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Prose reflection. Discusses Adams's decision to give up on the prospect of a comedy career and move into commerce. Manuscript.

Typescript introduction to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Scripts.

Songs. 'Which Way' is in two versions, one manuscript and one typescript; 'Song of Disaster' is in typescript on the reverse of the 'Which Way' manuscript.

Requests a cheque returning an overdistribution of income from Adams's grandmother's settlement. Typescript.

Essay on 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

1. Unsigned letter to Adams. Asks for updates on his broken pelvis and his writing. Typescript. 24 September 1973.

2. Letter to Martin Smith from Adams. Discusses recent songwriting and progress with selling sketches. Typescript and manuscript. Undated.

3. Letter to 'Brunnhilde' (probably Will Adams or Martin Smith) from Adams ('Dismal Donald'). Discusses sketches. Typescript. Undated.

4. Letter to Will Adams from Adams. Sends 'bits and pieces'. Manuscript. Undated.

5. Unstamped envelope addressed to Will Adams. Manuscript.

1. Notes on Seven Types of Ambiguity. Typescript and manuscript.

2. Essay 'On the Squeezing of Lemons', discussing the extent to which Empson is part of T.S. Eliot's 'lemon-squeezer school of criticism'. Typescript.

Asks, in character and a roundabout fashion, when the second radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy can be expected. Manuscript.

1. Hamlet I.v.31-40 ('I find thee apt' to 'Now wears his crown') transcribed twice, followed by lines 31-37. Manuscript.

2. Essay on 'Hamlet – a matter of life and death'. Manuscript.

3. Essay on the 'vulgar nationalism' in Henry V. Typescript.

4. Two versions of an essay on 'optimistic' tragedy and King Lear. Manuscript.

5. Essay on Christianity in Measure for Measure.

6. Essay on the possibility of 'theme' in Shakespearean comedy, specifically Much Ado about Nothing. Manuscript.

7. Notes on Shakespearean tragedy. Manuscript.

8. 'Scholarship Questions', with writing on The Winter's Tale. Manuscript.