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Papers of Douglas Noël Adams Series
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Personal, Family and Business Material

  • AdamsDN/1
  • Series
  • 1954-2001 (Circa. The publication dates of some items precede Adams's birth: publication dates, rather than the unknown dates of acquisition, have been given for those items.)
  • Part of Papers of Douglas Noël Adams

Contents of this series include manuscript and printed papers, photographs, correspondence (personal and business) and school/university work; juvenilia; diaries and address books; other printed materials such as posters and Aston Martin publications; artefacts (personal effects, awards, etc.).

Other Works and Projects

This series comprises material regarding Adams's minor works following his rise to fame: television and radio programmes; lectures; computer games ('Bureaucracy', 'Starship Titanic'); and technological projects including The Digital Village and the internet site H2G2. Textual material includes notes, drafts, scripts, correspondence, publicity and ephemera; there is also a small quantity of graphic and photographic material, and audio and VHS tapes. Some work, primarily scripts, by other writers is included.

Notebooks

Notebooks and notepads with very mixed content, including drafts, personal notes, memoranda. Some word-processed material included where originally closely associated with notebooks or pads. From AdamsDN/2/43 onward, items are legal pads and loose paper from same.

Early Material

Sketches and other scripts for stage, radio, television and film: includes Adams Smith Adams work, and collaborations with Graham Chapman and John Lloyd. Manuscript, typescript and reprographic material, including draft and completed work, with related papers.

Doctor Who

Notes, drafts and scripts for 'The Pirate Planet' (originally 'The Perfect Planet'), 'Shada', and 'Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen'. Manuscript, typescript and reprographic materials.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series

Material from earliest notes and drafts to production scripts and page proofs for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, many of its numerous adaptations, and subsequent novels in the series: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. Includes manuscript, typescript, word-processed and reprographic material, printed matter.

Magnetic and Optical Material

Mixed professional and personal audio-, video- and data-bearing media, including reel-to-reel tapes, audio cassettes and DATs (some mini), VHS tapes, mini DV cassettes, CDs, DVDs, floppy disks and DDS tapes.

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