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Austin Clarke fonds. Fourth accrual

Manuscripts

Box 70
Files 1 - 2 When Women Rule (1985). Unedited ts. 254 pp.
Files 2a - 2b When Women Rule. Setting copy. 247 pp.
Files 3 - 12 Untitled collection of short stories, 1982-83 (some of which were incorporated into When Women Rule).
"The Discipline." 4 ts., 37, 37, 23, 35 pp.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, The Cultural Attaché." Ts, 27 pp.
"The Collector." Ts (x) , 27 pp .
"A Slow Death." 3 ts., 31, 32, 23 pp.
"An Invitation to Join." Ts (x) , 24 pp.
"The Funeral of a Political Yard-Fowl." Ts (x) , 14 pp.
"On One Leg." Ts (x) , 23 pp .
"Give It a Shot." Ts (x) , 33 pp.
"Low Primmer at Sin Matthias." Ts (x), incomplete, 36 pp. (including 1 letter).
"In the Semi-Colon of the North." Ts (c) , 15 pp .

Box 71
Files 1 - 2 Untitled collection (cont'd)
"A Christmas Carol." Ts, 28 pp.
"I Remember." Ts, 35 pp .
Files 3 - 10 Untitled collection of short stories (1983). (When Women Rule)
"Doing Right." Ts, 20 pp .
"If Only: Only If ." Ts, 26 pp .
"The Wrong Time." Ts, 23 pp.
"A Man." Ts , 42 pp .
"The Man." Ts, 37 pp.
"The Smell." Ts, 27 pp .
"Coll. SS. Trins. Ap. Toron." Ts (2) 36, 38 pp.
"How He Does It?" Ts, 23 pp.
Files 11- 16 Short stories (NB: Some of these are copies or variant drafts of stories included in the above two collections. As these two collections were so designated by Clarke, it was felt that they should be kept as separate. "books").
"Canadian Experience." Hm , 24 pp.; Ts (2) , 33, 22 pp .
"Canadian Experience." Ts, 15 pp.; prepared for radio performance.
"A Man." Ts , 50 pp .
"A Short Acquaintance." Hm, 16 pp; Ts, 27 pp.; Ts, 22 pp.
"Coll. SS. Trins. Ap. Toron." Ts (2) , 39, 39 pp. (+ 1 letter) .
"A Slow Death." Ts, 24 pp.; Ts (c) , 28 pp. + 2 photocopies.

Box 72
Files 1 - 2 Short stories (cont'd)
"The Discipline." Ts, 23 pp.; Ts, 36 pp. + 2 photocopies, one with revisions.
"The Funeral of a Political Yard Fowl." Ts (x) , 14 pp.
Files 3 - 4 Under the Sandbox Tree. (Part II of Memoirs) . Ts, 410 pp.
File 5 "Nineteen-Fifty-Five. (Excerpt from Under the Sandbox Tree) . Ts, 31 pp.
File 6 "In Low-Primmer at Sin Matthias." Ts, 74 pp. (+ clippings of 5 of 10 parts as published in Pelican).

Box 73
Files 1 - 2 An American Dutchman. Ts (x), 404 pp. (a copy of the original ts in Box 13 of C1arke's first group of papers).
File 3 Excerpt from An American Dutchman. Ts (x), 21 pp.
File 4 Miscellaneous mss.
Files 5 - 6 Articles in the Nation. Various pieces (and clippings) published in the Nation (Barbados) and other papers.
File 7 "Othello - Notes and commentaries & opinioned remarks." Bound notebook.

Box 74
File 1 Notes on Thomas Gray's Original Confessions of Nat Turner. Hm, 29 pp.
File 2 Seminar notes on Richard Wright and Leroi Jones. Hm, 11 pp.
File 3 "What Happened?" A screen-play. Ts (x), 49 pp.

Other Material
File 4 Journal. December 31,1982 - . Bound volume.
File 5 Journal. September 1981 - April 1984. Bound volume.
File 6 Daybook (1982)
File 7 Mss. not by Austin Clarke.

Box 75
Files 1- 3 Student papers and theses on Austin Clarke.
File 4 Miscellaneous (ephemera, etc.).
File 5 Airline tickets.
Restaurant scroll
Unboxed (76a) Binder containing Board of Censors reports on films. (N.B. Embargoed)

Correspondence
Austin Clarke kept separate files for a small number of correspondents. These have been retained. The remaining correspondence is filed alphabetically.
Box 76
A
B
C
Campbell, Janet Elizabeth. (Mostly letters to her, with some from her to A.C.).
Collymore, Frank.
D
E
F
G
H
Harewood, John
Harvard, John Milton
I
J
K
L
(See also Austin Clarke/John Harewood letters Box 87)

Box 77
M
Mailer, Norman
McClelland and Stewart
O
Ober, Harold, Associates
P
R
S
Salkey, Andrew
Selvon, Sam
Sylvester, Michael

Box 78
T
U-V
University of Western Ontario
W
X-Z
Miscellaneous and unidentified correspondence.

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