desert." The article was published in The Geographical Magazine , without Sillitoe recognized as the translator


Subseries: Box 25 FRAGMENTS

Unfinished or fragments of articles and other writings

(1 folder)


Subseries: Box 25 WRITINGS BY OTHERS

Articles, broadcasts and other writings about Sillitoe. Other writings such as poetry not related to Sillitoe.

(2 folders)


Series: Box 25 III. Miscellaneous

Subseries: Box 25 FINANCIAL MATERIALS

(4 folders)

Includes bank receipts, tax papers, royalty statements, correspondence with accountants, financial statements


Subseries: Box 25 MISCELLANY

(6 folders)

Contains flyers announcing speaking engagements for Sillitoe and brochures for festivals, symposia, etc. where Sillitoe was a participant


Subseries: Boxes 25-27 CLIPPINGS

Contains news clippings of articles both by and about Sillitoe, as well as of reviews of his works.


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