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Volumes with press cuttings, and some correspondence, pasted in or otherwise inserted.

1. Ruled notebook containing sketch ideas, notes, drafts; 'Doctor Who' note on first page. Memos. 'John Cleese'; tinkering with arrangements of Adams-Smith-Adams names and sketch timings (show sequence), note of ADC Squash time; 'The Wonderful Stereo World of Strutting and Fretting' pencilled inside back cover.

2-7. Four colour photographs taken on travels of friends and two unused postcards from the Ducal Palace, Urbino. Interleaved loose in the notebook.

Contains jointly written account of travels on the Continent (France, Italy, Greece), by Nicholas Burton, Douglas Adams, Caroline Hirsch, Arthur R. Bullard, Sarah Linklater and Neville Walton. Some material added following their return.

Front and back only used. Includes list headed 'Scripts for Simon Brett'.

'Douglas Adams' in fat lettering on red cover. Most sheets absent. Content includes sketch, limerick and song jottings; notes relating to Nigel and Simpson (characters); memos; song list headed 'Tape compilation'. One loose sheet in middle ('Morse Code').

Contains notes apparently from reading and/or a lecture. First gathering only used.

Yellow cover; narrow ruled. Scantly used: front cover, back board, first seven sheets; one sheet in middle with one sum. Notes chiefly about Zaphod Beeblebrox, his mission and his background story. Includes a small memo pad sheet (loose between sixth and seventh sheets) with telephone number.

Yellow paper, ruled. Two leaves used only: lyrics/poetry.

Scantly used (eight leaves at front, three at back). Used chiefly as a household memoranda and message pad (others' handwriting included), contact details of various people and organisations. One piece of loose writing paper inside the front cover begins 'Deaths in Somalia'.

Board covers, ruled and paginated. First six leaves used only; torn fragment of last extant page at back with portion of mathematical calculation or possibly a spreadsheet command. Chiefly technological jottings and some business meeting notes. Starts with notes on game theory strategies, computer/evolution, Darwinism, etc.; draft notes for talk or letter regarding Macintosh (mentions 'way back in 1984').