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Signature: Philip Lindsay, 1927.

One bound volume of typescript with, loosely inserted, a 3p. autographed signed letter from Philip Lindsay to his father, Norman Lindsay, undated, but c. 1929, concerning the novel.

Chaplin describes this manuscript as follows: 'Inscribed by the author: "The Mangle, a Novel by Philip Lindsay, 1927." The author has made many alterations and corrections to the text. Bound in cloth together with autograph letter from Philip to his father, in which he discusses his writing and particularly this novel. In his autobiography I'd Live the Same Life Over Philip writes that he took this script to P. R. Stephensen at the Mandrake Press, hoping that he might publish the novel which is still unpublished. He also wonders whether P. R. S. recognised himself as the hero of the novel, which he is. ' (Chaplin. Lindsay Miscellany, p. 114.)