Nellie: Letters from Africa , 'Memoir', 1980

File

MSS. Afr. s. 2154 box 22

Nellie: Letters from Africa, with a Memoir by Elspeth Huxley (1980). Corrected typescript of Memoir:

(file 1) - early typescript draft of Elspeth Huxley's 'Memoir' introducing the extracts from Nellie Grant's letters, much amended and cut; first section. (70 fols)
(file 2) - early typescript draft of Elspeth Huxley's 'Memoir'; second section including material later divided into sections to introduce groups of extracts from Nellie Grant's letters. (134 fols)
(file 3) - draft typescript of 'Memoir', chapters 9-10; shorter version of latter part of file 2. (35 fols)
(file 4) - revised draft typescript of 'Memoir', chapters 1-4; corrected, amended and cut. (77 fols)
(file 5) - revised draft typescript of 'Memoir', chapters 5-8; corrected, amended and cut. (66 fols)
(file 6) - 'Spare sheets': typescript sheets, most duplicates, some including cuts from final version, and with some extracts from Nellie Grant's letters, and draft introduction to them. (233 fols)