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University of Victoria Special Collections Higgins, Aidan, 1927- SC055 University of Victoria Special Collections Higgins, Aidan, 1927- SC055 Title Aidan Higgins fonds Dates 1957-1989 Extent 2.3 m of textual records 8 audio cassettes Biographical Sketch Aidan Higgins, born in County Kildare, Ireland, is an Irish novelist, influenced in his work by modernists such as James Joyce, Brian O'Nolan and Samuel Beckett. In 1955, Higgins went to London for a time, where he continued to write novels, short stories, radio plays, and documentaries. He also spent time in South Africa and Germany. His published works include "Felo De Se" (1960), "Langrishe, Go Down" (1966), "Balcony of Europe" (1972), "Images of Africa: Diary, 1956-60" (1971), "Scenes from a Receding Past" (1977), "Bornholm Night Ferry" (1983), "Helsingor Station & Other Departures: Fictions & Autobiographies, 1956-89 (1989), and "Ronda Gorge & Other Precipices: Travel Writing, 1956-89 (1989). Scope and Content The fonds consists of manuscripts of novels, notebook, typescripts, galley proofs, sound recordings, and transcripts of radio plays and interviews with Higgins, and correspondence, including that with John Montague, from 1961 to 1971. The fonds includes manuscripts and other material relating to "Felo De Se", "Langrishe, Go Down", "Balcony of Europe", "Images of Africa", "Scenes from a Receding Past", "The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand", "Uncontrollable Laughter", "Discords of Good Humour", "Vanishing Heroes", "Texts for the Air", "Winter is Coming", "Bornholm Night Ferry", "Helsingor Station", and "Ronda Gorge". Finding Aids Finding aid available with item level control. Title Source Title based on the contents of the fonds. Aidan Higgins, 1927 - Irish Writer Box 1 Felo De Se. [short stories]. Includes: Killachter Meadow, Lebensraum, Asylum, Winter Offensive, Tower and Angels, Nightfall on Cape Piscator. Lot 1. Notebooks preliminary notes with possible titles. Johannesburg, 1957-9, 8 v., 10 x 16 cm., holograph notes. File 1 A.H. 1.1 Kidds Beach 5. XII. 57 1.2 Johannesburg 15. I. 58 1.3 Bulawayo 30. IV. 58 2 1.4 Johannesburg 2. VI. 58 1.5 Johannesburg 1. August. 1958 1.6 Johannesburg 23. X. 58 3 1.7 Johannesburg 28. II. 59 (See A.H. 3.6 Johannesburg - 22. 11. 58, covering drafts of "Asylum", black, 33 x 20 cm. notebook.) 1.8 Johannesburg 1. July. 1959 Lot 2. Typescripts 4 A.H. 2.0 publishing history, 1 leaf, typescript, with 1 holo. addition 2.1 early drafts of "Tower and Angel", tss, corr. single spaced 7 leaves = 12 p. 2.2 preliminary draft of "Killachter Meadow" tss with numerous holograph revisions, 12 leaves = 23 pp. 2.3 corrected carbon of proof-copy of "Lebensraum", 9 leaves = 17 pp. 5 2.4 "rejected chapter from "Asylum""tss, corr. 6 leaves = 6 pp. 2.5 carbon of early draft of "Asylum", heavily revised, 36 leaves = 72 pp. corrected carbon of "Tower and Angels" (2 parts) 6 2.6 (1) Winter Offensive (less Part I-II, p. 17) pp. 1-20, 20 leaves = 20 pp. 2.7 (2) Tower and Angels (p. 32 "Alter or begin again"), page 21-43, 23 leaves = 24 pp. with a photograph of a soldier (cavalry?) in uniform on t.p. 2.8 preliminary draft of "Nightfall on Cape Piscator", tss, corr. 15 leaves = 15 pp. 2.9 corrected carbon of "Killachter Meadow", 11 leaves = 21 pp., "correct proofs from this 27/2/60" written on half-title. 2.10 corrected carbon of "Lebensraum", 9 leaves = 18 pp., [p. 8 holograph corrections]. "correct proofs from this 27/2/60" written on half-title. BOX 1 Felo De Se. (cont'd.) Lot 2. Typescripts File 7 2.11 corrected carbon of "Asylum", 37 leaves = 71 pp. [6 verso and 61 verso holograph], "correct proofs from this 27/2/60" written on half-title. 8 2.12 corrected carbon of "Winter Offensive", originally titled "Actions in Guerilla Warfare". 20 leaves = 20 pp., "correct proofs from this 27/2/60" written on half-title. 2.13 carbon of Nightfall on Cape Piscator", 16 leaves = 16 pp., "correct proofs from this 27/2/60" written on p. 1. Illustrative materials: three cardboard folders 2.14 1st with "Felo De Se" [printed], a publishing history: containing a sketch map of [?Heidelberg?] 2.15 2nd with "'Tower and Angels', Heidelberg. Pastern Family Background; Emergence of the Son": containing a family snapshot (soldier and wife?), a picture of Heidelberg Castle?, a map of the Rhine Valley with Heidelberg circled (all above taped in); with loose sketch map of [?Heidelberg?] and Hanser-information, Fall 1962, of authors Aidan Higgins and Flannery O'Connor 2.16 3rd with "'Tower and Angels', Willie Bausch, Early and Later Life of Annelise von Frömar": containing cuttings of Keitum, Bad Kreuznach and Meersburg (all taped in). Corrected galley proofs 2.17 London: John Calder, 1960, 48 leaves Langrishe, Go Down [novel] Lot. 3. Notebooks 3 notebooks with detachable leaves. Preliminary notes on Celbridge area for Langrishe, Go Down 9 A.H. 3.0 The Kinnoull Spiral, 15 x 10 cm.; Celbridge background 3.1 The Eclipse Wire Bound, 17 x 10 cm., Johannesburg, 24/2/60 3.2 Silvine [orange], 16 x 10 cm., Dublin, Sept. 6/1960 3 buff notebooks, 23 x 18 cm., with numbered pages, 1 and 2 have tables of contents. 