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Papers of Douglas Noël Adams
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Personal, Family and Business Material

  • AdamsDN/1
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  • 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.).

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.

Travel and composition notebook, with inserted items/

  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.

Notebook: 'Diary of a four wheel drift south'.

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.

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