Four typed drafts of Colville Scott's Itinerary for publication with the 1853 Connemara map to be used in the published manuscript. Two copies of the final map and itinerary, as per the published book.
Literary manuscripts
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Cover letters from Tim to Máiréad Robinson enclosing re-writes of chapters, affectionate in tone.
The chapters are the Ballynahinch chapters, 'The Demesne', 'Dick Martin Rules', 'Romance and Ruin', 'The Reckoning', 'The Sportsmen' and 'The Cuckoo of the Wood'.
Typescript drafts of most of the manuscript of 'Listening to the Wind'.
Two draft tables of contents for 'Connemara: From Tidemark to Skyline', (3 Sep 2005);
'The Sound of the Past and the Moment of Writing'; 'Scailp' (handwritten note to say amended 31/4/03), 'The Hillocks of Fiodán' (May 2003); 'Dead Man's Grave and Halfway House' (14 Aug 2005); 'Superincumbent Intellect' (4 Apr 2003); two drafts of 'The Last of the Turf' (10 Aug 2004 and 13 Jan 2006); 'Climbing Errisbeg' (undated); 'Murvey, with a note on Costa del Sod' (undated); 'The Boneyard' (22 Sep 2003); ''Ogygia Lost' (4 Nov 2003 and 2 Jan 2006); 'Holiday Island' (6 Aug 2004); 'The Wind Through the House' (undated).
'The Neighbourhood' (Aug 2004); 'The Foundations of Roundstone', which became 'Smugglers and Asylum Seekers' in the final published version (18 Jun 2004); 'A Cure of Souls' (19 Jun 2004); 'The Cold of Charity' (25 Nov 2004-1 Jan 2005); 'The Robinson Era' (undated); 'Inis Ní', which became 'Inis Ní in Winter' in the published version (9 Aug 2004); 'The Catchment' (18 Apr 2005); 'Tales to Lengthen the Road' (4 Mar 2004); 'Ballynahinch: The Demesne' (16 Feb 2005); 'Ballynahinch: the Island' (22 Feb 2005).
'Ballynahinch: Dick Martin Rules' (25 Feb 2005); 'Ballynahinch: Romance and Ruin' (28 Feb 2005); 'Ballynahinch: the Reckoning' (2 Mar 2005); 'Ballynahinch: the Sportsmen' (2 Mar 2005); two drafts of 'Walking the Skyline' (21 May 2005-18 Apr 2006); 'The Cuckoo of the Wood' (May 2005); 'Glass, Marble, Steam, Fire' (Jul 2005);'The Saddlepoint', which became 'Curse and Blessing' in the published version (9 May 2005).
Subsequent versions of the following chapters of 'The Last Pool of Darkness':
Index, proof notes, the Author's Note, and draft table of contents; 'The Dark Night of the Intellect' (Oct 2006); 'A Suspect Terrane' (2 Oct 2006); 'Faults' (2 Aug 2006); 'W. in Rosroe' and 'Thinking on the Ocean's Edge' (24 Oct 2006); 'The Mermaid' (11 May 2008); 'Moaning about the Chimneys' (15 Feb 2007); 'The Sublime and the Religious' (undated); 'Unfinished History' (20 Sep 2007); 'Twilight on Old Stones' (23 Oct 2006); 'An Ear to the Earth' (undated); 'Fate' (17 Oct 2007); 'Refloating Inishbofin' (6 Jun 2007); 'In the Mist' (3 Oct 2007); 'Against Infection', which became 'Plague and Purity' in the published version, (31 Oct 2006 and Sep 2007); 'Sometime Island' (7 Dec 2007); 'The Bible Wars in Clifden', which became 'Controversial Pitch' in the published version, (27 Jun 2007); 'From Ballinaboy' (2 Dec 2007); 'Photons in the Bog' (25 Jul 2007); 'The Kingdom of Manannán' (15 Nov 2007); 'Who Owns the Land' (23 Mar 2007); 'A Lake Full of Sand' (7 Sep 2007); 'Pilgrimage and Picnic' (5 Dec 2006); 'To the Dark Tower' (16 Apr 2008); Bibliography (undated).
Early typescript draft of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs. Handwritten comments on the manuscript by Etienne Rynne.
Carbon copy of a book review written by Tim Robinson of Patricia Boyle's 'John O'Donovan (1806-1861), a biography', reviewed February 1988.
Two handwritten pages marked "half-dream", dated July 1987.
Typed carbon copy 'Evelyn's Shop', undated.
Loose handwritten sheets headed 'Proxemics' and 'Distemics'. Undated, but reference an article in 1987, so after this date.
Floppy disc, containing the final text/Version 3 of 'Oileáin Árainn'.
Three typescript drafts of the manuscript of 'Mapping South Connemara', covering the Cashel, Carna, Cill Chiaráin area, and representing the first 29 Connacht Tribune articles.
All three drafts contain minor handwritten corrections, and instructions for the printer.
Page of handwritten notes with doodles, followed by a typescript draft with annotations of the Preface 'Timescape with Signpost', Itinerary 1, and II 'Excursion'.
Two typescript drafts of Preface 'Timescape with Signpost', with handwritten spelling corrections. Typescript draft of 'Itinerary', and two typescript drafts of 'Excursion'.