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Part 1, 236 pages.
Ginny’s earthquake predictions.
List of RAH story ideas from 1958—most not written,
Idea for a boy’s novel from 1955—earth conquered by aliens titled “The Day of the Rats”,
One page part of a letter or narrative with a lot of RAH-isms in it that may or may not have been written by RAH talking about a young man having sex with his mother and the nature of whoring and honest work,
Story idea suggested by Ginny about orphaned kids on a colony planet,
RAH handwritten story idea called “The Hunter Hunted” about an alien invasion,
Manuscript titled “In One Line By Heinlein” compiled by Bob Bowers of good one-line bits from RAH’s works) Pages are an absolute hodgepodge of research articles, clippings, an occasional letter or story note.
Part 2, 245 pages.
Story beginning and notes for “Water, Water Everywhere” about ‘warm ice’ and a dry planet (sounds a bit like Dune in basic concept)
Notes for “The Prisoner of Zenda in Reverse”, this is an outline of a story about the Shipstone company. Elements of Thorby from “Citizen of the Galaxy” come into the story. The history and nature of Shipstone is detailed.
Handwritten notecards for a satirical novel titled “The Amendment”. Not extensive, nor detailed. Partial outline.
Manuscript of never-published Heinlein story “Ghost-to-Ghost Hookup”, by Anson MacDonald, 13 pages, story incomplete.
Manuscript of never-published Heinlein story “The Natives are Friendly”. First page of manuscript and one page of handwritten notes.
Detailed story notes for a boy’s novel (written 1956). The story itself is not greatly described but the cultural and historical background of the setting is in great detail.
“American Dream, Final Phase”, includes 23 written manuscript pages of the beginning of the story and many detailed notes and outline notes.
Story notes for a story that appears to have ultimately turned out to be “Menace From Earth”
Scattered pages and notes for other story ideas.
Notes for a novel, “The Borrowed Body”. The cyclical nature of the story echoes “All You Zombies” but is quite a different tale.
Outline for an adult novel (from 1955) titled “The Sky Brides”.
Notes and first 13 pages of manuscript for novel “Bounty Planet (there are notes about this story idea elsewhere).
Notes (from 1953) for “The Natives are Friendly: Starship Botany Bay”.
Articles about Mark Twain.
Handwritten notecards with quotes for/by Lazarus Long and/or Adam Selene.
Predictions for 1981 (not written by RAH).
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