Papers comprising Sotheby's July 1989 sale lot 165, mainly n.d.

Title

Papers comprising Sotheby's July 1989 sale lot 165, mainly n.d.

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. d. 4002

Summary

Comprises, with a list of the papers and descriptive notes compiled by Sotheby's cataloguer,

Envelope from Sotheby's addressed to Chatwin in France, 12 July 1971

Filing cards from card index of research notes for 'The Nomadic Alternative' (see MSS. Eng. e. 3722-3723), n.d.

Extract from an early draft of 'The Nomadic Alternative' with quotations from Pascal on man's unhappiness and Cassian on acedia; 'Definitions of the malady' with a list of victims and notable victims; and on spring pilgrimages to shrines and sacred mountain tops, n.d.

Extract from an early draft of 'The Nomadic Alternative' on Sufis; Dervishes, Rumi, vagrant ascetics in India, and Buddhist wanderers, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on Taoism, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on cynics, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on desert fathers and Irish monks and on St Brendan's search for unsettled paradise, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on Cain; Mongolian mendicants, Crusades and penitential pilgrimage; and on how the Church consecrated homicide as a meritorious act of self-sacrifice providing the victim was an unbeliever, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on utopias; and on how the printing press diffused over Europe romance of Knight Errant, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'Hunting - the art of the minimum', n.d.

Extracts from early drafts of 'The Nomadic Alternative' and In Patagonia on 'Darwin and the Indians of Tierra del Fuego', n.d.

Filing card of notes on nomads, n.d.

Extracts from early drafts of 'The Nomadic Alternative' and In Patagonia on 'Hunting and the Golden Age'; on nomads of southern Sahara; Afghan nomads; nomad ethos; herding economy; raids; and Darwin and Yaghans, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'Nomad warfare is guerilla warfare', n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on nomad craving for colour and clothes, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'Things, territory and death'; on nomad disregard for possessions; and on how 'human morality became the morality of things' when men left their wandering life of hunting and clustered in settlements, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on Australian Aborigines; gypsies; Bushmen; and on Mbuti pygmies, n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'The Nomadic revolt', n.d.

Early draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on' The Nomadic sensibility', n.d.

Draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' on 'Nomadism and the children of Israel', n.d.

Draft extract from 'The Nomadic Alternative' in sections marked 'I' on dancing; 'II' on Sufis; 'III' on India and Buddha; 'IV' on Cynics; 'VI' on Essenes in Palestine, Desert Fathers, St Brendan; 'VII' (crossed out) on medieval pilgrimage and crusade; 'IX' crossed out and replaced with 'VII' on Beghards and Brethren of the Free Spirit; 'X' crossed out and replaced with 'VIII' on Utopian thinkers, revolutionaries, anarchists, and Bakunin, n.d.

Notes for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on Levi-Strauss', n.d.

Notes for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on senilicide, n.d.

Notes on Machiavelli, n.d.

Essay, possibly written by Chatwin during his undergraduate archaeology studies at the University of Edinburgh, on the establishment of Neolithic cultures in Britain, n.d.

Notes for 'The Nomadic Alternative' on the Golden Age; Society of Equals; Iroquois; and Tacitus's Fenni, n.d.

Draft opening chapter 'Progress Progress or Progress?' from 'The Nomadic Alternative', n.d.

Miscellaneous draft extracts from 'The Nomadic Alternative', n.d.

Date

c.1989, mainly n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box