| Description | Extensive papers relating to the creation of the various versions of Beer's autobiobraphical piece known variously as Starcross Ferry, The Star Cross Ferry, and The Shining Glory Shore. Includes early material relating to the first versions of Starcross Ferry as a novel and its subsequent re-writing as an autobiographical piece. The manuscript was submitted to Hutchinson (Random House) but as a result of legal clearance problems and lengthy delays, the manuscript was withdrawn in 1993 and never published. |