When he wrote a poem for his secretary and lover Betty Mackereth in 1976, Philip Larkin
sent it with a note: “Flog it to Texas if it seems embarrassing.” The
joke was self-indulgent: Larkin knew libraries and archives – such as
the Harry Ransom Centre, in Texas – would hurl themselves off a
proverbial cliff just to get his scraps. Even his shopping list could be
lucrative, so long as he signed it.
The British Library in London currently has a veritable goldmine
papering its walls. Its Harry Potter exhibition is an eclectic curation
of old books, scrolls and ephemera that have some (occasionally tenuous)
connection to JK Rowling's
world. And among the Chinese fortune-telling bones (circa 1000 BC) and
garden gnomes (circa 1900) are Rowling’s drafts for some of the
bestselling books of all time. ... [mehr] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/20/wizard-the-magic-of-harry-potter-at-the-british-library
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