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NOTE ON THE TEXTS

Drafts of I Saw Water are to be found in twelve thick folders (TGA 929/2/1/31) in the Colquhoun archive, housed in the Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London. The folders also contain Colquhoun’s contemporaneous dated transcripts of many of the dreams that she incorporated into the novel and some that she considered for inclusion but did not use, notes containing alternative schemes for the novel’s structure and possible names for the characters, calendars of saint’s days, and other related documents. From the evidence of Colquhoun’s letters to publishers, the final typescript on which we have based this first published edition dates to around 1967. It is very clean, with only the occasional autograph correction. We have retained the author’s punctuation (including her use of quotation marks) and British English spelling.

With regard to the previously unpublished essays and poems included in this volume, drafts and typescripts are also housed in the Hyman Kreitman Research Centre. Several drafts often exist for the items we have selected, but the author’s final intentions are always clear. For the published pieces, we have kept to the texts as published. Every reasonable effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of the texts printed here. The editors wish to thank Quest for permission to reprint “The Openings of the Body”; the Hermetic Journal for permission to reprint “The Zodiac and the Flashing Colours”; and Peter Owen Publishers for permission to reprint “Love-Charm II.”