| Description | Manuscript and typescript drafts of prose piece 'Childhood Landscapes' about Causley's recollections of the Cornish town of Launceston, Apr 1977.
Begins: "The town squats like an antique stone camel high above the River Tamar that slowly gnaws Cornwall from the body of England: castle on one hump, parish church of St Stephen's on the other, the waters of the little River Kensey scurrying along between...".
File also contains manuscript draft of untitled short prose piece about Riverside, Causley's early home, n.d. Begins: "Apart from seven years in the wartime Royal Navy, and as a student, I've lived all my life in the same small market-town - Launceston, in North Cornwall; lied in the same parish, in fact. But I've no memory of living in the house - Riverside- where I was born...". |