| Description | One bundle in 1947-postmarked envelope containing assorted papers as follows:
1. Fragments of typescript [first two pages only] with manuscript annotations of play 'Frontier Y: a play in one act', n.d. [post 1939]. Written for broadcasting.
2. Typescript of play 'The frontier: a play in one act', with manuscript annotations. Characters: Kurt, Lisa, Erich, Aunt Louise, Charles Kellendonck, Schroeder, n.d. [c 1939] Written for broadcasting.
3. Fine typescript of short story 'A sailor at Waterloo' [published in 'Hands to dance'], n.d.
4. Manuscript draft contents' page for 'Adios Gibraltar' (also called 'Hands to Dance and Skylark'), n.d.
5. Fine typescripts, n.d. of the following short stories or chapter drafts for 'Adios Gibraltar' [later published as 'Hands to dance']:
'Gibraltar: a cure for seasickness'
'A night in Aleck'
'Welcome to Australia' (written by Richard Trethewey, pseudonym)
'The life and death of Captain Exe'
'My memories of Uncle Archie' [2 copies]
6. Typescript title page and contents page for 'Hands to Dance and Skylark', n.d.
7. Bundle of mainly fine typescripts of poems [some multiple copies], which mostly appear in 'Poems in pamphlet' and 'Farewell, Aggie Weston' (first lines also given where title of poem unclear): 'Elizabethan Salior's song', 'Homage to Louis Macneice', 'Private Hodge remembers Ceylon', 'A ballad for Katharine of Aragon', 'At the grave of John Clare', 'An ode to the sons of Droitwich', 'Lindy', 'Rattler Morgan', 'Autobiography', 'Demobilisation leave', 'Carol for a drowned sailor' (also called 'Convoy' and 'A carol for X: drowned in a Russian convoy'), 'Dear sweet St Helen's with your shocking town hall', 'HMS Eclipse approaches Freetown', 'Ourimah, October 1945', 'Chief petty officer', 'Conversation in Gibraltar, 1942', 'HMS Glory', 'The four seasons in North Cornwall', 'A poetry notebook', 'Song of the dying gunner AA1', 'Keats at Teignmouth', 'Return to Cornwall', 'A song for Morwenna', 'Dubliner's love song', 'King's College chapel', 'HMS Glory at Sydney', 'Legend', 'A voyage from Italy' and 'A poetry notebook', 1940s |