Copybook containing a handwritten draft of ' Madness/Creativity' beginning 'I have to say at once that I feel nothing but unease when confronted with such a theme'. Paginated pp 1-4. Also contains a handwritten draft of a review of Cooler by the Lake by Larry Heinemann, beginning ' "Maximilian Nutmeg was a mildly harmless, mostly incompetent petty crook always hustling for money." ' Paginated pp 1-6.
Copybook containing a handwritten draft of part of 'The White Boat' this draft bears the title 'The Old Man', begins 'The old Englishman had taken a big white houseboat all the way up the Shannon from Limerick to the quay.' Also contains a handwritten draft of 'Bank Holiday' beginning ' "There is only such love in any life" '; also contains fragments of 'Bank Holiday' . Also contains handwritten fragments of a piece of fiction, probably 'A Ballad' . Inscription on the cover reads 'A Ballad' .
Copybook containing a four of partial drafts of 'The Country Funeral', one of which begins 'As always Philly McDonald came home from the Saudi oilfields in a fever of excitement.' Another paginated pp 43 - 63 begins '... his head to the offer of a second drink.'
Copybook containing a handwritten draft 'Crossing The Line', this draft bears the title 'The Scab'; begins 'He met me off the late bus from the city, a big powerful man, prematurely bald, the increasing fat still marbled on the face and body, not yet quite starting to sag.' Also contains three handwritten drafts of parts of 'Like All Other Men', these drafts bear the title 'Nun', one of which begins ' "That's the six marker. I'd soon be in my own boots." '
Copybook containing a handwritten draft of a film treatment of 'Amongst Women' beginning 'I see it as a novel about power, how people especially women who have no power in a patriarchal society create room and space through appearing to yield....' Also contains a handwritten draft of a review of 'Across the Bridge: Stories' by Mavis Gallant, published under the title 'The Adult Mysteries' in ' The New York Times Book Review' on 12 September 1993; begins 'Mavis Gallant has written much short fiction.' Also includes a handwritten draft of a piece on Hannah Arendt and Richard Ford beginning 'The two books I pick for taking away in Summer can be dipped into set aside, reflected upon, even devoured.' This piece doesn't appear to have been published.
Copybook containing a handwritten draft of a film treatment of 'Iceland Fisherman'. beginning 'I feel a clear and more realistic background has to be invented for Gaud and her father.' Copybook also contains a handwritten draft of the text of an address given at Trinity College beginning 'One of the few joys of growing older is that we were to know more about the facts that underlie and surround our lives.'
Copybook containing a handwritten draft of a portion of part 1 of 'The Leavetaking' beginning 'Coming from the spring sunlight into blinded darkness of the sickroom he paused in his slow way at the door for the vagueness to harden about the bed where she lay, for the pale face to show on the pillow of her hair against the linen, but when it did grow mutely clear it was easier for him to remain standing in the doorway than to draw closer.' Also contains a handwritten draft of 'Wheels'' ' beginning 'I was going home, in the morning cold of Westland Row Station, three porters pushing a trolley up the near empty platform, loose wheels rattling.' Also contains a handwritten draft of a review of ' Between Life and Death ' by Nathalie Sarraute beginning ' "Nearer to me a fine mist" This is I suppose, the description of the final bringing together of "the world of literature and the world of life" '.