| Description | One large blue spiral-bound notebook, with assorted contents, as follows:
Contains notes on contents of 'Collected poems for children' (1996).
Contains drafts of untitled poem, first line "Fleeing the city to escape a death...".
Contains drafts for an introduction to an exhibition of Launceston poems, beginning "Unlike a river or a stream, a work of art rarely derives from a single source...".
Contains draft beginning of prose story 'The merrymaid of Zennor'.
Contains draft prose piece 'Beginnings' or 'Seedings', starting "Poetry, in my Cornish country boyhood, was something spoken...". Written for an address to the International Poetry Forum, 1994. Enclosed in volume: letter from President of the International Poetry Forum and several typescript versions of the address, with manuscript annotations.
Contains draft autobiographical notes by Causley on himself and his career, with incomplete draft letter to Gaby [?], presumably his publisher.
Contains draft verse play 'St Jerome and the lion: a church opera', with enclosed additional notepad including further drafts, c 1995 |