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John Buckmaster — working drafts

Early drafts of chapters and working notes for a book on John Buckmaster and the battle to save Wandsworth Common. They are unfinished and partly superseded by the pages listed on the John Buckmaster page, but contain material not yet used there.

Draft chapters

• Introduction to the book (early draft) (about 900 words)
• Chapter 1 — John Buckmaster and the battle to save Wandsworth Common (about 5,000 words)
• Chapter 2 — The battle begins (about 4,100 words)
• Chapter 2, alternative version (about 4,500 words)
• Chapter 3 — The massive demonstrations; Samuel Sullings (about 5,700 words)
• Law and loss (chapter fragment) (about 500 words)
• Chapter 4 (outline only) (about 200 words)
• Chapter 5 (outline only) (about 200 words)
• Chapter 6 (about 1,600 words)

Episodes and themes

• Buckmaster's childhood (about 500 words)
• At home with the Buckmasters — Metallurgicon, 1867 (about 600 words)
• What a carve-up (about 700 words)
• Buckmaster and the two posters, 1869/70 (stub) (about 78 words)
• Maps and memories — 33 old people testify about paths across the Common (about 400 words)
• Buckmaster's cookery (stub) (about 20 words)

Notes and outlines

• 1860s: an outline of events with particular reference to JCB (about 8,800 words)
• 1860s, culminating in the 1871 Act — working notes (about 7,000 words)
• John Charles Buckmaster (1819–1908), real name of “John Buckley” — notes (about 1,800 words)
• The last chapter of A Village Politician — with notes (about 7,000 words)
• The final chapter of A Village Politician — working text (about 7,000 words)
• Last chapter — brief notes (about 1,600 words)