Department of Special Collections and University Archives
McFarlin Library.  University of Tulsa.  2933 E.  6th St.  Tulsa, OK.  74104-3123 (OKT - OkTU)

David Plante papers

Collection   1981-007

Dates:   1963-1982.

Extent:   (17 boxes).

Level of Description:  Item level.

Name of creator(s):  David Plante.

Date of creation:  Undetermined.

Scope and Content:    Consist of handwritten, typed, carbon copy typed and photocopied typescripts, galley proofs and page notes, of short stories, television scripts, and novels including The Family and The Woods (2 novels in the trilogy, The Francoeur Novels) and one segment, “Jean" in Difficult Women; also included are handwritten notes and typescripts from Plante’s collaboration with Jean Rhys for Smile Please, 2 manuscript notebooks, 67 carbon copy typescript reader’s reports submitted by Plante (each including a standard publisher’s cover letter to Plante), and a photocopied typescript of the article, “Jean Rhys and Her Autobiography," by Diana Athill.

Administrative/Biographical History: 

Access and Copyright:

Language and Scripts:  English.

Finding aid/Inventory:  Finding aid is online.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition:   Purchased from Bertram Rota Ltd., 1981.

Date(s) of description:   Milissa Burkart, Jun 1992.

Access Points:

Subject Headings 

 
Personal names 

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Inventory

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Carbon copy typed synopsis of a script adaptation for BBC Television, written by Stephen Spender, 1p.

Carbon copy typed script adaptation by David Plante and Stephen Spender in three versions, 27p.

Typescript with handwritten revisions, 31p.

Photocopy of previous typescript with handwritten revisions and inserts to text, 31p.

Typed fragment [of an earlier version] with handwritten revisions, 12p.

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Handwritten and signed draft edited by David Plante, Nikos Stangos, and Stephen Spender, originally entitled, “The Xascent Awakening," with handwritten revisions author’s notes; dated May 2, 1967, 295p.

Handwritten fragments originally found within a later draft dated July 1966, 19p.

Typescript with handwritten revisions, numbered p1-43, 43-180; c1963-1964.  Handwritten draft of a letter, [David Plante] to William Abrahams of the Atlantic Press, Aug 14, 1967, 1s; another typed  version, 1s.

Handwritten author’s notes pertaining to the development of both story and characters, 4p.

Carbon copy typescript of previous typescript with similar handwritten revisions.  c1963-1964.

Carbon copy typescript, another copy, with further handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text, 184p; handwritten note [by Nikos Stangos or Stephen Spender?] pertaining to pages 60-61, 71-72, tipped in at p60.

Additional typed and carbon copy typed copies of p143-148.

Photocopied typescript of Chpt I-XIII, p25-92; continues with Chpt I-VI, p93-126.  Title page reads: “Worked on, under a pine tree in [Med---ja], Yugoslavia, by Nikos Stangos and David--- July, 1966." 

Typescript of previous photocopied typescript with handwritten revisions, Chpt I-XIII, p25-92; handwritten author’s note pertaining to chapter replacement, plot development, etc., 1p.

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Short story in four versions:

Handwritten draft with handwritten revisions, 18p.

Typescript with handwritten revisions, alternately entitled, “Hunter and George," “Two Brothers," and “His Brother," 12p.

Revised carbon copy typescript, 13p.

Typescript of previous carbon copy typescript with further handwritten revisions, 13p.

Carbon copy typescript with handwritten revisions marked as being the final version, 9p.

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Handwritten and incomplete draft of an unpublished short story, 37p.

Typescript with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text, 22p.

Carbon copy typescript, another version, 14p.

Typescript [of an unpublished short story] with handwritten revisions, pi, 1-7, 7, 8-19.

Handwritten and carbon copy typescript of a proposed [novel] with handwritten revisions inserts to text; marked as being a third draft.  Feb 1975, 240p.

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Preliminary notes for a novel, 107p handwritten, 7p photocopied typescript.

