i) 40 files, primarily containing typescripts, many with covering notes in Durrell's hand: "The Vienniese [sic] Temper", two corrected typescripts of a travel article, 40 pages, 1980; "Ripeness is All", corrected typescript of a book review, 2 pages; "The Kneller Tape", typescript, 9 pages, 1960; "A Poet's Journal", typescript book review, 2 pages; "Reichel's Book", typescript preface, signed, 2 pages; "Arsenic and Old Smoky", corrected typescript of an Antrobos short story, with a duplicate, altogether 12 pages; "From an elephant's back", corrected typescript lecture, 8 pages, 1984, with French translation and related correspondence; "The Will-Power Man", typescript short story, signed, with two further copies, c.40 pages; Preface to The Black Book, typescript, 2 pages; "The Greek Light", typescript article, 2 pages, 1984; "Novel Notions", revised typescript, 5 pages; Preface to an exhibition catalogue on paintings by writers, corrected typescript and related material, 15 pages; "The Price of Glory", corrected typescript and fair copy, 15 pages; review of La Cendre et les Etoiles, typescript and autograph manuscript, 3 pages; "TSE LIO T", fair copy typescript, three copies, 32 pages, with copy of printed text; "Propaganda and Impropaganda", corrected typescript and fair copy typescript of a lecture, 52 pages, 1974; "Art and Outrage", corrected typescript, two copies, 6 pages; " A Poet in the Mediterranean", corrected typescript lecture, 21 pages; "The Hangman", corrected typescript of a play, 40 pages, c.1940; "The Mazt", corrected typescript preface for L'Heureux, with related material, c.6 pages; review of The Selected Poems of Cavafy, corrected typescript and related material, 12 pages; "what the butler saw", typescript play (unconnected with Orton's play of the same name), two copies, one with corrections, 23 pages ; "Magic of Islands", two corrected typescript copies of an article and related material, 9 pages, c.1981; "The Harem", corrected and fair-copy typescripts, 25 pages, c.1980; "Oedipus", treatment for a television play, corrected typescript and three other copies, c.106 pages; file of prose and verse fragments and research material relating to Caesar's Vast Ghost, c.35 pages, 1980s; "Larry's writings", containing various manuscript and typescript fragments and also some correspondence (including a letter of condolence by David Gascoyne to F. Kestsman), c.55 pages; and 12 others

ii) Lawrence Durrell, three cancelled British passports, 1971-1995



iii) Rank, Otto. Art and Artist. New York: Knopf, 1932. 8vo, with a lengthy inscription by Anaïs Nin to Lawrence Durrell on the front endpaper, dated Paris 27 February 1938, and with scattered marginal annotations and underlining throughout, original brown cloth, upper hinge splitting, loss to half title, binding worn

Lawrence Durrell (ink stamps); "Propriété de F. Kestsman" (ink stamps)

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A SUBSTANTIAL GROUP OF CORRECTED TYPESCRIPTS AND UNPUBLISHED WORKS, MOSTLY FROM THE FINAL DECADE OF DURRELL'S WORKING LIFE.