Manuscripts and related files

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
2013-041/012(01) 1984 is here : the challenge of video and performance art : a proposal for the program "Ideas" on CBC Radio / by Peggy Gale & Susan Swan Item 1981-1982, 1986
2001-054/009(11) Casanova: Draft (Version Of Novel Before A Lot Of Changes To Luce) Item May 2000
2001-054/009(14) Casanova: Draft Item May 2000
2001-054/009(20) Casanova: Draft Item July 2000
2001-054/010(13) Casanova: Draft, The End of the Father Item
2001-054/010(14) Casanova: Draft, Journal Epilogue Item
2001-054/010(15) Casanova: Old Version of Cyprus Item [ca. 2000]
2001-054/010(18) Casanova: Misc. Drafts File 2001
2001-054/010(20) Casanova: Draft Item Jan. 2001
2001-054/010(22) Casanova: Draft Item 23 Mar. 2001
2001-054/010(23) Casanova: Draft Item 12 Apr. 2001
2001-054/011(01) Casanova: Draft Item 19 Apr. 2000
2001-054/011(05) Casanova: Drafts File July 2001
2001-054/011(11) Casanova: Draft Item Aug. 2001
2001-054/011(18) Casanova: Draft Item 24 Aug. 2001
2001-054/012(01) Casanova: Draft Item 30 Aug. 2001
2001-054/012(04) Casanova: Draft Item 4 Sept. 2001
2001-054/012(06) Casanova: Draft Item 5 Sept. 2001
2001-054/014(01) Cover Art for New Editions of Susan's Novels Item 2001
2002-007/003(13) Old Giant Poems 2 File [ca. 1975]
2002-007/003(19) Diary Scripts File 1976-1979
2002-007/003(20) Dragu (any) Diaries File 1976-1977, 1986
2002-007/004(07) Strays File 1985
2002-007/004(21) BMW: Treatment, 20 November Item 1994
2002-007/004(23) BMW: Script, Draft Item [ca. 1984]
2002-007/004(25) BMW: Script, Draft Item [ca. 1984]
2002-007/004(31) BMW: Necessary Angel (Writer in Residence) Item 1984-1985
1995-030/001(02) Notebooks, "May: novel rewrite 1 (Biggest Mod. Woman)"; "July: novel rewrite 2; "August: novel rewrite 3; "Fall: novel rewrite 4"; "Business of Novel" File 1980
1995-030/001(06) Notebooks, 1984: "Rewrites: second notebook", "winter notebook: 84-85" File 1984-1985
1995-030/002(03) Notebooks, "Spring notes on novel", "Oct 20th", "Nov" File 1986
1995-030/002(04) Notebook Item 1987
1995-030/002(06) Notebooks, "Jan 10" "Jan-Feb 10", "Feb 29- May 20", "Aug 12", "Oct 8" File 1988
1995-030/002(07) Notebooks, "Oct 8-Nov 11", "Nov 11", "Dec 88". File 1988
1995-030/005(05) Article on journalist Frank Tumpane, following his death. Also notes from Tumpane to Swan File
1995-030/006(01) Short Story: "The Tallest Man in the World" Item
1995-030/006(02) Research: Tallest Man File
1995-030/006(05) Tallest Man: notes, clippings, revisions File
1995-030/006(07) Tallest Man: notes File
1995-030/006(10) "A Guest on the Property" Item
1995-030/007(05) Article, info on "The Clichettes" File
1995-030/007(08) "Flow charts" of action of play version of Biggest Modern Woman File
1995-030/007(09) Notes on play version of Biggest Modern Woman File
1995-030/007(10) Notes and revisions on play vers. cont'd File
1995-030/007(11) Unpublished spy novel, plus notes, revisions, notebooks File
1995-030/008(02) Short stories: "The Waterbed Syndrome", "The Pick-up". File
1995-030/008(03) Short story: "Norway: Undiscovered home of cross-country skiing". Item
1995-030/008(07) Unfit: reviews, promotional material File
1995-030/008(09) Unfit: banking documents File
1995-030/008(13) Unfit: revisions File
1995-030/009(02) Unfit: press kit, and Margaret Dragu press info File
