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, with a different numbering system from the DD123456 system used here.
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.
- You can view the originals by visiting the John Rylands library in person.
