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Collection Overview
Title: Anthony Burgess Papers, 1961-1967
Predominant Dates:1961-1967
ID: MS/MS/ms021
Primary Creator: Burgess, Anthony (1917-1993)
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Date Acquired: 07/13/1966
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Anthony Burgess Papers consists of typescripts, manuscripts, and other editorial matter toward Devil of a State, The Wanting Seed, Language Made Plain, and Nothing Like the Sun. The collection consists of other miscellaneous materials by Burgess, including a review of John Barth's Giles Goat-boy, a readers report of L'Amour by Docteur René Allendy, and sheet music of Song of the South Downs.
Collection Historical Note
John Anthony Burgess Wilson (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was an English writer and composer who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best known novel. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers, regarded by most critics as his greatest novel. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including for the 1977 TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic, including for The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King and the opera Carmen, among others. Burgess also composed over 250 musical works, and wanted to be regarded primarily as a composer rather than a writer. (Wikipedia)
Administrative Information
Repository:
MS Manuscripts
Access Restrictions:
Open
Use Restrictions:
Users of the collection must read and agree to abide by the rules and procedures set forth in the Materials Use Policies.
Providing access to materials does not constitute permission to publish or otherwise authorize use. All publication not covered by fair use or other exceptions is restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder, which may or may not be Washington University.
If you wish to publish or license Special Collections materials, please contact Special Collections to inquire about copyright status at (314) 935-5495 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu. (Publish means quotation in whole or in part in seminar or term papers, theses or dissertations, journal articles, monographs, books, digital forms, photographs, images, dramatic presentations, transcriptions, or any other form prepared for a limited or general public.)
Acquisition Source:
Purchase
Acquisition Method:
Accession number 751. Purchased from Henry Wenning, 1966: July 13
Accession number 776. Purchased from Bertram Rota Ltd. Booksellers, 1966: September 7
Accession number 1174. Purchased from Bertram Rota Ltd. Booksellers, 1970: April 14
Accession number 1302. Purchased from Covent Garden Bookshop, 1971: October 19
Preferred Citation:
Name of the Collection, Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections
Processing Information:
Processed November 1970
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 1: Material Toward Books
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Devil of a State [novel] [Heinemann, 1963]
- Corrected typescript, and printer's setting copy, with marks by Burgess and printer. Includes title page, author page, other front matter, text. Page one signed by Burgess reading "Original corrected typescript (correction in my hand)" in black ink. Revision moderately heavy in several places. Pages dissheveled. 154 pages.
- Folder 2-3: The Wanting Seed [novel] [Heinemann, 1962]
- Corrected typescript; printer's setting copy. Includes front matter and cover design in ink, with note signed by Burgess reading "Original corrected typescript and cover design in my hand." 217 pages
- Folder 4-5: Language Made Plain [criticism] [English Universities Press, 1964]
- Corrected typescript, used as printer's copy, including front matter, preface and cover page signed by Burgess notes "Language made plain/Corrected typescript by Anthony Burgess." 205 pages
- Folder 6: Language Made Plain [criticism] [English Universities Press, 1964]
- Galley proof, corrected. Printers' markings. Minor corrections by Burgess. 95 galleys
- Box 2
- Folder 1-3: Nothing Like the Sun. A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life [novel] [Heinemann, 1964]
- Corrected typescript. Includes some front matter, Book I, Book II, Epilogue, Introduction, ommitted from published version. (Possibly first draft of "Mr. Burgess's Farewell to His Special Students" - which appears in shorter version in published version.) Title page is signed, reading "Corrected typescript by Anthony Burgess." Bound; quarto, quarter dark blue levant morocco, in a fleece-lined case to match. 1 page of publishers ad copy and newspaper quotes included at the end of typescript. 163 pages. Case also holds: Uncorrected proof copy, bound in paper covers, no marks. 234 pages.
