| Description | One beige file containing assorted literary papers as follows:
1. Manuscript and typescript drafts of untitled short autobiographical piece on Causley by Causley, beginning "Charles Causley (August 24, 1917- ), British poet, writes: I am a frontierman, born in the small market town of Launceston, just on the Cornish side of the River Tamar that divides Cornwall from Devon...". The piece centres on his early life in Launceston and the effect of World War Two on his writing. Possibly intended as an introduction to an early collection of his poems, n.d.
2. Draft manuscript and typescripts of short untitled prose radio broadcast piece about the month of October, beginning "First of all - of course - it's a month slowly filling up with leaves that have chagned from banana-colour to beer-colour. Appropriate about the beer, perhaps - for in England October was said to be the most important month for brewing...", 1965
3. Typescript with annotations of poem 'A literary scandal', n.d.
4. Typescript with annotations, of short prose piece about poem 'Paradise Hill', n.d.
5. Typescript with annotations of text for BBC West of England Home Service 'Books and authors' programme about the newly published autobiography of the Plymouth writer L A G Strong, presented by Vincent Waite and featuring Causley as a guest, Oct 1961
6. First draft of annotated typescript of short TV piece about Emma, first wife of Thomas Hardy, who was from Cornwall, n.d.
7. Fine typescript of extract from radio programme 'Woman's Hour', [BBC] West Region, Jan 1961, about the house of Princess Marthe Bibesco, author, near Falmouth, Cornwall, which houses some of the personal possession of Napoleon Bonaparte; presented by Hubbard and also featuring Mudd and Bibesco
8. Fine typescript of short untitled piece, probably for radio broadcast, about Laurie Lee, n.d.
9. Typescript extract from 'Twentieth century authors' about Princess Bibesco, author, n.d.
10. Typescript biography of Princess Bibesco, May 1961
11. Typescript with annotations of poem 'Athendorus', n.d.
12. Typescript with annotations of poem 'Live and learn' (also called 'Conservation at a burning'), n.d.
13. Fine typescript of poem 'Never take sweets from a stranger', n.d.
14. Typescript with annotations of poem 'A literary scandal', presumably for publication in 'The Listener', n.d. |