Item 103 - Michael Bywater. Three letters to Adams.

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AdamsDN/1/2/1/103

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GB 275 AdamsDN/1/2/1/103

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Michael Bywater. Three letters to Adams.

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  • 10 March 1988-14 June 1989 (Creation)

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4 pages; paper

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(b 1953)

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Collaborator with Adams on computer games, and the inspiration for Dirk Gently.

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  1. 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.

  2. Praises The Restaurant at the End of the Universe for its 'unusual combination of wit and benevolence'. Manuscript. 10 April 1988.

  3. 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.

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