Manuscripts

Scope and Contents The collection includes a number of Gathorne-Hardy notebooks, manuscripts, and correspondence. The notebooks in Series I span from his early writing career to late 1968 and include notes, research, and drafts of his works. Of interest is Gathorne-Hardy's peculiar habit to reverse the notebooks and write from back to front. His notebooks exhibit his disjointed thought process, often beginning an entry mid-sentence.Writings in Series II include typescripts for ...

Scope and Contents In Series I, researchers will find early trypescript drafts, notes, page proofs, and book arts pertaining to Books 1-24 in the Liaden series. While original drafts for the first three novels in series are not included in this collection, researchers can still find early story notes for subsequent novels written from 1999-2017. Additional notes and drafts for Liaden novels published after 2017 can be found in Addendum I along with material pertaining to reprints of earlier novels. Sub-Series...

Scope and Contents The Tim Pratt papers encompass the early authorial works of Tim Pratt, current Senior Editor of Locus. Series I is devoted to Spell Games (2009), book 4 in the Marla Mason series, and includes an early manuscript, copyedits, and page proofs. Series II contains the bulk of the collection. In Sub-Series A researchers will find early handwritten drafts of short fiction and poetry, some of which was never published. A draft of his first...