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Date(s)
- [1950] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
iii, 322 ff. (foliated 1-3, 5-64, 67-280, 294-326 with 12 ff. of insertions; text on rectos only)
Placed in melinex sleeves within two ringed boxes at NLW.
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Archival history
Folios 2, 317 and 319 were purchased in July 2019 among the papers now NLW MS 24135D and have been re-integrated in this volume.
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Scope and content
Carbon copy typescript draft, [1950], of Augustus John's autobiography, published as Chiaroscuro: Fragments of an Autobiography (London: Jonathan Cape, 1952), containing manuscript emendations and deletions by the author, copious in places.
In addition to many minor deletions the text contains several passages omitted from the published version (ff. 35-36, 36-37, 55-56, 74, 75, 137, 188, 192-193, 226, 231-232, 246, 251, 262-263, 273, 320, 323-326). Besides the missing folios there are other substantial passages in the published book (pp. 96-99, 174-175, 274-275) missing from the typescript (see ff. 97, 189, 316). The titles 'Ups and Downs' (typed) and 'Now and Then' (in ink) appear on the title page (f. i), both cancelled. There are also a few editorial annotations in red pencil and blue ink.
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- English
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Folios 4, 65-66, 281-293 missing.
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Title based on contents.
Note
John's address is given on the title page (f. i) as Castello San Peyre, Opio, A[lpes] M[aritime], [France], where he stayed during the Summer of 1950.