RB/1/B - Box RB/1/B
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RB/1/B
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File
Title
Box RB/1/B
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1 box Mixed
Scope and content
RB/1/B
NOBLE DESIRES. Pt 1. SECURITY MAN
Note from RB ‘Unpublished novel 3, Part 1, 1992-3’. TS with corrections.
NOBLE DESIRES. Pt 2. FACTOR
Note from RB ‘Unpublished novel 3 1992/3’. TS with corrections.
NOBLE DESIRES. Pt 3. RETAINER
Note from RB ‘Unpublished novel 3, Part 3 1992/3’. TS with corrections.
Early short stories (folder)
TS and MS all prior to RB’s attendance on the MA course. Also contains press cuttings from TLS 1993 on French literature.
Unpublished stories, 1989-1994 (plastic wallet)
Includes ‘Common agent’, ‘Numbers’, ‘Extra time’, ‘Personal foul’, ‘Breaking the rules’, ‘Serve somebody’.
Unpublished stories, 1989-1997 (plastic wallet)
Includes ‘Art for art’s sake’, ‘It hardly matters’, In the maid’s room’, Good fortune’.
LEARNING CURVES short story
TS and rejection note from Mayfair (magazine?). Note from RB states that it was translated and broadcast on the French radio channel, France Culture in 1995.
GENEVA, 1978 short story
TS with corrections.
Rejection letters, 1989-2000 (folder)
From publishers and agents prior to RB’s attendance on the MA course. Dates early-mid 1990s (some 2000 – post MA – rejections for teaching posts).
Personal correspondence – with friend John Lee – now a Professor, 1991
Contains 11 items/letters, 1991.
Miss Almedingen’s House/ Royal Society of Literature
File of correspondence and photographs concerning an 18th century cottage in the Mendip Hills, Somerset ‘Miss Almedingen’s House’. RB lived there for a time in 1998– rented from RSL.
University dissertation on Oscar Wilde, 1988-2000
TS with corrections; and three reference letters, 2000.
NOBLE DESIRES. Pt 1. SECURITY MAN
Note from RB ‘Unpublished novel 3, Part 1, 1992-3’. TS with corrections.
NOBLE DESIRES. Pt 2. FACTOR
Note from RB ‘Unpublished novel 3 1992/3’. TS with corrections.
NOBLE DESIRES. Pt 3. RETAINER
Note from RB ‘Unpublished novel 3, Part 3 1992/3’. TS with corrections.
Early short stories (folder)
TS and MS all prior to RB’s attendance on the MA course. Also contains press cuttings from TLS 1993 on French literature.
Unpublished stories, 1989-1994 (plastic wallet)
Includes ‘Common agent’, ‘Numbers’, ‘Extra time’, ‘Personal foul’, ‘Breaking the rules’, ‘Serve somebody’.
Unpublished stories, 1989-1997 (plastic wallet)
Includes ‘Art for art’s sake’, ‘It hardly matters’, In the maid’s room’, Good fortune’.
LEARNING CURVES short story
TS and rejection note from Mayfair (magazine?). Note from RB states that it was translated and broadcast on the French radio channel, France Culture in 1995.
GENEVA, 1978 short story
TS with corrections.
Rejection letters, 1989-2000 (folder)
From publishers and agents prior to RB’s attendance on the MA course. Dates early-mid 1990s (some 2000 – post MA – rejections for teaching posts).
Personal correspondence – with friend John Lee – now a Professor, 1991
Contains 11 items/letters, 1991.
Miss Almedingen’s House/ Royal Society of Literature
File of correspondence and photographs concerning an 18th century cottage in the Mendip Hills, Somerset ‘Miss Almedingen’s House’. RB lived there for a time in 1998– rented from RSL.
University dissertation on Oscar Wilde, 1988-2000
TS with corrections; and three reference letters, 2000.
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