Exchange of messages between Adams and somebody else.

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Somebody else: 'Did I bump into you coming round the corner at 11.0 [sic] because after I had gone past it struck me that it might have been you.' Adams: 'I thought you were sweeping past in a Hough.' Manuscript.

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Papers of Douglas Noël AdamsAdamsDN

Personal, Family and Business MaterialAdamsDN/1

Personal and business documentationAdamsDN/1/1

CorrespondenceAdamsDN/1/2

SchoolAdamsDN/1/3

Schoolwork, documentation and extracurricular activitiesAdamsDN/1/3/1

'Brentwood Pictures'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/1

'Brentwood School School Lists' for Michaelmas 1966 and Michaelmas 1968.AdamsDN/1/3/1/2

'Brentwood School Curricula and Courses' for 1964.AdamsDN/1/3/1/3

'Brentwood School Calendar and Fixture Card' for Michaelmas 1967, Lent 1968 and Michaelmas 1970.AdamsDN/1/3/1/4

Adams's Brentwood School reports for Michaelmas 1964 and Trinity 1970.AdamsDN/1/3/1/5

Public examination papers.AdamsDN/1/3/1/6

University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations General Certificate of Education: certificate confirming that Adams has passed his Ordinary Level Music examination.AdamsDN/1/3/1/7

List of school subjects next to numbers: possibly examination results.AdamsDN/1/3/1/8

Brentwood School Service in Chapel Prize certificate, awarded to Adams.AdamsDN/1/3/1/9

Card to Adams reproducing a print of Brentwood School and signed by Richard Sale (Headmaster).AdamsDN/1/3/1/10

Photograph of Adams in school uniform at the age of 11.AdamsDN/1/3/1/11

Four mounted group photographs of Brentwood pupils, including Adams.AdamsDN/1/3/1/12

Painting by Adams of a dancer.AdamsDN/1/3/1/13

'Looking down your nose': mounted photograph by Adams.AdamsDN/1/3/1/14

Sketch pad labelled '"O" Level Art 1967-8'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/15

Records of chemistry experiments.AdamsDN/1/3/1/16

Note on Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/17

'The influence of Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" on the poetry of John Keats'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/18

English Literature notes and marked work: 'Chaucer / Shakespeare / Milton / [George] Eliot'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/19

Fictional biography of 'Christopher Turquoise', with a teacher's comment and an 'A' grade.AdamsDN/1/3/1/20

Notes on the Fiord Coast and on population distribution in the Congo Basin.AdamsDN/1/3/1/21

German grammar and vocabulary notes, with file dividers.AdamsDN/1/3/1/22

Notes on Aryanism.AdamsDN/1/3/1/23

Notes on economic and labour history.AdamsDN/1/3/1/24

Notes on Latin American history.AdamsDN/1/3/1/25

Medieval history: teacher's notes.AdamsDN/1/3/1/26

Medieval history: list of questions.AdamsDN/1/3/1/27

Medieval history: assorted notes and a marked essay.AdamsDN/1/3/1/28

Medieval history: marked essays in response to numbered questions.AdamsDN/1/3/1/29

Medieval history: notes and a marked essay on Bernard of Clairvaux.AdamsDN/1/3/1/30

Medieval history: notes on Charlemagne.AdamsDN/1/3/1/31

Medieval history: notes on Charles of Anjou.AdamsDN/1/3/1/32

Medieval history: notes on Cluny and the Cluniac movement.AdamsDN/1/3/1/33

Medieval history: notes and a marked essay on the Crusades.AdamsDN/1/3/1/34

Medieval history: notes on the origins of the English Parliament.AdamsDN/1/3/1/35

Medieval history: notes on feudalism.AdamsDN/1/3/1/36

Medieval history: notes on France.AdamsDN/1/3/1/37

Medieval history: notes and two marked essays on Frederick II.AdamsDN/1/3/1/38

Medieval history: notes and a marked essay on Germany.AdamsDN/1/3/1/39

Medieval history: notes on Henry V.AdamsDN/1/3/1/40

Medieval history: notes on the Investiture Controversy.AdamsDN/1/3/1/41

Medieval history: notes on Llewellyn the Great.AdamsDN/1/3/1/42

Medieval history: notes on St Louis.AdamsDN/1/3/1/43

Medieval history: notes and a marked 'project' essay on monasticism.AdamsDN/1/3/1/44

Medieval history: notes and three marked essays on the Papacy.AdamsDN/1/3/1/45

Medieval history: notes on Philip Augustus (Philip II).AdamsDN/1/3/1/46

Medieval history: notes on Philip the Fair.AdamsDN/1/3/1/47

Medieval history: notes on universities.AdamsDN/1/3/1/48

Medieval history: file dividers, with doodles.AdamsDN/1/3/1/49

Envelope marked 'Douglas Adams / European medieval history 'A' Level notes'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/50

