Programs & Services: Publications: Collection Guides: Nadine Gordimer Papers
Diaries and Notebooks
(Box 15, folders 81 - 87)
- folder 81:
- Diary, 1934. Records the beginning of the illness that caused
Gordimer's mother to take her out of school at age 11, during which time
she began to write.
- folder 82:
- Notebook, early 1950s. Notes for stories, including: A Bit of
Young Life, A Long Walk from Rhodesia, Visit to a Bachelor, An Image of
Success
- folder 83:
- Diary used as notebook, 1959-1964. Notes for Occasion for
Loving and The Late Bourgeois World and other stories.
- folders 84 - 85:
- Two diaries, 1967 and 1968, containing sparse notes of
when stories were finished, etc.
- folder 86:
- Pages from notebook, 1980 - 1984. Dates at top of each page
are those when note was made; dates in margins record when story was actually
written. Working notes, ideas, etc. mostly for stories included in Something
Out There: Sins of the Third Age, Crimes of Conscience, A City of the
Living, a City of the Dead, At the Rendezvous of Victory, Something Out
There. Notes also for: Old Stock; Idea for unwritten story--One day, towards
the end of my life...; White girl married to a black... first idea for what
became the novel A Sport of Nature; Love 3, Blinder; Love 4, Bernie du
Toit... (unwritten); Love 2, Terminal; Tourism
- folder 87:
- Notebook, 1986 - 1990. Contains all notes, chapter analysis,
names, ideas for novel, record of quotations, etc. for My Son's Story.
Also contains notes for stories included in Jump, and Other Stories that
were written or noted while writing My Son's Story, including: My Father
Leaves Home; Some Are Born to Sweet Delight; The Moment Before the Gun Went
Off; Home; Comrades; A Journey; Keeping Fit. Miscellaneous other notes
including those for an unpublished story
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