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Large trunk containing JWD’s filing trays, containing: Original typescript of ‘The Serial Universe’; two autograph drafts (in narrative and dramatic form) of ‘The Jumping Lions of Borneo’; together with correspondence with A.P. Watt and Faber & Faber (Richard de la Mare) regarding its publication, related press cuttings and ‘fan mail’, 1937; autograph draft of Dunne’s children’s story ‘St George and the Witches’ (including two notebooks), and carbon-copy typescript; typescripts of odd chapters of ‘An Experiment With Time’ including appendix to fourth edition; typescript of privately distributed article ‘The Only Way Out’ (24 February 1936) and related correspondence (including with Faber); correspondence with Dunne’s agents A.P. Watt and various publishers about several works including articles and ‘St George and the Witches’, 1938; correspondence with the natural philosopher Professor Herbert Dingle and the editors of the Observer and Nature (including copy letters by Dunne) regarding Dingle’s review of ‘The Serial Universe’, 1936; general correspondence regarding ‘An Experiment With Time’ and ‘The New Immortality’, including a letter by J.B. Priestley (2 June 1937, with copy of Dunne’s reply) and another by Rudyard Kipling (1 January 1935); correspondence relating to a BBC television programme, 7 December 1937, including script; other correspondence about telepathy (with J.R.M. Vaughan), determinism, Freud, serialism etc.; letters and press cuttings relating to Dunne’s lectures and articles on dreams and telepathy, 1930s; several folders of autograph formulae and drafts, with comments and headings in red pencil, e.g. ‘Atomicity Solution’ and ‘Intuitive Knowledge of Space and Time’, 1933-36; two envelopes relating to World War I containing letters from Dunne’s mother and recommendations for employment; group of material relating to World War II including a copy of a letter to Colonel Ramsden regarding bacterial warfare (1939), a typescript by Dunne of ‘Suggestions relating to Transportable Road Blocks’, and printed material including Instructions to Local Defence Volunteers; personal accounts including trustees and executorship accounts, 1937-8; together with some miscellaneous material (e.g. correspondence about drawing supplies, etc.)

J W Dunne Archive: Large trunk containing JWD’s filing trays, containing: Original typescript of ‘The Serial Universe’

1930-1939

Collection of ephemeral items relating to the Manchester music scene 1978-1986: 1. Hacienda Newsletter No.6; 2. Contact sheet of three photos of Manchester punk band The Worst, taken by Jon Savage, January 1978; 3. Original 10x8 print of Howard Devoto of Magazine performing I Love You, You Big Dummy at Magazine's first gig at the Last Night of the Electric Circus, taken by Jon Savage, October 1977; 4. Photocopy taken from a letter written by Tony Wilson to Malcolm McLaren about the Sex Pistols' non appearance on So It Goes, late summer 1977; 5. Programme for The Different Kitchen exhibition at the Cornerhouse, July 1986, which exhibited commercial art created by Peter Saville, Malcolm Garrett, Jon Savage, Trevor Johnson, Richard Boon, Linder and others between 1976 & 1986. The programme provides biographical information about the exhibitors; 6. Nine issues of City Fun, two with covers designed by Jon Savage. City Fun documented and informed the music scene in Manchester in the late 70s and early 80s 7. Boxed set of postcards reproducing early Factory posters and publicity shots, issued in 1986; 8. FAC145 Christmas card sent by Alan Erasmus to Jon Savage, signed by Erasmus; 9. Jon Savage's credit card style Hacienda membership card; 10. Two copies of Girl Trouble, Paul Morley's fanzine about the Manchester music scene in the late 1970s. These copies contain contributions from Jon Savage and Richard Boon (Buzzcocks manager and head of New Hormones record label - the first independent punk record label, started in Manchester); 11. Poster for The Different Kitchen exhibition at the Cornerhouse, July 1986; 12. Original compilation cassettes for the Joy Division Heart & Soul CD release and a first edition of the box set still in its shrink-wrap; 13. Artwork for a flyer for a gig that never happened, featuring The Worst, signed by Jon Savage.

Collection of ephemeral items relating to the Manchester music scene 1978-1986

1978-1986