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A grey hard cover note book containing various manuscript short stories. The first begins: "The crocodile was looking for a place to live..." The next begins: "Sarah was lucky because she had two pairs of gloves..." The next begins: "At the school concert Toby was dressed as a clown..." The next begins: "When the present came from Aunt Helen..." The next begins: "The supermarket at the end of the world..." The next begins: "Other people at the bus stop stared at him..."

Scope and Contents 1979 diary containing various manuscript stories. "One day with a witch sat down on the bank of a river to eat her lunch...", "The first day Elizabeth was sick her mother stayed home...", "It’s a bad bad scene when your hair turns green… ", "Under the dark slopes of Dagon hill lived the famous author...", Early drafts of 'The Traveling Boy and the Stay-at-Home Bird', "There once was a boy called Comus who became a master burglar...", "There once were five sisters and their names were...

Scope and Contents Hardcover Collins lecture notebook containing various untitled manuscripts and poems. "On one side of Scrag Mountain lay the town of Winkle...", "There was once a country school with twenty children in it...", "What a fuss when Wally and Beattie have to go out for any reason...", Ten pages of poems (limericks) numbered 13 to 28, many sports themed "If you run, or you jog or you dance...", 'Weasel Pudding', Four pages of poems, sports and poetry themed, "It was a beautiful day in Autumn a...

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Very disarrayed file of Manuscripts and portions of manuscripts interspersed with pencil sketches. Short stories include portions of 'Heriot' and various untitled works as well as: 'Sailor Jack', 'Tom Tib Goes Shopping', 'Right-Hand Men', 'A Witch in the House' (Aunt Nasty), The Adventures of Little Mouse', 'The Witch Dog', 'Mr Discombobulous', 'The Baby Sitter', 'The Spring Siege'.

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Hard cover Collins 1976 Diary containing manuscripts of several stories Including 'the Tricksters', 'The Soup Pot on the Roof', 'Mr Whisker'. Text inscribed in Margaret's hand inside front cover: "Mix of stories, Tricksters, Blood and Thunder".

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Pacific spiral bound notebook. Cover has a note "Notes for memory Mrs Byrnes words". Interior of the notebook has notes re characters Sophie, Jonathan, Janine Also includes list of words with definition [unusual words] Also includes a poem beginning "I am not a prig but I say to every tourist... " There are also ideas for three stories- Pig farmer, Testing the biscuit and The bath with claw feet.

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Typescript of a short story titled 'Various Shadows', two copies.

Scope and Contents Hard cover Warwick students lecture book containing several short stories including 'The Great Piratical Rumbustification', 'The Witch in the Cherry Tree" and the 'The Wing-Wang-Ning-Nang-Iggle-Oggle-Woggle Bird'. Other stories begin: "One day Rebecca Laburnam the beautiful librarian...", "This man Mr Trebelli was a flute player by profession... ", "Mrs Spratt stared sadly at them...", "A lot of young wizards just out of wizard school...", "Down the street to the shops came...

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Correspondence, Storylines, Contract proposals and Project descriptions for various television programmes. Storylines include 'Cinderello', 'The Bath', 'The Tail', 'Lone Postman', 'Woman blown into a tree', 'The Transformation of Gloom Street' and 'The Knitwitch'.

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Typescript of a short story titled 'Violent Toys'