Dieu et mon droit. – UTV, 220.

The motto of the British crown is set beneath the coat of arms held between the heraldic lion and unicorn; Lowry has sketched in a letter to Margerie (2 February 1956, left margin recto) his and Margerie's coat of arms, with the "Lion & Pronghorn in Gamesome Mood", above the motto "DUCK EST MON DROIT".

Image courtesy Vik Doyen, original letter held by UBC Special Collections.

Below notes for UTV, Lowry has printed a "dictum" he attributed to William James (though as Rick Asals notes [1997, 5], it is actually R. P. Blackmur's redaction of James):

ABJURE THE PLATITUDE OF STATEMENT.
FOR IN ART WHAT IS MERELY STATED
IS NOT PRESENTED, WHAT IS NOT
PRESENTED IS NOT VIVID, WHAT IS NOT
VIVID IS NOT REPRESENTED, AND
WHAT IS NOT REPRESENTED IS
NOT ART.

Image courtesy UBC Special Collection, WT 1-14.

Above: One of several fragments remaining of Lowry's In Ballast to the White Sea, the manuscript thought lost when the Dollarton shack was destroyed by fire in 1944, only for an early typewritten draft to be discovered in the Jan Gabrial Papers at the New York Public Library. The element of fire, Lowry believed, followed him around. Image courtesy UBC Special Collections.

Above: A manuscript page from UTV, showing Lowry's typical revision process – corrections, marginal notes and inserted sentences.

Below: Notes for UTV "to be placed at end of Chapter VII" which identify the one place Lowry felt Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend had influenced his writing. He writes that the "delirium passage", although it was "virtually written long before", was "added after reading it in order to beat it at its own game."

Images courtesy UBC Special Collections.