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Typescript of the novel Girl waiting in the shade with autograph pencil revision. Paper; ii + 270 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 2.

Autograph second pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell. Several series of foliation numbers by the author provide evidence of expansion and rewriting within this draft. 228 Leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 13.

Typescript with some pencil revision of Rhys Davies's novel, 'Nobody answered the bell', together with preliminary matter for the book. Paper; viii + 193 ff.; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 17.

Autograph fourth pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell, foliated by the author 1-226, many sections are now wanting; some of them to be found incorporated in NLW MS 21543C, ff.154-157 (numbered by author 22-25), seem to represent a draft of the novel coming between NLW MSS 21541 and 21542C. Paper; 157 ff.; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 15.

Carbon copy of NLW MS 21544C with the same pencil revision. Paper; ii + 193 ff.; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 18.

Autograph first pencil draft of the novel Nobody answered the bell (pub. 1971), described by the author in a note on fo. 1 as 'a very rough outline of parts of this novel, used as a preliminary sketch or blueprint'. Paper; i + 97 ff. (autnor's foliation 1-98, fo. 56 wanting) ; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 12.

Autograph third pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell. Paper; 191 ff. (ff. 27-28 of the author's foliation are wanting); unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 14.

Autograph fifth pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell. A note by the author on f. 1 refers to this as the 'final' draft 'for typist'. Paper; 263 ff.; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 16.

Pencil draft of the autobiographical volume Print of a Hare's Foot. Rewritten versions of chapters 1, 2 and 4 (ff. 380-404). Paper; 404 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 5.

Later (third) pencil draft of Rhys Davies's autobiography, Print of a Hare's Foot. Paper; 343 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 7.

Another carbon copy of NLW MS 2l535C with the author's revision, together with the preliminary matter of the volume, omitting the chapter 'Country'. Paper; vi + 272 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 10.

Carbon copy of NLW MS 2l535C, typescript of Rhys Davies's autobiography, 'Print of hare's foot'. On f. 1 is a note by the author explaining that this was the first corrected typescript, i.e., the revision in NLW MSS 2l535C and 21537C was copied from this MS. Paper; iii + 286 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 9.

Later pencil draft of Print of a Hare's Foot. Foliated by the author 1-292 but reduced by the removal of leaves to a later draft (NLW MS 21534C) where some of them survive; others after removal were apparently rewritten for MS 7 and no longer survive. Paper; 258 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 6.

Typescript of Rhys Davies's autobiography, 'Print of hare's foot', with slight revision partly in the author's hand and partly in another, all deriving from the revision first made in NLW MS 21536C. Includes a final chapter 'Country' that was omitted in the book. Paper; ii + 286 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 8.

Advance proof copy in wrappers of Rhys Davies's autobiography, 'Print of hare's foot', with author's pencil corrections. Paper; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 11.

Autograph and typescript drafts of stories collected in the volume The Chosen One (1967): typescript of 'The Chosen One' with slight pencil revision (ff 1-45); printed version of 'The Chosen One' taken from The New Yorker with slight revision not in the author's hand, mainly to remove Americanisms (ff. 46-61); letter to Rhys Davies from The New Yorker, 1967, concerning the following item (f. 62); typescript of 'The Little Heiress' with slight pencil revision (ff. 63-88); galley proofs of 'The Little Heiress' with slight pencil revision (ff. 89-110); letter to Rhys Davies from The New Yorker, 1967, concerning the following item (f. 111); typescript with slight pencil revision of 'I will keep her company' (originally published under the title 'The company he kept') (ff. 112-142); typescript of 'Betty Leyshon's Marathon' with many sections rewritten in pencil (ff. 143-186); pencil draft of 'The Shriving of Gwenny Treharne' with the title 'A Turning point in Gwenny's life' (ff. 187-293); typescript of the preceding (ff. 294-335); pencil draft of a later version of 'The Shriving of Gwenny Treharne' with the title 'Evensong' (ff. 336-399); typescript of a later version than the preceding, with the title 'Evensong' (ff. 400-437); final typescript of 'The Shriving of Gwenny Treharne' with slight pencil revision (ff. 438-479); typescript with slight pencil revision of 'Love kept waiting' (ff. 480-505); typescript of the preliminary matter of the volume (ff. 506-511); publisher's queries arising from the typescript of the collection, with the author's replies (ff. 512-516). Unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 3.

Page proofs of The Chosen One with the author's corrections in pencil. Paper; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 4.

Typescript of a short story The Walled City. On f. 1 is a pencilled note by the author: 'Discarded version of short story later extended into a novel (Girl waiting in the shade)'. Girl waiting in the shade was published in 1960. Paper; 46 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 1.

The file comprises letters, 1938, relating to Rhys Davies's research on Jorgen Jorgensen who arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1826, including typescript notes extracted from newspapers and documents held at the Premier's Office, Hobart, together with an incomplete account 'Iceland on a plate' by him about the adventurer [?published in The Tribune, January 1942] and a press cutting from The Tribune, January 1942, ?with the next chapter to this account entitled 'King Jorgen in decline'.

The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts, [1927x1978], of short stories by Rhys Davies, some bearing the sticker of his literary agent Curtis Brown Ltd.