10 3.3 No. 1. Dublin, Oct. 1960, 100 pp., illus. 3.4 No. 2. Dublin, Oct. 1960, 91 pp., illus. 11 3.5 No. III. Dublin, 9/11/60, 90 pp.,illus. 2 foolscap notebooks, 34 x 20 cm., with numbered pages. 12 3.6 black: I) pp. 1-52 "Notebook kept in Johannesburg, covering drafts of "Asylum"." (Sept. 21 - Nov. 22, 1958) II) pp. 1-55 and then unnumbered "Dublin notebook. Notes for Langrishe, Go Down ." (Nov. 14, 1960) 13 3.7 red: Dublin, 27/2/62, 137 pp. plus unnumbered pages; some loose clippings BOX 1 Typescripts folders of preliminary drafts of Langrishe, Go Down File 14-15 3.8 tss, corr. "preliminary drafts of Book 1, Chaps. 1-9" 16-17 3.9 tss, corr. [preliminary] "Draft chapters and worksheets of Book II" BOX 2 Langrishe, Go Down Lot 4. Typescripts (cont'd.) 1 A.H. 4.0 tss, corr. "Three rejected chapters: worksheets; midsection Book II; Otto-Imogen 2 4.1 tss, corr. "Funeral Chapter" (drafts) Book III 3-4 4.2 tss, corr. Later draft with "Calder's corrections in red" and "later additions [1964] in green" Lot 5. Proofs 5 5.0 marked galley proofs from the Dolmen Press Miscellany of Irish Prose (Sept. '62) "Helen Langrishe Goes Home" 5.1 photocopy of set of marked galley proofs from "X magazine", Vol. 2 # 3, July1962, pp.226-234. 5.2 set of corrected galley proofs, 1966 (Calder & Bayar) 6 5.3 marked proof copy of Langrishe, Go Down. Calder and Boyars, London 1965; 271 pp. in torn d.j. [Book Society Alternative Choice] de-catalogued from PR8899/H54L3/1965 Typescripts 7 5.4 tss, corr. rejected chapter of Langrishe, Go Down: family background, 17 pp., plus 1 holograph leaf, heavily corrected in pen and pencil. from Accession 1983-153 Screen Play 8 5.5 tss, photocopy, in paper cover. [actor's] copy of Harold Pinter's film script of Langrishe, Go Down, for Amicus Productions Ltd. 10 x 34 cm., [2], 141 pp. Background Materials 9 5.6 some Celbridge background data Reviews, Correspondence 10 5.7 orange folder of correspondence 1966-72; plus, corrected typescript of Langrishe, Go Down , 8 pp.; and 5 reviews. [received June 1982] 11 5.8 blue folder of correspondence 1966-74; plus Carl Hanser Verlag brochures: Hanser Programm Herbst '67, Hanser Klassiker Gesamtverzeichnis, Hanser Herbst 1966, Polnische Literatur . [received June 1982] BOX 2 Balcony of Europe Lot 6 Proof copy File 12 A.H. 6.1 of excerpt from Balcony of Europe. A.H. 's contribution to The London Magazine, Vol.5, No. 3, June 1965. 13 pp. plus cover [pages disassembled], with holograph corrections in pen. [from Accession 1980-063] Notebooks Foolscap notebooks; notes on characters; parts of scenes; recasts; description of place; all foolscap size. 13 6.2 notebook with wine red cover; kept in Dublin from November 4, 1965 until following July, beginning: "The impossible desire again. The unattainable object. Unattainable? Por que inasequible?" Marked on cover: Balcony of Europe II; 246 pp. plus a few loose leaves. Photocopy of the London Magazine excerpt enclosed. tls to AH pasted on inside front cover, clipping on Ernest Hemingway on inside back cover. 14 6.3 notebook with wine red cover; marked Balcony of Europe III; notes from Dublin, July 1965, beginning: "As soon as I saw her I wanted her. And first, to seduce her, I spread out..." extra material for Langrishe, Go Down incorporated in Grove Press edition and in all foreign editions; notes continued in Spain, February '66 to August '66. Beginning: "Yvette Velde-Soutes: her submerged lips." 140 pp. foolscap. plus some loose leaves. Clippings taped on inside front cover. 15 6.4 Spanish notebook of numbered pages, marked 1-100; plus many loose leaves. cover of marzipan or marbled effect, marked Balcony of Europe IV [Nerja 1966]. To contain source material of quotations used in novel. Begins: "At the eaves...(to)...dampened compactness of the earth."; foolscap size. 16 6.5 Spanish notebook, kept from mid-August '66 to mid-March '67; Marzipan or marble effect on cover marked Balcony of Europe V [Nerja, 1966]. Begins: "Do you think you could handle that sort of action." Foolscap; 200 pp. plus a few loose leaves. 17 6.6 Spanish notebook, size and format as above, marked Balcon de Europa VI, beginning: "In the spring of 1939...". Covering period March 17, 1967 to June 23, 1967.
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