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The collection contains literary papers, including notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of sketches, novels and scripts; personal papers, including school and university work, notebooks, and ephemera; audio-visual material; and personal effects and artefacts, spanning from Douglas Adams's childhood to his death in 2001. In addition there is a quantity of press cuttings postdating his death. Media other than paper include sound recordings (chiefly reel-to-reel studio tapes; some cassettes); photographs, 35 mm transparencies and plastic negatives (a large quantity of photographic material is from 'Last Chance to See'); and digital backup tapes.

Post-production television script. Copied typescript.

Released by Original Records. 'Based on the BBC Radio 4 series.'

Booklet containing photographs of Brentwood School with captions; intended as 'an introduction and a reminder'.

Sixty-four audio cassettes in two groups.

Twenty-one audio cassettes in a blue filing box:

1. '(Midi) Guitar Sync'.

2. 'Guitar Sync, Lullaby / Big Blues / Keyboard + Elec Guitar / Impro'.

3. 'Brodie's Close, Guitar Synco, Lullaby / Cars'.

4. 'Dire Straits'.

5. 'Slow Dull Guitar Synth'.

6. 'Doodles'.

7. 'Songs'.

8. Unlabelled.

9. 'La Masure June 93'.

10. 'Synth Work'.

11. 'Blank'.

12. 'A Useful Impro / Good Stuff'.

13. 'Damn Right . . . Live in L.A.' / 'Damn Right . . . Live in London'.

14. 'Yellow Dog Sampler'.

15. 'Useful Guitar 170'.

16. 'Blank'.

17. 'No Dobly [sic] Please'.

18. Unlabelled

19. '23rd Nov 86 / Guitar Impro'.

20. 'Guitar Tune'.

21. 'Guitar Sync'.

Note that two tapes ('Kakapo' and 'China 3') have been removed from this box and placed with the Last Chance to See tapes (AdamsDN/11/6).

Forty-three loose audio cassettes.

1. 'Douglas Adams'.

2. 'The Today Programme 13/11/99'.

3. 'Bookclub -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / BBC R4 TX 2.1.00 1530-1630'.

4. 'The Guide to Twenty Years' Hitch-Hiking'.

5. 'Douglas Adams "Desert Island Discs" w/ Juliette Weinstein'.

6. 'Starship Titanic' audiobook sampler (read by Terry Jones).

7. '[Starship] Titanic [music]'.

8. 'Hitchhiker's -- Sig -- Mark Russell'.

9. '"Hitch-hiker" by Ric Harris'.

10. 'Interview'.

11. 'Douglas Adams Göttingen Festival 14.3.94'.

12. 'D.I.D. Douglas Adams'.

13. 'D.I.D. Douglas Adams'.

14. 'Douglas Adams / Shine (Glaxo) Conference / 7/3/00'.

15. 'The Candidate 3 -- Douglas Adams'.

16. 'Lullaby'.

17. 'Short Guitar Imp'.

18. 'Guitar Sync'.

19. 'Guitar impro, including 12 string'.

20. '12 st electric'.

21. Answerphone Music'.

22. 'Guitar, Piano / Rob Buckman'.

23. 'Margo Buchanan'.

24. 'YLH 3 / YLH 4'.

25. 'Nothing on This Side / P.T.O'.

26. 'Beatles Out-takes'.

27. 'Brian Kennedy' / 'Sharon Shannon'.

28. 'Brandenburg III'.

29. 'Songs from The Horse's Mouth / Words by Jeremy Browne / Prokoviev's music arranged by Nic Rowley / Sung by Roy Hudd and Anna Sharkey'.

30. 'The Hardcovers -- Live at Miami Beach / 31/5/93'.

31. 'The Magic Beans'.

32. Redback Audiobooks: 'Invitation'.

33. Eleven unlabelled.

Note that one loose tape ('Last Chance. Brazil') has been removed from this sequence and placed with the Last Chance to See tapes (AdamsDN/11/6).

Eighty-one cassettes in two groupings.

Thirty cassettes in a black case.

1. 'New Zealand' 1-5.

2. 'NZ 1'.

3. 'NZ 2'.

4. 'Kakapo K3'.

5. 'NZ 6'.

6. 'NZ 3'.

7. 'Fiordland'.

8. 'NZ 5'.

9. 'Helicopter & Little Barrier / Day One'.

10. 'Kakapo Found (2)'.

11. 'Last Chance -- Kakapo -- Rushes / 7.9.89' / 'Chile Inserts'.

12. 'China' 1-12.

13. 'Press Conference -- Wellington'.

14. 'Last Chance: Dolphin'.

15. 'China -- Rough Cuts'.

    Fifty-one loose cassettes.

16. 'A) A kind of refuge: Kakapo expedition into Fiordland / B) Assorted kakapo calls rec. by Don Morton'

17. 'Fruit Bat'.

18. 'Mark -- Thoughts on Leaving Komodo' / 'Interview with Putra Sastrawan'.

19. 'Mauritius' 1-12.

20. 'Komodo'.

21. 'Zaire' 1-10.

22. 'Garnets trip + Craig introducing us to Little Barrier Island / + Visitors' / 'Tape of Kakapo calls + various + visitors to L. Barrier'.

23. 'Cod Fish End + Start of Fiordland' / 'Fiordland -- Don -- kakapo sounds -- interview with Bill Black'.

24. 'Brazil' 1-14.

25. 'Chile'.

26. 'Brazil'.

27. 'Last Chance to See inserts. Brazil'.

28. 'Chile inserts'.

29. 'Komodo inserts'.

30. 'Rodrigues Inserts'.

31. 'China 3'.

32. 'Boat / Dragon eats chicken' / 'Komodo'.

33. 'Kakapo'.

This material has come to the Library from sources other than Douglas Adams's estate.

Typescript, with a manuscript correction and a manuscript addition calling for 'a rousing chorus' of 'We're not tired of the sound of Douglas Adams's voice and we heartily approve of the president's move in getting him to speak again tonight'.