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Series 3: Flaws in the glass, 1981

Papers relating to White's autobiography, Flaws in the glass: A self-portrait (1981), including an early manuscript draft with annotations and corrections, and four annotated typescript drafts. There is also a set of uncorrected printer's proofs, a letter from White to Tom Maschler at Jonathan Cape, 1981, with some explanatory notes and corrections by White, and a selection of prints of photographs used in the book.

 

Folder 1 Manuscript draft, n.d.
Handwritten foolscap sections numbered I-VIII (48p each), each section numbered by White except for Section III, which lacks a section cover; various inks, principally blue ballpoints, with some revisions and deletions in red ballpoint; many surface excisions, substitutions and hesitations
Folder 2 Typescript draft (1), n.d.
Carbon copy typescript (260pp); some annotations in red ballpoint
Folder 3 Typescript draft (2), n.d.
Carbon copy typescript (260pp); some annotations in red ballpoint; identical to draft (1)
Folder 4 Typescript draft (3), n.d.
Typescript (260pp); half-spaced with some overtyping; many annotations, primarily in red ballpoint and some in blue ballpoint; grammatical and stylistic changes and reworking of sense and description
Folder 5 Typescript draft (4), n.d.
Carbon copy typescript (3pp + 256pp); including title page; some annotations in red ballpoint; handwritten page (verso of discarded sheet identified as p155) interleaved between pp161-162
Folder 6 Papers relating to Flaws in the glass, including a letter from White to Tom Maschler of Jonathan Cape, 20 March 1981, notes by White and photographs, 1981
Carbon copy typescript letter and notes from White to Tom Maschler (see Patrick White: Letters (1994), p542); 'Own choice of photographs for Flaws in the glass' carbon copy typescript by White; handwritten notes and comments by White, written on the verso of discarded typescript pages; prints of photographs (20) used in the book (also some duplicate prints)
Folder 7 Uncorrected proofs, 11 May 1981
1 set of 'Author's spare set' photocopy page proofs (in 2 oblong clip-bound volumes) with minor late changes, including corrections indicated in the margin and a paragraph excised at p155
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