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An incomplete set of typed draft essays from 'My Time in Space', all dated. Notes for the bibliography at the beginning, and the following chapters: 'Birdlife'; 'The Curvature of the Earth'; 'Ballistics'; two drafts of 'A Career in Art; fragment of 'Constellation and Questionmark'; 'A House on a Small Cliff'.

An incomplete set of typed draft essays from 'My Time in Space', all dated. Notes for the bibliography at the beginning, and the following chapters: edited notes for the bibliography, draft table of contents; 'Birdlife'; 'The Curvature of the Earth'; 'Ballistics'; 'A Career in Art'; 'Forms in the Void'; 'Thickets and Dark Woods'; 'Firewalking'; 'The Echosphere'; 'A House on a Small Cliff'; 'The Fineness of Things'; 'The Extreme Edge'.

Undated piece entitled 'Rockcrystal'.

Handwritten and typed drafts of 'The Extreme Edge', previously entitled 'Nearing the Edge'. The final dated version is 15 January 2001.

CV for Tim Robinson. Typescript draft of 'My Time in Space' in its entirety, dated 18 Jun 2000.

Fair copy of 'My Time in Space' sent to Lilliput Press on 18 January 2001. The contents are slightly different than in the published manuscript, with the essay 'The Curvature of the Earth' expanded into 2 sections.

Letter from Brendan Barrington of Lilliput Press enclosing proofs of the first seven essays in 'My Time in Space', Robinson's handwritten notes.

Some reworked drafts of the essay 'Constellation and Questionmark', alternatively named 'Two Constellations', the most recent dated 12 Feb 2001.

Folder of illustrations for 'My Time in Space', including drawings for the essay 'Constellation and Questionmark', and photographs from art installations including 'Four Colour Theorem' and 'To the Centre'. Photographic prints and contact sheets of these works also included.

File of press cuttings containing reviews of My Time in Space.

Manuscript material documenting the creation and publication of Tim Robinson's 2002 book of essays - 'Tales and Imaginings'. This is a collection of his writing from over five decades, with re-worked early material from the 1960s.

Four folders of early Tim Robinson writing, when he was writing under the name Timothy Drever. 'The Festival of Creation' was originally conceived as a novel when he first worked on it in the 1960s. It became truncated into the first short story in the 2002 book 'Tales and Imaginings'.

Folder 1: Handwritten notes sketching out the novel.

Folder 2: Handwritten notes originally captioned 'Scraps from Novel 1', with doodles and number puzzles interspersed.

Folder 3: Drafts (one handwritten, two typed from 'The Festival of Creation' of 'Now and Later'. Drafts (one handwritten, two typed) of 'The Identicals', which later became 'Secret Meeting'.

Folder 4: Typed draft of 'Now and Later'.