Manuscript and typescript drafts and outlines of stories or novels
MS. Eng. c. 3926
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Manuscript and typescript drafts and outlines of stories or novels
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. c. 3926
Summary
Arranged alphabetically by title, 'Embers' - 'Yet She Must Die'. Most of the drafts are incomplete, unfinished, and undated, but they were written between the 1940s and the 1970s. They include notes and drafts of part of two unfinished Gervase Fen mysteries:
(fols. 15-55) 'Timor Mortis', a fair copy manuscript with pencil annotations at fols. 17v-18, 20, 22-6, most of which are by Philip Larkin, and
(fols. 72-82) 'Yet She Must Die', outlines, notes and a draft of the opening.
Date
[1940s-1970s], n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
82 Leaves
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Collection contents
Archive of Bruce Montgomery 'Edmund Crispin'
Literary papers
Working papers
Working papers from Montgomery's "Work in Hand" files
Manuscript and typescript drafts and outlines of stories or novels