Handwritten draft, some pages typed or carbon copy typed, with handwritten revisions, alternately entitled, “Marion," or “Shape" and marked as being a first draft dated Oct 1972.

Handwritten author’s notes pertaining to plot and character development, corrections, etc, 7p. 

Carbon copy typescript with handwritten revisions, numbered p1-38, 38a, 39-46, 46a, 47-95, 95a, 96-161.

Set of page proofs with handwritten and signed card,  Penguin Books Ltd.  to David Plante.

Handwritten draft of the section entitled, “Jean," with handwritten revisions and inserts to text, 47p.

Handwritten draft [fragment] David Plante to Diana [Athill]: “Thank you for your generous letter.  I am a bit like Jean in relation to the business of publishing...."   1s.

Handwritten draft of a proposed novel in a spiral notebook, with typed and handwritten text pasted or tipped in, all with handwritten revisions.  Section I-XVII, 139p.

Interspersed within the above spiral notebook are 4 paper pocket folders:

Pocket 1: handwritten list of alternative titles: “Ernest Hemingway’s Sense of Space," “Ernest Hemingway’s Space," “Ernest Hemingway’s Black Space," “Ernest Hemingway’s Black Woman," “Ernest Hemingway’s Bright Country," “Ernest Hemingway’s Bright Space," “The World Beyond Ernest Hemingway" (marked through), and “The Bright Space of Ernest Hemingway" (marked through).

Handwritten fragments, 12p.

Incomplete typescript with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text, alternately entitled, “Hemingway’s Bright Room," Hemingway’s Bright Country," Ernest Hemingway’s Bright Room," 27p.

Pocket 2: Continued from Pocket 1, 34p.
Pocket 3: Continued from Pocket 2, 35p.
Pocket 4: Continued from Pocket 3, 10p including photocopy of a section entitled, “The Accident."   (See also Slides)

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First novel in the trilogy, The Francoeur Novels.  Handwritten draft in three manuscript notebooks.  Portions of draft text that correspond to sections of the published version have been noted whenever possible.  The page number of the published text appears in [ ] on the upper right hand corner of the corresponding manuscript page.

Handwritten draft with handwritten revisions [Chpt I-III]; handwritten and typed text and 2 souvenir post cards (Museum of Natural History, Roger Williams Park, Providence, Rhode Island) tipped in. 

Marked as being the original manuscript, and entitled, “The Parish."    Handwritten text, a souvenir postcard of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and a carbon copy draft of the poem, “I Lament Eileen," by Rene Plante, tipped in.

Handwritten page notes for corrections and revisions, 18p.

Handwritten draft continued in a manuscript notebook with handwritten text tipped in.

Typescript with handwritten revisions and typed text pasted in and marked as being the first typescript, p1-196; c1976.

p197-354.

p355-502.

Photocopied typescript alternately entitled “The House," with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text, p1- 175.

p176-399, 399a-n.

p470-587.

Photocopied typescript, typescript, and carbon copy typescript, alternately entitled, “The Parish," with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text; some duplicate pages occur in 2 or more versions apiece and are placed in ( ).  Pages renumbered pi-iii, 1-(8), 9-24a, 24b, 25-30a, 30b, 31-43, 45-57, 55, 59- 70, 68, 72-87, [87a], 88-104, [104a], 106-115, [115a-b], 117-150.

p151-152, [152a], 154-167, [167a-c], 168-202, (200-201), 203, 205, 207-221, [221a], 22-223, [223a], 225-227, (227), 228-285.

286, 293, (293), 295, (295), 296-353, (352-353), 354-375, (375), 376-387, [387a], 388, 390- 391, [(390)], [391a], 392, 393-397, (397), [397a], [(397a)], 398-401.

Page proofs, copy edited by Catherine Carver (Victor Gollancz Ltd.), with typed and signed note Carver to David Plante.  Undated.

Photocopied typescript of a short story with handwritten revisions, pi, 1-23.

