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Includes both published and unpublished works.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folder 3: Typescript of an unpublished novel with few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folder 4: Unpublished manuscript, autograph with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 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