The phrase "a fair copy" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a clean, final version of a document that is free of errors and ready for submission or presentation.
Example: "After several drafts, I finally produced a fair copy of my essay to submit to the professor."
Alternatives: "clean version" or "final draft".
"Look, he's taken the time to compose this little moral lesson, to write out a fair copy.
It is not even a fair copy, it is something he was drafting as he was mid-composition".
Also hitherto reported as untraceable, Nelson's field map and a fair copy intended for publication are preserved in the archives of the Geological Society, London.
Jefferson claimed that a "fair copy" of the document was in the room that day, and John Hancock possibly signed something, making it legal.
An autograph manuscript in Beethoven's hand would be followed by a fair copy made by an assistant to send to the publisher.
Once Darwin had sent a fair copy of the manuscript off to his publisher, John Murray, he made the rest of his changes to the book directly on the galley proofs, and evidently he wasn't precious about the originals.
After Cooper began journeying in earnest on the Continent, attendance in person at the printing shop became inconvenient (though he continued insisting on reading and returning proofs); providing a fair-copy manuscript to foreign printers became all the more worth the extra labor.
The manuscript is in good clear handwriting, written out without corrections, and obviously intended to be a final fair copy.
The only person who knew of this poem's existence, because Hughes had given her a typed fair copy of it, was the poet's widow, Carol.
But the only person who knew of this poem's existence, because Hughes had given her a typed fair copy of it, was the poet's widow, Carol.
The manuscript is apparently unique and probably an autograph fair copy.
