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'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').

First six sheets used only, mostly in strong black ink; graph paper. Fragmentary notes, drafts: 'Song Titles', with beginnings of song drafts on reverse and next page; a few jottings including 'The Salmon of Doubt'; other sheets have few words, seemingly mostly word-, phrase- and rhyme-play; penultimate sheet 'Stab in the Light' (song lyric draft). Apparently purchased in France or a Francophone country (price 14 francs).

Cover page and first ten leaves used only, with note of telephone number on first sheet in back (inverted). Contact details on cover page. Extended note on design and evolution (Darwin, Newton, 'watchmaker', technology); a few contact numbers.

First four leaves used (and six removed). Story ideas and dialogue (civilian scientists exceeded brief, research must all be moved up to Los Alamos); one sheet headed 'Gusty Winds'; telephone numbers.

About one-third of sheets missing; five extant sheets used only. First page headed 'MEC 1/27/01' (American dating); apparently notes from a Molecular Electronics Corporation meeting, including innovation and financial and investment notes; speakers' names include Tour and Reed.