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This collection of papers of author
Kathleen Farrell contains datebooks, holograph notebooks, holograph and
typescript drafts and notes, and a small amount of correspondence, mostly from
publishers. |
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The papers are organized in two series: I. Datebooks
and Notebooks and II. Correspondence, notes, and drafts. The datebooks
in Series I. cover the period 1980-1998 and record appointments primarily, with
one small notebook containing telephone numbers. The holograph notebooks, from
the earliest years of her writing career to the year of her death in 1999,
contain novel and short story drafts as well as notes. There are occasional
drafts of correspondence. Many notebooks are untitled and contain multiple
works; some sections contain diary entries dated sequentially. Often the
handwriting is interspersed with shorthand. Many of the notebooks have sections
removed, causing detached textblocks and covers. Care should be taken in
handling these materials. |
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Series II. Correspondence, notes, and drafts
contains largely manuscript drafts and fragments for short stories and the
novel
Limitations of Love. The occasional
correspondence interspersed with the manuscripts includes the BBC, publishers,
and agents. Drafts are often a mixture of typescript and handwritten pages with
corrections. |
