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Description: | Complete typescript draft of a full-length book by Enid Blyton entitled 'Mr Tumpy's Caravan'. The typescript bears very occasional pencil annotations, but otherwise shows no signs of revision or correction. The typescript is contained within a paper folder, with a typed label on the front cover. An additional manuscript note on the cover reads 'Is this out of print?' The label on the front cover of the file gives Blyton's address as Old Thatch, the house she lived in prior to moving to Green Hedges in 1938. This suggests that this story was written some time in the 1930s.
The text of this story is not the same as that of the published story book 'Mr Tumpy and His Caravan' (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1949), but this typescript does appear to contain the core idea which went on to become 'Mr Tumpy and His Caravan'. Mr Tumpy and his walking caravan are the central characters, and the episodic story documents his adventures as he travels with the caravan. There are some similarities in some of the adventures - the Clockwork Men appear in both stories, and the caravan takes a journey across the sea in both stories - but there are also significant differences between this story and the published book. Here, Mr Tumpy has a wife, not a sister; he is accompanied on his journey by Puffin the tinker, Muffin the muffin-man and Bun-Dorg the dog; and much of the action of the story differs from the published book. In addition, none of the characters from Blyton's other works which make appearances in 'Mr Tumpy and His Caravan' - such as Noddy, Mr Pink-Whistle and the Wishing Chair - appear in this typescript. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Rights holder: | Seven Stories | Subjects: | Seven Stories | Source: | Seven Stories | Identifier: | EB/01/08/01 | Go to resource |
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