| Description | One large red hardback notebook inscribed "17.11.90".
Contains the following poem drafts at the front of the volume for 'Collected poems for children': (first lines also given where title of poem unclear): 'Scenes from childhood' ('Mothers' meeting, 1921', 'Ringers' concert, 1928' (also called 'Church concert', 1928'), ' Lord Mayor of London' and 'Paradise'), 'Sphinx at Saqqara', ' Sonnet after Joachim de Bellary' (begins "To charm a creditor that he extends his credit..."), 'Botvid' and ' In twos and threes'
Contains the following poem drafts at the back of the volume 'Collected poems for children': 'Scenes from childhood' ('Stang hunt'); 'First day', Richard Imison', 'Jill and Jack', 'Here comes Dick Clever' (also called 'Tom Clever'), 'The green children', 'Simeon Sly', 'Tom Tidy', 'Zow-bug', 'Mrs Colon', 'Jenny Love's Song', 'Simnel Sunday', 'Sergeant Skillett', 'Tim Tom Tag', 'Ragged, ragged robin', 'Let us walk to the Williwaw Islands' and other poem drafts with no obvious title
Contains draft sections of 'The Emperor's new clothes' at the back of the volume |