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Carbon copy typed novel with handwritten revisions, pi-ii, 1-39.  Change of address card for Keith Milow found tipped into manuscript.

Revised typescript of previous carbon copy with further handwritten revisions, editor’s and printer’s marks and revised text tipped in.  pi-ii, 1-138.

Typed mock-up of preliminary pages, 4p.

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Short story in six versions: handwritten draft entitled, “The Opaque Window," with handwritten revisions and author’s notes tipped in, 11p.

Handwritten draft, untitled, 8p.

Handwritten draft entitled, “The Fountain Tree," with handwritten revisions, 23p.

Typed draft entitled, “The Opening," with handwritten revisions, 15p.

Carbon copy typescript of previous typescript with further handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text including handwritten re-write of the opening paragraph of last page, 17p.

Typescript with handwritten revisions, 13p.

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Handwritten draft, with some pages typed and carbon copy typed, with handwritten revisions, alternately entitled, “The World Above Henry James," “Henry James Floating," “The Secret of Henry James," and marked as being the first draft dated Feb 11, 1969, 277p.

Handwritten note on title page: “to the accompaniment of Bartok’s percussion, strings, and celesta." 

Carbon copy typed working draft.  Pages are not in a chronological sequence and remain in the order in which they were found, 285p.

Carbon copy typescript with handwritten revisions, pi-iii, 1-28, 30-52, 52a, 53-79, 81-82, 80-188, 188a-b, 189-190, 191-250, (250).

Typescript of previous carbon copy with handwritten revisions [by the editor(s)], pi-vii, p1-253.

Handwritten, typed, and carbon copy typed fragments of sections deleted or rewritten, 213p.

Galley proofs with handwritten revisions and editor’s notes.

Carbon copy typed publicity blurb by Stephen Spender, 1p.

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Photocopied typescript of an unpublished short story by Alexandros Papadiamantis, translated from the Greek by David Plante, with handwritten revisions, 14p.  The Greek version of the story was [originally published in Panathenea Vol.  4, Jan 15, 1902.]

Typescript of previous carbon copy with further handwritten revisions, 14p.

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Handwritten author’s preliminary notes for a [short story] with handwritten revisions, 36p.

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Handwritten [incomplete] draft of a children’s story, 23p.

Four proposed color illustrations by writer and illustrator, Mary Bogan.

1 copy of Frank and Julie and the Secret Seasons written and illustrated by Mary Bogan.

Handwritten, typed and photocopied typed film adaptation by David Plante and [F—cesca Zeissel] of a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with handwritten revisions, pi, 1-9, 12-42, [42a], 43-62.

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Typed short story with 1p typed alternative ending, 27p; handwritten on title page indicates that “Albert" should be cut and that the piece is “not part of the novel." 

Photocopy of a typescript with handwritten revisions; inscribed by David Plante “To Tom and Muffie [Staley] with many huge thanks, from David.  April, 1979 Tulsa."   (Gift of Thomas Staley)

Carbon copy typescript of previous typescript with handwritten revisions, handwritten and typed inserts to text, and 1p carbon copy typed alternative ending, 31p.

(See also Manuscript notebook 1)

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Typed and handwritten draft of an unpublished short story with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text; alternately entitled, “The Transcendentalist," “An Orange, A Man, A Pipe Joint," 33p.

Typescript of another version, with handwritten revisions, 24p.

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Typescript of an unpublished short story with handwritten revisions, 24p.

Typescript of another version, with handwritten revisions, 37p.

Typescript of an unpublished short story with handwritten revisions, 3p.

Revised typescript with father handwritten revisions, 4p.

Carbon copy typed short story with handwritten revisions, pi, 1-5, 5 1/2, 6-8.

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Short story in five versions: handwritten draft entitled, “Love," with handwritten revisions and dated Sept 1966, 15p.

Typescript with 2p carbon copy typed from a later version tipped in, 17p.

Carbon copy typescript of previous typescript with handwritten revisions, originally entitled, “A Cuban In Boston," 15p.