Folder containing an annotated Latin vocabulary list.AdamsDN/1/3/1/51

Scrap of paper bearing a calculation of 330 x 7.AdamsDN/1/3/1/52

Notes in response to 'Why would one call a piece of music good?'AdamsDN/1/3/1/53

Music manuscript book labelled 'Arrangements' and containing same.AdamsDN/1/3/1/54

Music manuscript book with some pages used.AdamsDN/1/3/1/55

'Cant par la Flor'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/56

Sheet music for various horn parts.AdamsDN/1/3/1/57

Two compositions.AdamsDN/1/3/1/58

'Linz Symphony' in C major.AdamsDN/1/3/1/59

Music manuscript book labelled 'Octet', with an arrangement of a portion of The Beatles' 'Here, There and Everywhere' among its contents.AdamsDN/1/3/1/60

Doodles and signature practice.AdamsDN/1/3/1/61

Exchange of messages between Adams and somebody else.AdamsDN/1/3/1/62

Stephen Foster quotation.AdamsDN/1/3/1/63

Mission statement for Artsphere, Adams's school arts collaboration with Paul Neil Milne Johnstone.AdamsDN/1/3/1/64

Review of 'The Artsphere Concert: Paris Green'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/65

Film reviews: 'Who Saw Him Die?' (dir. Jan Troell), 'The Round Up' (dir. Miklós Jancsó) and 'Diptych' (dir. Walerian Borowczyk).AdamsDN/1/3/1/66

'Broadsheet', the Artsphere magazine.AdamsDN/1/3/1/67

Account of a school trip to Denmark, with illustrations.AdamsDN/1/3/1/68

Poem: 'Amoebae'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/69

Poem: 'Tramps Eye View' (sic), 'written down without any previous thought'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/70

Spoof news bulletin: the 'Snowdonian Snivel'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/71

Debate speech: 'This house would shave its head'. Adams proposes.AdamsDN/1/3/1/72

'A Surfeit of Ghosts, or, Antidisispookerism'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/73

'The Boy with a Cart'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/74

Brentwood School play programmes.AdamsDN/1/3/1/75

Cutting from an unknown newspaper: a review of the Brentwood School production of 'The Insect Play' by the Brothers Capek.AdamsDN/1/3/1/76

Transcripts of material relating to Miss Elizabeth Manners's views on young people and on headmasters versus headmistresses.AdamsDN/1/3/1/77

'Address to the Brentwood Rotary Club'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/78

Brentwood School Photographic Society membership card, 1966/7.AdamsDN/1/3/1/79

Report on the Lent Term meetings of the Brentwood School Historical Society.AdamsDN/1/3/1/80

Invitation to a Brentwood School Pedagogues' Society performance of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.AdamsDN/1/3/1/81

Invitation to a Brentwood School Classical Society performance of 'The House of Atreus', a translation of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' and 'The Libation Bearers' ('Oresteia').AdamsDN/1/3/1/82

Opinion poll for the 'Brentwoodian' on the 1970 South African cricket tour of England.AdamsDN/1/3/1/83

Adams's Grade II piano certificate from the Royal Schools of Music.AdamsDN/1/3/1/84

Adams's Combined Cadet Force Army Proficiency Certificate.AdamsDN/1/3/1/85

Booklet logging Adams's achievements towards the Sir William Wynne-Finch Award on the P.P.S. Camps Viking Cruises.AdamsDN/1/3/1/86

'Holy Communion', with Adams's confirmation certificate pasted in.AdamsDN/1/3/1/87

The Revised Cathechism.AdamsDN/1/3/1/88

Confirmation Retreat 'What Is a Christian?' booklet.AdamsDN/1/3/1/89

Poster map of the British Isles from Mercator's 'Atlas' (1595).AdamsDN/1/3/1/90

School publicationsAdamsDN/1/3/2

UniversityAdamsDN/1/4

Finances and employmentAdamsDN/1/5

Address booksAdamsDN/1/6

Cuttings and periodicalsAdamsDN/1/8

Transport, travel and tourismAdamsDN/1/9

MusicAdamsDN/1/10

Books ownedAdamsDN/1/11

ProgrammesAdamsDN/1/12

PhotographsAdamsDN/1/13

ArtefactsAdamsDN/1/14

Oversize itemsAdamsDN/1/15

FilingAdamsDN/1/16

NotebooksAdamsDN/2

Early MaterialAdamsDN/3

'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' SeriesAdamsDN/4

'Doctor Who'AdamsDN/5

LiffAdamsDN/6

Dirk GentlyAdamsDN/7

'Last Chance to See'AdamsDN/8

Other Works and ProjectsAdamsDN/9

Press and PublicityAdamsDN/10

Magnetic and Optical MaterialAdamsDN/11