Undated manuscripts and typescripts 'Early Work', [1940s], n.d.

File

MS. Eng. c. 3925

Held at the Weston Library

From a folder, comprising:

(fols. 1-41) The first of two typescripts loosely inserted into black notebook boards, an incomplete draft of a play with characters John, Jocasta and Godfrey, annotated throughout by Ronald Lloyd Jones
(fols. 42-68) The second of two typescripts loosely inserted into black notebook boards, two chapters of a novel(?) beginning, 'Opinion, observed Sweeney'
(fols. 71-86) The first of three manuscript essays, 'The Modern Detective Novel'
(fols. 87-9) The second of three manuscript essays, 'Gray on Wagner';
(fols. 90-2) The third of three manuscript essays, Alice and the Nature of Comedy [incomplete]
(fols. 93-100) The first of two incomplete manuscript drafts of novels or stories beginning, 'I have not forgotten the day when John Murchison first came to Hartford Basin'
(fols. 93-102) The second of two incomplete manuscript drafts of novels or stories, beginning 'Gervase Fen came to Lanthorn House'; and
(fols. 103-12) an amended fair copy manuscript of a Biblical play, apparently in the hand of Philip Larkin, 'The Murder of Sisera', n.d. [1940s?]

Dates

112 Leaves

MS. Eng. c. 3925

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