Identity area
Reference code
AdamsDN/1/2/1/103
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 10 March 1988-14 June 1989 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4 pages; paper
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Collaborator with Adams on computer games, and the inspiration for Dirk Gently.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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Thanks him, in sickness and at length, for a delivered gift of food and drink. 'News of your bounty spread rapidly throughout this strange and disenfranchised warren, precipitating the heathen inhabitants into a sort of cargo-cultism which may in time prove irksome.' Typescript. 18 March 1988.
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Praises The Restaurant at the End of the Universe for its 'unusual combination of wit and benevolence'. Manuscript. 10 April 1988.
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Discusses the nuances of romantic love, an arrangement for Adams to help him with a significant tax payment on a loan basis, and plans for a 'spoof translation from the German, Das Erotisches Hausbuch (The Erotic Housebook)'. Typescript and manuscript. 14 June 1989.