The Chair of Babel, 1992

Containers:

Box 64 (MS Acc13.092)

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File

Content Summary:

Oxford University Press, 1992. Blue Europa Grip File "The Chair Of Babel (original copies)"; carbon and top copy typescripts, some with autograph revisions. In the folder is an earlier stage of typed "Contents Page". With a full gathering of the collection in final typescript, heavily marked up throughout for setting, but also with original markings of a textual proofing, plus all Porter's late changes to the text; WITH Kraft envelope marked "The Chair Of Babel / Rejects / 1991" holding some 35 poems in roughly 70 sheets of typescript, many with PP's comments – attached to which is a handwritten coversheet outlining the process of this editorial stage; AND two bright green oblong spiral bound page proofs of The Chair Of Babel from Wyvern Typesetting for OUP

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