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Nine copies. Typescript.

Originals and copies.

Duplicates, including those cuttings whose the full source publication also appears, are not included in the cuttings count, but are included in the page count. Accompanying slips from Durrants and other cuttings services are not included in the page count; cover letters and suchlike are.

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.

The novel. Typescript.

Content apparently for speech(es) and/or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future; plot development and other jottings primarily for the Hitchhiker's film ('Eldrid's offer to help find the ship – why? Eldred cares more about the ship than anything else.'); 'Salmon', 'The Reassuring Room'; more speech/'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future'[?] (biscuits, time travel, first time I saw a computer, the web, it's a pidgin, et al.); more 'Hitchhiker' film[?] jottings. Also various memoranda: chiefly names, numbers and codes. American-sized paper.

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.

First five sheets used only; none removed. Appears to be chiefly notes relating to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future BBC Radio series.

Ruled. Roughly half used. Chiefly speech notes for computer and technology talks (biscuits, babies rebooting, etc.; 'If you don't understand we're now living in a virtual world you're condemned to spend your time sitting wondering why someone else is eating your biscuits.'); a few Hitchhiker's film notes, memos, contacts. Indication of speech at Price Waterhouse Coopers on 1 November (no year).

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.

Originals and copies.

Duplicates, including those cuttings whose the full source publication also appears, are not included in the cuttings count, but are included in the page count. Accompanying slips from Durrants and other cuttings services are not included in the page count.