Early typescript draft of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs. Handwritten comments on the manuscript by Etienne Rynne.
Corrected draft of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs. Spellings errors and grammar corrected in ink. Some pieces of text have been cut and pasted in to the manuscript, adding new wording. Three copies of a hand-drawn Location Map are included.
Corrected typescript text of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs and maps.
Mockup of the final manuscript including photographs and maps. Paper with text has been glued to pages, and there are notes in the margin with details on font and margin sizes.
Mockups of the intended layout of Mementos of Mortality, specifying margin sizes, font, and including draft maps. Lists of estimated costs.
Four mockups of the book jacket, with different tonal arrangements.
Material relating to the commissioning and publication of J M Synge's 'The Aran Islands' by Penguin Classics. Tim Robinson wrote an introduction and notes on the piece.
Print out from microfilm (and roll of microfilm) of 'The Aran Islands: by J M Synge, with drawings by Jack B Yeats' (1907).
Also included are the reprographics slips from Trinity College Library's Department of Early Printed Books who provided the print out.
Tim Robinson's handwritten notes on J M Synge's time in Aran. Notes taken from a reading of Robert Skelton's 'J M Synge and his World'. Notes on Synge's usage of marriage themes, the Celtic Twilight, on his notebook, the subjects not covered by Synge in his work, and on Synge as a man island. Some examples of Robinson's immediately recognisable doodles framing some pages.
Typed draft of "Person/Place/Book, Synge's The Aran Islands" with handwritten notes and annotations.