| Description | File containing typescripts and manuscripts of the following prose works:
1. Short story 'Looking for Annie' [published as 'Looking for Fanny' in 'Hands to dance', 1951]
2. Article 'William Plomer', reprinted in 'Poetry Dimension', 2 (1974) following Plomer's recent death
3. Review of Scottish poet Norman MacCaig's LP sound recording 'The way I see it', beginning "The communication of poetry is still essentially a private occupation: a soundless affair (except in the mind and imagination) between the poet, the printed page, and the reader...", n.d.
4. Autobiographical piece with first line: 'I always wanted to be a writer…' concentrating on his early experiences of reading and writing poetry, n.d. [accompanying typescript of later version begins: "I was an only child born in Launceston, a little market town in north Cornwall, and went to the local National School: a huge, booming, granite and slate building stranded like a stone ark on the edge of the borough allotments...", n.d.
5. Draft of poem 'A visit to J C Squire', n.d.
6. Prose piece with first line: 'The sea inspired poets long before Ulysses and Noah were sailors…' presumably introducing a poetry competition for verses inspired by the sea [NB this is not the introduction written for Causley's anthology 'The Puffin Book of Salt-Sea Verse', 1978], n.d.
7. File of papers relating to re-publication of 'Hands to Dance' (1951) as 'Hands to Dance and Skylark' (1979). Contains: research notes on naval history, draft forewords, draft contents page, annotated copy typescript of short story 'Skylark', manuscript drafts of 'Skylark' with various conclusions, and photocopy of portion of short story 'Looking for Annie' [published in 'Cornish Short Stories' (1976), previously published as 'Looking for Fanny', 'Hands to Dance', (1951)], c 1979
8. File containing 'final version' annotated typescript of foreword and contents page of 'Hands to dance and Skylark', c 1979
9. Proof dustjacket of 'Hands to Dance and Skylark' (1979). Also duplicates, c 1979 |