Carbon copy typescript [of published version] with handwritten revisions entitled, “The Crack," dated Sept 1966, 13p.

Typescript with handwritten revisions, 13p.

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Handwritten and carbon copy typed author’s preliminary notes to a novel, 156p.

Handwritten and photocopied handwritten draft with handwritten revisions, alternately entitled, “Anemomazomata," dated June 1971, 411p.

Handwritten author’s notes and a list of the dates of chapter completions, 1p.

Typed, carbon copy typed, and photocopied typed drafts with handwritten inserts to text, all intermingled and in various stages of revision.  Pages are not in sequence; some pages are either missing or have been deleted, 308p.

Typescript with handwritten revisions, another version, 275p.

Page proofs with handwritten revisions and handwritten text tipped in.

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Handwritten, typed and carbon copy typed draft of a proposed novel with handwritten revisions, alternately entitled, “Distant Lives," “Distant People," “The Lives of Distant People," dated Aug 1974 with and handwritten note: “To my love on/his birthday/November 21, 1974." 

Preface, 120p.

Part One, 105p.  (Pages remain in the order in which they were found)

Part Two, 162p.

Handwritten, typed and carbon copy typed draft, [another version] of Chpt 1, 24p.

Chpt 2, 28p.
Chpt 3, 19p.
Chpt 4, 18p.
Chpt 5, 17p.
Chpt 6, 18p.
Chpt 7, 16p.
Chpt 8, 19p.
Chpt 9, 32p.
Chpt 10, 25p.
Chpt 11, 83p.

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Handwritten draft background information on the US Civil War for a film script adaptation [original work/author unknown], alternately entitled “Transformation," 8p.

Handwritten draft with handwritten revisions, pi, 1-20, 20a-b, 21-38.

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Unpublished short story in four versions: handwritten draft with typed text taped in, 11p.

Carbon copy typescript similar to previous draft, 12p.

Typescript of previous carbon copy with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text, 15p.

Carbon copy typescript, 9p.

Typescript of previous carbon copy with handwritten revisions, 9p.

Carbon copy typescript incorporating some revisions from previous draft with further handwritten revisions, 11p.

Typescript, a longer version divided into 7 chapters, title page marked as “Part One," 31p.

Typescript with handwritten revisions, 22p.

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Handwritten author’s preliminary notes pertaining to the characters, plot, etc., for a novel; written on 12 note cards.

Handwritten title page; handwritten notes on the proposed development of the characters and a diagram, on verso, of the inter-relationships between them, 1p.

Handwritten, typed and photocopied typescripts dated Mar 22, 1968.  Portions of draft text that correspond to sections of the published version have been noted whenever possible.  The page
number of the published text appears in [ ] on the upper right hand corner of the corresponding manuscript page.

Unidentified handwritten fragments, 239p.

Typed and handwritten working draft dated July 1968, with handwritten revisions entitled, “Shifting Landscapes."   Chpt 1-3, 9, 12, 16-17, 19, 25, 31, 35, 38, 40, 44-46, 48, 50,
53, 57, 59, 67.

Unidentified and/or unused typed fragments, 185p.

Handwritten and typed version dated Aug 1969, with handwritten revisions.  Chpt 1-2, 6, 9, 12-15, 17-20, 22-25, 29, 31-33, 35-36.

Unidentified and/or unused handwritten and typed fragments, 36p.

90p; handwritten note pertaining to “additional scenes," 1p.

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Typed, carbon copy, and handwritten fragments with handwritten revisions of [discarded text,] 108p.

Typescript dated Nov 1969, with handwritten revisions and marked as being the last draft.  Stories remain in the order in which they were found but do not follow the order in which they were published; pages are numbered 1-154 with an additional story (“Part III"), 7p.

Carbon copy of previous typescript with further handwritten revisions.  Pages renumbered 1-163.

Handwritten draft with handwritten revisions of [an unused story], 5p.

Handwritten author’s notes pertaining to Part III, 9p.

