Paul Scott Collection, 1952-1976.

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Paul Scott Collection, 1952-1976.

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The Paul Scott Collection consists primarily of manuscripts, with a slight amount of correspondence, ranging in date from 1952-1976. The Works series consists of holographs, original and carbon copy typescripts, notes, galleys, page proofs, proof copies, or printer's copies for ten of his major novels: A Male Child (1956), The Mark of the Warrior (1958), The Chinese Love Pavilion (1960), The Birds of Paradise (1962), The Bender (1963), The Corrida at San Felíu (1964), and the four novels that comprise The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown (1966), The Day of the Scorpion (1968), The Towers of Silence (1971), and A Division of the Spoils (1975). Also in the collection is a mimeo/radio script entitled "Sahibs and Memsahibs." Outgoing correspondence is very slight. Incoming correspondence contains letters from literary notables such as Veronica Bamfield, John Braine, Richard Church, James Hanley, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Mary E. Patchett, Alexander Peterson, Sir Herbert Read, Dame Edith Sitwell, C.P. Snow, Muriel Spark, Howard Spring; and from the publishers Eyre & Spottiswood Ltd. and William Morrow and Co. The Miscellaneous series contains publicity material for The Birds of Paradise from the publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., a mimeo/radio script by Donald McWhinnie of Scott's The Mark of the Warrior, and front matter for the galley proofs of The Day of the Scorpion published by William Morrow and Co.

38 boxes (15.8 linear feet), 10 galley folders.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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