Attic Papers

Delia's Attic Papers consist of a cardboard box full of about twenty manilla folders, each of which contains her letters, handwritten notes and scores regarding the music she produced from 1962 to 1975.

The papers were found in her attic after she died in 2001 and were given to Mark Ayres who, in 2006, gave them on permanent loan, together with the Attic Tapes to David Butler at the University of Manchester. His department was given a high-quality flatbed scanner to digitize them but this seems not to have happened.

The paper originals are at the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester, who have made a catalogue of them, using a different numbering system from the DD123456 scheme used here for the photosnaps.

Availability

Floating round the internet there are

• A 610MB collection of 137 high-definition scans, known as "the 'medialink' library", scanned in September 2008.
• A 309MB collection of 1170 fuzzy phone-camera snaps, covering almost everything in the box, taken in April 2010 and included in this wiki.
• The John Rylands Library has made a catalogue of them using a different numbering scheme from the DD123456 one used for the fotosnaps present here.
• You can view the originals by visiting the John Rylands library in Manchester, UK in person. "Access to these collections are by prior arrangement only and users should note that the collection is subject to copyright restrictions. If you would like to use the Delia Derbyshire Archive please contact the curator, Dr Janette Martin (email: janette.martin[at]manchester.ac.uk)."