Unused carbon copy typed fragments with handwritten revisions, p52-55, 67, 89, 90, 98-99.

Carbon copy and typed draft dated Mar 1970, with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text and marked as being the last draft; included are additional handwritten draft fragments of alternative erosions.  Pages are numbered but are out f chronological sequence; they remain in the order in which they were found, 363p.

Carbon copy typed and typed draft dated Mar 1970 and originally included with the previous carbon copy.  Entitled, “Shifting Landscapes," originally in a folder marked “Sections missing from Stephen’s version," 32p.

Galley proofs with handwritten revisions plus another set, with printer’s and editor’s marks.

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Series of handwritten notes, some with typed transcriptions and handwritten revisions in both Jean Rhys's and David Plante’s hand.  Portions of draft text that correspond to sections of the published version have been noted whenever possible.  The page number of the published text appears in [ ] on the upper right hand corner of the corresponding manuscript page.  The material remains in the order in which it was found, 35p.

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73p.
60p.  Includes typed fragment with handwritten revisions by Jean Rhys and dated 6-12-38.  Karen Huber, University of Wyoming, suggests that this material may relate to similar text in Jean Rhys's Black Exercise Book.
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51p.
53p.
33p.
60p.
47p.

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Handwritten short story entitled, “Mind," and dated Sept 1966, 6p.

Carbon copy typed entitled “The Dense Trees," 6p, with 5p handwritten fragments and notes.

Typescript of previous carbon copy typescript with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text, 11p.

Carbon copy typescript incorporating revisions from previous draft with further handwritten revisions, 11p.

Incomplete typescript of previous carbon copy with further handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text, 14p.

Carbon copy typescript incorporating revisions from previous draft, 9p.

Typescript of previous carbon copy with further handwritten revisions and inserts to text, 10p; typed author’s notes, 1p.

Typescript similar to previous typescript with further handwritten revisions and entitled, “The Tangled Center," 9p.

Carbon copy typescript of [final] version, 9p.

Handwritten working draft of an unpublished short story, 34p.

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Handwritten draft of a 50 minute television drama with handwritten revisions, alternately entitled, “The Apotheosis," “Apparition," and “Homage to O.  D," 50p; includes 1p each of an additional version of pages 29, 30, 32. 

Typescript, another version, 26p.

Carbon copy of previous typescript with handwritten revisions, 26p.

Typescript of an unpublished short story with handwritten revisions, written by [C.  Taktisis] and translated from the Greek by David Plante, 3p.

Carbon copy typescript, another version, with handwritten revisions; p2-6.

Handwritten working draft fragment of an unpublished short story, 5p.

Handwritten working draft, another version, with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text, 37p.

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Second novel of the trilogy, The Francoeur Novels.  Handwritten draft (start date Jun 1977)with handwritten revisions and handwritten and typed text pasted or tipped into a spiral notebook. 

Photocopy with handwritten revisions and handwritten and typed inserts to text; alternately entitled, “Reflection," and “The Lake," 182p.

Handwritten and photocopied typescript fragments with handwritten revisions, 14p.

Typed and carbon copy typed [second] draft with handwritten revisions and 4p handwritten author’s notes on the plot and the relationship between the characters, 167p.

Carbon copy typescript dated Dec 1978 and divided into 5 parts (“The Mirror," “The Body," “The War," “The Woods," and “The Statue"), alternately entitled, “The Body in the Woods," or “The Body."   Contains handwritten revisions similar to previous draft with further handwritten revisions and handwritten additions to text, 36p.

Carbon copy typescript entitled, “The Reflection," deleted from previous draft, 19p.

Handwritten and carbon copy typed draft entitled, “The Body," with handwritten revisions, 51p.

Typed deleted pages, 19p.

Carbon copy typed and handwritten draft entitled, “The War," with handwritten revisions, 50p; typed and carbon copy typed deleted pages, 16p.

Handwritten and carbon copy typed draft entitled, “The Woods," with handwritten revisions, 36p; typed draft deleted, 28p.

