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Box 1.B.15

 Container

Contains 72 Results:

"The Loss of El Dorado" Vintage edition book cover draft, 1977-01-14

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 1, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.1.1
Scope and Contents

Sample book cover for V. S. Naipaul's new edition of "The Loss of El Dorado" on cardstock and two transparencies of the artwork for "The Loss of El Dorado" and Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion" sent to V. S. Naipaul from Ivan Holmes with Penguin Books Ltd with a cover letter.

Dates: 1977-01-14

The Marcel Proust Questionnaire , Undated

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 2, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.2.1
Scope and Contents

A list of 37 questions entitled "The Marcel Proust Questionnaire" for V. S. Naipaul to answer. To be published in the German periodical Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazine.

Dates: Undated

Jerusalem Prize abandoned acceptance speech, 1983-04-24

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 3, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.3.1
Scope and Contents

Abandoned handwritten acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize in a yellow notebook.

Dates: 1983-04-24

"Heavy Manners in Grenada" typed manuscript, 1984-03-02

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 4, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.4.1
Scope and Contents

Typed manuscript of V. S. Naipaul's long report about 1983 U.S. action in Grenada, with minor revisions throughout. A note from Gilion Aiten attached.

Dates: 1984-03-02

Abandoned notebook on Muslim Africa, Undated

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 5, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.5.1

Republican National Convention Press Passes, 1984-08-20 - 1984-08-24

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 6, item: 3
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.6.3
Scope and Contents

Fourteen press passes V. S. Naipaul used for the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas in 1984. Press passes used for his article commissioned by the New York Review of Books.

Dates: 1984-08-20 - 1984-08-24

Republican National Convention notes in notepad, Undated

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 9, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.9.1
Scope and Contents

Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and Towers notepad filled with V. S. Naipaul's notes on the Republican National Convention in Dallas.

Dates: Undated

"The Airconditioned Bubble: The Republicans in Dallas" Typed manuscript, Undated

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 11, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.11.1
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy typed manuscript of V. S. Naipaul's article for the New York Review of Books on the Republican National Convention in Dallas.

Dates: Undated

"Prologue to an Autobiography" from "Finding The Centre: Two Narratives" draft in notebook

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 12, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.12.1
Scope and Contents

Handwritten manuscript and notes in a notebook with a pink book cover of V. S. Naipaul's novel "Finding the Centre: Two Narratives."

Dates: 1935 - 2000

"Prologue to an Autobiography" from "Finding The Center" carbon copy typed manuscript

 Item — Box: 1.B.15, Folder: 14, item: 1
Identifier: 1993.001.1.B.15.14.1
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy typed manuscript of "Prologue to an Autobiography" from V. S. Naipaul's novel "Finding the Centre: Two Narratives," with corrections and a lined page of corrections tipped-in.

Dates: 1935 - 2000