MS 924 01 05 43
Reference code
MS 924 01 05 43
Title
Hugo Williams: ‘Writing Home’ drafts: Miscellaneous manuscripts and typescripts
Level
File
Date
1980-1985
Extent & medium
78 sheets
Content description
This file contains various manuscripts and typescripts which were filled separately from the drafts of individual poems, as well as drafts of poems that were considered for the work but omitted from the final publication. The drafts are mainly early versions written under original titles.
The sheets often contain more than one poem or have been stapled together, showing the original composition of the individual poems and the work as a whole.
It includes:
- ‘Making Friends with Ties’ [4 corrected typescripts and 4 clean copy typescripts]
- ‘A Start in Life’ [3 corrected typescripts and 2 clean copy typescripts]
- ‘Death of an Actor’ [3 corrected typescript and 4 clean copy typescripts]
- ‘When Will his Stupid Head Remember’ [1 corrected typescript and 2 clean copy typescripts]
- ‘Walking out of the room Backwards’ [1 corrected typescript]
- ‘Three Quarters’ [1 clean copy typescript]
- ‘Early Work’ [1 clean copy typescript]
- ‘Unfinished Poem’ [1 clean copy typescript]
- ‘A Little While Longer’ [2 clean copy typescript]
- ‘Tangerines’ [1 corrected typescript]
- ‘Dégagé’ [1 corrected typescript]
- ‘Before the War’ [1 corrected typescript]
- Manuscript notes
The sheets often contain more than one poem or have been stapled together, showing the original composition of the individual poems and the work as a whole.
It includes:
- ‘Making Friends with Ties’ [4 corrected typescripts and 4 clean copy typescripts]
- ‘A Start in Life’ [3 corrected typescripts and 2 clean copy typescripts]
- ‘Death of an Actor’ [3 corrected typescript and 4 clean copy typescripts]
- ‘When Will his Stupid Head Remember’ [1 corrected typescript and 2 clean copy typescripts]
- ‘Walking out of the room Backwards’ [1 corrected typescript]
- ‘Three Quarters’ [1 clean copy typescript]
- ‘Early Work’ [1 clean copy typescript]
- ‘Unfinished Poem’ [1 clean copy typescript]
- ‘A Little While Longer’ [2 clean copy typescript]
- ‘Tangerines’ [1 corrected typescript]
- ‘Dégagé’ [1 corrected typescript]
- ‘Before the War’ [1 corrected typescript]
- Manuscript notes
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