Handwritten draft entitled, “The Statue," with handwritten revisions, 23p.

Photocopied typed, typed, and handwritten draft in 5 chapters, dated Feb 7, 1979 and marked as being the last draft, with handwritten revisions and handwritten inserts to text.

Chpt 1, 26p.

Chpt 2, handwritten and photocopied typescript, 35p.

Chpt 3, handwritten author’s notes 12p; additional handwritten and photocopied typed unidentified drafts, 9p; handwritten draft, 32p.

Chpt 4, handwritten list of corrections, 1p; handwritten draft, 24p.

Chpt 5, handwritten, typed and  photocopy typed, 44p.

(See also Manuscript notebooks)

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Manuscript notebook 1.  c1978.  Contains handwritten drafts fragments of “The Body," “The Mother," “The War," and “The Woods," with 13p handwritten draft tipped in.

Manuscript notebook 2.  c1978.  Contains handwritten draft of “The Secret" or “The Lake" or “The Reflection."  

Photocopy of memorandum of an agreement between [David Plante and Wildwood House Ltd], undated, 3p.

Photocopy of the article, “Fiction Publishing: A New Proposal," by Oliver Caldecott (founder and one of two managing directors of Wildwood House Ltd), The Bookseller, Feb 3, 1973.

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Atwood, Margaret.  Surfacing.  Andre Deutsch.  (See also carbon copy typed list of David Plante’s suggested dust jacket designs)

Baker, Elliott.  Pocock and Pitt.  (See Ginzburg, Natalia for cover letter)

Belben, Rosalind.  Rueben, Little Hero.  Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd.

Berryman, John.  Recovery.  [Farrar, Straus and Giroux.] No cover letter.

Bramble, Forbes.  Stone.  Hamish Hamilton Ltd.  (See also carbon copy typed list of David Plante’s suggested dust jacket designs)

Brooke, Dinah.  Lord Jim at Home.  Andre Deutsch.

Buchanan, George.  Naked Reason.  Holt, Rineholt and Winston.  No cover letter.

Bukowski, Charles.  Erections, Ejaculation, Etc.  Heinrich Hanau Publications Ltd.  4 cover letters.

Busch, Frederick.  Breathing Trouble.  Calder and Boyars.  No cover letter.

Coyle, Barry.  Cat and Glove.  Eyre Methuen Ltd. 

Cooke, Christopher.  The Chaise Longue.  [Publisher?].  No cover letter.

Cooke, Christopher.  The Mad Mary.  [Publisher?].

de Montherplant, Henri.  The Boys.  Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd.

DeLillio, Don.  Americana.  [Houghton Mifflin].  No cover letter.

DeLillio, Don.  Great Jones Street.  Andre Deutsch Ltd. 

Douassot, Jean.  La Gana.   [Calder and Boyars], 2p.

Ellis, Mark.  Bannerma.  Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd.  2 cover letters.  (See also carbon copy typed list of David Plante’s suggested dust jacket designs)

Engle, Marian.  One Way Street.  Hamish Hamilton Ltd.  Reader’s report is in the form of a carbon copy typed letter.

Enquist, Per Olov.  The Extradition.  Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.  The Short Summer of Anarchy.  Rapp and Whiting Ltd.  No report, cover letter only.

Fernau, ---.  Springtime in Florence.  (Ein Fruehling in Florenz).  No report, cover letter only.

Fleetwood, Hugh.  The Girl Who Passed for Normal.  Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Frederickson, Edna.  Three Parts Earth.  Milton House.

Gandolfi, Simon.  The 100 Kilo Club.  [Publisher?].  No cover letter.

Ginzburg, Natalia.  Caro Michele.  Michael Joseph Ltd.

Gonick, Francine Rose.  Judah the Pious.  Chatto and Windus Ltd.

Gordon, Giles.  Girl With Red Hair.  Hutchison.  No cover letter.

Handke, Peter.  The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick.  Associated Book Publishers. 

Hanrahan, Barbara.  Sea Green.  [Publisher?].  No cover letter.

