MS 924 01 11 52
Reference code
MS 924 01 11 52
Title
Hugo Williams: ‘Billy's Rain' drafts: Miscellaneous manuscripts and typescripts
Level
File
Date
1998-1999
Extent & medium
45 sheets
Content description
This file includes poems considered for inclusion in the book, but subsequently omitted. They are mostly poems sent to the London Review of Books over the preceding years.
Also included are letters from Mary-Kay Wilmers on behalf of London Review of Books providing her opinion on the poems and noting the ones they wished to publish. The file represents Williams’ initial work on compiling poems for the book
It includes:
‘Autumn’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Our Walk’: 7 autograph manuscripts and 3 corrected typescripts
‘Trivia’: 1 autograph manuscript and 3 corrected typescripts
‘Strange Meeting’: 2 corrected typescripts and 1 clean copy typescript
‘Congratulations: 2 corrected typescripts
‘The Cricketer’: 2 corrected typescripts and 1 clean copy typescript
‘Siren Song’: 2 corrected typescripts and 1 clean copy typescript
‘Till Soon’: 1 corrected typescript
‘Among the Combs’: 1 corrected typescript
‘All That’: 1 corrected typescript
‘Early Morning’: 1 corrected typescript
Also included are letters from Mary-Kay Wilmers on behalf of London Review of Books providing her opinion on the poems and noting the ones they wished to publish. The file represents Williams’ initial work on compiling poems for the book
It includes:
‘Autumn’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Our Walk’: 7 autograph manuscripts and 3 corrected typescripts
‘Trivia’: 1 autograph manuscript and 3 corrected typescripts
‘Strange Meeting’: 2 corrected typescripts and 1 clean copy typescript
‘Congratulations: 2 corrected typescripts
‘The Cricketer’: 2 corrected typescripts and 1 clean copy typescript
‘Siren Song’: 2 corrected typescripts and 1 clean copy typescript
‘Till Soon’: 1 corrected typescript
‘Among the Combs’: 1 corrected typescript
‘All That’: 1 corrected typescript
‘Early Morning’: 1 corrected typescript
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