'A Small Person Far Away'

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 1840 JK/03/25
  • Dates of Creation
      c 1976-1978
  • Physical Description
      21 items

Scope and Content

Draft material relating to 'A Small Person Far Away', written by Judith Kerr and first published in 1978. The file contains several pages of manuscript notes on the book's structure and the events depicted, with fragments of a very early draft of the text; a complete manuscript draft, written in pencil, which appears to be an early version of the text, although later than the fragments of the very early draft; and fragments of a later draft of the text, consisting of 16 pages, a mixture of typescript and manuscript, from the first chapter of the book and one page of typescript, numbered page 42, with manuscript annotations.

The manuscript notes in this file indicate that an early working title for this book was 'Mama'.

Arrangement

This file appears out of the order of publication date in which the other files in the series are arranged because it was part of a second, smaller deposit of material made after the main body of the collection had been catalogued.