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Typescript draft of 'Words As Sweet as Honey' ( The Guardian version of 'The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands') beginning 'I came to write through reading.' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of 'Words As Sweet as Honey' ( The Guardian version of 'The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands') beginning 'I came to write through reading.' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of 'Wheels' beginning 'Grey concrete and steel and glass and the slow raindrip of the morning station, three porters pushing an empty trolley up the platform to a stack of grey mailbags....' Inscription reads 'First draft', no other inscriptions or amendments, paginated pp 1-18.

Typescript draft of 'Wheels' this draft bears the title 'My Future At My Back', begins 'Grey concrete and steel and glass in the slow raindrip of the morning station, three porters pushing an empty trolley up the platform to a stack of grey mailbags....' Contains handwritten amendments, inscription reads 'draft # 1st'. Typescript identical to P71/364, 'My Future At My Back', paginated pp 1-18.

Typescript draft of 'Wheels' bearing the title 'The Future That I Had'; begins 'Grey concrete and steel and glass in the slow raindrip of the morning station, three porters pushing an empty trolley up the platform to a stack of grey mailbags, the loose wheels rattling, and nothing but wait and watch and listen, and I listened to the story they were telling.' Contains handwritten amendments paginated pp 1-10.

Typescript draft of 'What Ever You Say, Say Nothing' beginning 'There were two sectarian states in place, North and South, inward looking and ostensibly secure, secretly content with one another despite public claims and utterances.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-19. Reverse side contains typescript fragments from Amongst Women .

Typescript draft of 'What Ever You Say, Say Nothing' bearing the title 'May They All Climb Trees: Change In Our Time' beginning 'There were two sectarian States in place, North and South, inward looking and ostensibly secure, secretly content with one another despite public claims and utterances to the contrary.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1- 19. Elements of the style and phraseology suggest that this article may have been adapted for an oral address, for example 'You may have noticed that I haven't referred to Northern Ireland, other than in passing, and this is deliberate. As I said in the beginning, when I was young there were two sectarian states in place, North and South....' Reverse side contains typescript fragments from Amongst Women .

Typescript draft of two statements relating to the maintenance of the Provisional I.R.A. cease fire and the setting up of incident centres. One statement was to be released by the Republican Movement and the other by the Northern Secretary Merlyn Rees. Also handwritten re-drafting of the P.I.R.A. statement.

Typescript draft of two pages from a film script set in Cleggan, begins '... Hair) It's been a rough time. Mother's death.' Paginated pp 34-35.

Typescript draft of three extracts of 'The Leavetaking' beginning 'I watch a gull's shadow float among feet on the concrete as I walk in a day of my life with a bell, its brass tongue in my hand, and think after all the first constant was water', 'Crazy word came Sunday from my father', ' "The bride came down the aisle to the tune of here Comes the Bride, dressed all in white, looking the picture of death," was found in faded ink among the letters in a trunk after her mother-in-law's death, a description of her wedding day.' May have been published in 'The New Review' , paginated pp 1-9.