File contains a handwritten and a typed draft of Budge Wilson's short story "Two Diaries," which was published in her short story anthology "Fractures."
File contains two typewritten versions and a photocopy of the published short story "Mr. Manuel Jenkins." This short story was published in Fractures and the Leaving
Subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts of Budge Wilson's short stories that were included in her anthology "Friendships: Stories." The twelve short stories included in this book are as follows: "Snake"; "Bruno"; "Justice"; "Music Festival"; "My Heroine, Murphy Brown"; "Escape Route"; "Fear"; "Poem"; "Father by Mail"; "Lillian"; "Big Little Jerome"; and "Maid of Honor."
File contains the manuscript and two typewritten drafts of the short story "Maid of Honour," which was published in "Friendships: Stories" (Penguin Canada, 2006).
File contains an annotated, typed draft of Budge Wilson's book "Harold and Harold," and two photocopied pages of the first page of another draft of the same book.
File contains an annotated, typed draft of Budge Wilson's book "Harold and Harold," with annotations from Budge Wilson and her copy editor, Sheila Dalton.
Subseries contains handwritten and typescript drafts of the first book in Budge Wilson's Izzie series, "The Christmas that Almost Wasn't." The book was originally titled "The Christmas of the Big Blow."
File contains three annotated and copy edited drafts of Budge Wilson's second book in the Izzie series, "Trongate Fury." The file also contains correspondence between Budge Wilson and editors at Penguin publishing.
File contains the final proof of Budge Wilson's book "Trongate Fury," with Wilson's handwritten comments in red ink and letters to the senior production editor at Penguin Group, Sandra Tooze.
File contains an annotated draft of Budge Wilson's book "Madame Belzile and Ramsay Hitherton-Hobbs" and eight pages of handwritten notes by Budge Wilson that describe illustrations for the book.
Subseries contains a copy-edited draft of Budge Wilson's short story anthology "Mothers and other Strangers" and a copy-edited draft of one of the short stories that it contained, "The Listener." Most of the short stories in this anthology also appeared in other anthologies: "The Listener," "Loretta and Alexander," "Elliot's Daughter," "Just Give Me a Little more Time," "Mrs. Macintosh," "The House on High Street," "Birds, Horses, and Muffins," "The Diary," "Mrs. Garibaldi and Leonardo," and "The Reunion."
File contains a typed and annotated draft of Budge Wilson's book "Mystery Lights at Blue Harbour" and a letter from her editor at Scholastic-TAB Publications Ltd., Sheila Dalton. The draft is missing some pages and included pages are out of order. A note from Budge Wilson on one of the pages reads "pages missing may not have needed edit."
File contains a typed and annotated draft of Budge Wilson's book "Mystery Lights at Blue Harbour" and handwritten pages with Wilson's notes. The draft was typed by a professional typist after the first handwritten draft and Wilson's first typed version.
File contains a typed and annotated draft of Budge Wilson's book "Oliver's Wars" and an overview of each chapter and the characters, which Wilson submitted for an Aid to Established Writers Grant, which she received in 1991. The file also includes handwritten notes on the book by Wilson.
File contains a typed and annotated draft of chapters five and six and the front matter from Budge Wilson's book "Oliver's Wars." A note at the top of the first page from Budge Wilson reads "Stoddart - Rough copy of editorial changes by Budge. For interest and amusement only. Please return."
File contains an annotated, typed draft of Budge Wilson's book with the working title "Seven Days for Sharla" (or "Sharla's Churchill," "Sharla's Five Days," or "Sharla and the Bears"), which was later published as "Sharla." The file also contains two handwritten pages of notes about the book.
File contains a partial draft of Budge Wilson's book with the working title "Seven Days for Sharla," which was later published as "Sharla." The typed pages are annotated.
File contains an annotated, typed draft of Budge Wilson's book with the working title "Seven Days for Sharla," which was later published as "Sharla." The file also includes two corrected lists of acknowledgements.
