The job [manuscript] / by Henry Green, [1940-1942]

Holograph MS of Henry Green's novel, Caught, containing numerous emendations in the author's hand.

Ms. leaves.

Title, canceled title and author from caption title on fol. 1r. -- Text published in 1943 under the title: Caught.

Unbound.;  Origin: Location and date from fol. 154r: London June 1940-July 1942.

Provenance: Acquired from Beauchamp, 12 April 1957. -- Formerly housed in a cardboard folder (removed to item folder) with two shipping labels: the first from Evans Brothers Ltd. addressed to Miss A. Jennings in Chichester, Sussex; the second laid-over the first and addressed to Arthur Koestler Esq. 8 Montpellier Square.

Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 240.

Manuscript foliation in upper left corner of recto leaves beginning on fol. 1r (corrected in pencil up to fol. 84 by a later hand).

Approximate word counts in lower left corner of several leaves recto.

Fol. 4 lacks lower portion of leaf; text appears unaffected. -- Fols. 19 and 33 are half-sheets. -- Fols. 25-26 at one time made up a single leaf (ripped in half by author).

Fol. 85 is a typescript sheet. -- Fol. 86r has MS foliation jump to 198 (from 63 on fol. 84r - some leaves missing?).