Haring, Firth.  Coming of Age.  [Publisher?] No cover letter.

Harris, Macdonald.  Bullfire..  Victor Gollancz Ltd.

Harrison, Jim.  Wolf.  Simon and Schuster.  No cover letter.

Hodgson, Simon.  Peacetime.  Macdonald and Janes Publishers Ltd.

[Kohout, Pavel].  Weissbuch.  Heinrich Hanau Publications Ltd.  No report, cover letter only.

Kroetsch, Robert.  Gone Indian.  Macdonald and Janes Publishers Ltd. 

L’Heureux, John.  The Clang Birds.  Macmillan.  No cover letter.

Le Clezio, Jean-Marie Gustave.  War.  Jonathan Cape Ltd.  Includes publisher’s blurb and a dust jacket for The Book of Flights.  by Le Clezio.  (See also carbon copy typed list of David Plante’s suggested dust jacket designs)

Landels, A.  L.  Faith and Flora.  Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Lutyens, Mary.  Cleo.  Michael Joseph Ltd.

Lockhart, Douglas C.  The Road to Weltanschaung.  [Publisher?].  No cover letter.

Malone, John.  The Corruption of Harold Hoskins.  Auson Press.

Moat, John.  The Tugen and the Toot.  Barrie and Jenkins Publishers.

Mavor, Elizabeth.  A Green Equinox.  Michael Joseph Ltd.

Mukherjee, Bharati.  The Tiger’s Daughter.  Chatto and Windus Ltd.

Mullhauser, Steven.  Edwin Mullhouse.  Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd. 

Neugeborden, Jay.  Sam’s Legacy.  [Rinehart and Winston], 2p.  No cover letter.

Noone, Barnaby.  The Night of Accomplishment.  Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Nossack, Hans Erich.  To the Unknown Hero.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  No cover letter.

Oz, Amos.  Somewhere Else.  [Publisher?].  No cover letter.

Peters, Maureen.  Children of the Flesh.  Jones Blakey Publishing. 

Phelps, Gilbert.  The Old Believer.  Barrie & Jenkins Publishers. 

Prince, Peter.  Dogcatcher.  Gollancz.  No cover letter.

Puig, Manuel.  Betrayed by Rita Hayworth.  Lavinia Trever.

Rao, Panduranga.  Short Stories.  [Publisher?].  No cover letter.

Raphael, Phyllis.  They Got What They Wanted.  Michael Joseph Ltd.

Richards, Alun.  Dai Country.  Michael Joseph Ltd.

Sabatier, Robert.  The Match Boy.  Paul Elek Ltd.  2 cover letters.

Sinclair, Clive.  Bibliosexuality.  Allison & Busby.

Stuart, Francis.  Black List, Section.   H.  M.  Brian and O’Keefe.  No cover letter.

Theroux, Alexander.  Three Wogs.  Chatto & Windus Ltd.  (See also carbon copy typed list of David Plante’s suggested dust jacket designs)

Troop, Elizabeth.  Take the Wall.  [Publisher?].  No cover letter.

Windsor, Penelope.  The Ring.  [Publisher?].  No cover letter.

Wolff, Geoffrey.  The Sightseer.  Hamish Hamilton Ltd.  Reader’s report is in the form of a carbon copy typed letter.

Wright, Charles.  Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About.  [Farrar, Straus and Giroux].  No cover letter.

Yeats, Jack B.  The Charmed Life and to You Also, Ay Well.  [Routledgeand & Keegan Pall].  No cover letter.

[Unidentified].  The Brother Hand.  No cover letter.

[Stein, Sylvester].  Title not given.  Carbon copy typed letter,  David Plante to “Elaine."   Carbon copy typed list of suggested dust jacket designs.

Photocopied typescript by Diana Athill (Andre Deutsch) dated May 1979, with handwritten revisions, 8p.

Typed and signed letter,  Diana Athill to David Plante in reference to his collaboration on the Rhys autobiography, 1s.