1995-030/009(04) Unfit: mail for CJ Dingle edition File
1995-030/009(08) Unfit: revisions of "Young and Gay" File
1995-030/010(03) BMW: research on women's period costume and etiquette File
1995-030/010(04) BMW: research on "Gigantic and Miniscule Actors on the Nineteenth-Century Stage" File
1995-030/010(08) BMW: notes on childhood part of novel File
1995-030/010(11) BMW: research on Seville, incl. oral histories File
1995-030/011(02) BMW: research on Barnum File
1995-030/011(03) BMW: editing File
1995-030/011(08) BMW: very rough draft Item
1995-030/013(01) BMW: novel outline and excerpts File
1995-030/013(02) BMW: rough drafts File
1995-030/013(04) BMW: giants calendar Item
1995-030/015(02) BMW: excerpts, research on early toilets and plumbing, Seville, farming, tobacco, gambling File
1995-030/015(03) BMW: research re: strongman Louis Cyr File
1995-030/016(02) GG: cottage info, Haliburton File
1995-030/016(03) GG: "new copy, part one" Item Apr. 1989
1995-030/016(07) GG: "pick-up in boat" rough notes File
1995-030/017(06) GG: part two Item
1995-030/018(02) GG and BMW: financial correspondence, contracts, and publisher's statements File
1995-030/019(03) GG: "Shelly's file" File
1995-030/019(10) GG: rough draft with revisions Item
1995-030/020(06) GG: research on boats File
1995-030/021(04) GG: draft con't Item
1995-030/022(01) GG: flow charts, notes and research incl. swimming, music, business, film, religion, drugs, reptiles, plus select Havergal correspondence File
1995-030/022(07) GG: drafts File
1995-030/022(08) GG: "not quite as old" drafts with revisions File
1995-030/022(10) GG: research incl. Jesuit missionaries, nuclear destruction plus, Jan 87, part one notes, revisions" File
1995-030/022(11) GG: snake research (Norman Elder, partial source for Child) File
1995-030/023(01) GG: "extra copies of spring revisions File 1988
1995-030/023(06) GG: part one Item 10 Sept. 1987
1995-030/024(06) GG: "discards of spring 1986". File
1995-030/024(08) GG: swami research File
1995-030/025(01) GG: Scrapbook of poetry beginning Oct. 1971, incl. poems incl. in Golden Girls Item
1995-030/026(01) GG: excerpts, some material dated June 1987 File
2013-041/013(03) "Fatherless" : manuscript Item [ca. 2006]
2013-041/013(05) File on England File 1989-1990
2013-041/014(02) Jewels & poems File 1973, 1998-2000
2013-041/014(05) "The Man Who Loved Books" File [ca. 1995]
2013-041/015(07) "Nobody calls them servants any more" and "The interim man" : manuscripts File [200-]
2013-041/016(02) "Old Skin Isn't What It Used to Be" : manuscript Item 1997
2013-041/016(03) Old version of "Death at the Hotel Chelsea" Item 2012
2013-041/017(03) "Paulie Lives!" : manuscripts File 1994, 2005-2006
2013-041/017(05) "Paulie Lives!" : annotated manuscripts File 2004-2005
2013-041/018(03) Possible short stories File [198-?], [199-?]
2013-041/020(05) Notes on Canadian humour/irony, Linda Hutcheon File 1991-1993
2017-010/010(10) BookShorts : "What Casanova Told Me" based on the novel by Susan Swan Item Sept. 2004
2013-041/020(05) Notes on Canadian humour/irony, Linda Hutcheon File 1991-1993
2017-010/010(08) "Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With": plot synopsis for TV drama Item [ca. 2005]
2017-010/010(05) "Writing the Line in English Canada" Item [ca. 2010]
2017-010/011(01) "Chelsea Seance : Thomas Wolfe at the Chelsea" Item [ca. 2005]