Corrected draft of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs. Spellings errors and grammar corrected in ink. Some pieces of text have been cut and pasted in to the manuscript, adding new wording. Three copies of a hand-drawn Location Map are included.
Literary manuscripts
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Title page, with 'Itinerary' crossed out, and 'Pilgrimage I South' written in its place. A handwritten table of contents that differs from previous drafts and splits 'Stones of Aran' into 'Itinerary' which covers South, the Excursion and North, and 'Labyrinth', to cover the East, Home and West.
Typescript manuscript of Part 1 'South'. Contains handwritten annotations correcting spellings and changing words, draft pagination, and fragments of pages that have been cut up, and inserted within other pages, an analogue cut and paste exercise.
Typed drafts of each of the chapters in Part 1 of 'A Little Gaelic Kingdom', with 'L' written next to the version in the header. This is to represent that Robinson has incorporated the edits suggested by Liam Mac an Iomaire.
Handwritten references.
Handwritten title page 'Itinerary II North', followed by typescript draft of this part of the book. Contains handwritten annotations correcting spellings and changing words, draft pagination, and fragments of pages that have been cut up, and pasted within other pages.
Photocopied handwritten title page (from P120/3/1/2/8), with 'Itinerary' crossed out, and 'Pilgrimage' written in its place. Typescript draft of 'Pilgrimage II North'. This draft has been photocopied from P120/3/1/2/8, to show loosely attached cut up fragments in their new intended locations.
Typed drafts of the following chapters, with some handwritten annotations. The original order of these chapters has been maintained. An early version of the table of contents, featuring the book's original intended structure, followed by typed drafts of: 'Fortune and Misfortune', 'Sailing on a Stone', 'Looking into other Lives', 'Conversations between Limestone and Granite', 'Yet two more Bays', 'The Drowned Woman', 'The Feast of Sts Peter and Paul', 'The Minister's Sand', 'The Generations', 'Destruction and Reconstruction', 'Point of Arrival', 'The Bay of Doubt', 'The Field of the Cloak', 'Cill Éinne', 'Aircín', two versions of 'Cromwell's Walls', 'Aer Arann', 'Bones in the Sand', two additional versions of 'Destruction and Reconstruction'.
Photocopied handwritten title page and table of contents (from P120/3/1/2/5), with 'Itinerary' crossed out, and 'Pilgrimage' written instead. Typescript draft of the Preface 'Timescape with Signpost', and Pilgrimage I South. This draft has been photocopied from P120/3/1/2/5, to show loosely attached cut up fragments in their new intended order.
Page of handwritten notes with doodles, followed by a typescript draft with annotations of the Preface 'Timescape with Signpost', Itinerary 1, and II 'Excursion'.
Two typescript drafts of Preface 'Timescape with Signpost', with handwritten spelling corrections. Typescript draft of 'Itinerary', and two typescript drafts of 'Excursion'.
Three typescript drafts of the manuscript of 'Mapping South Connemara', covering the Cashel, Carna, Cill Chiaráin area, and representing the first 29 Connacht Tribune articles.
All three drafts contain minor handwritten corrections, and instructions for the printer.