| Description | One file containing loose neat manuscript poems, as follows:
'Riven night', 'Shadows'/'Whose is the heart?'/'Strange return', 'On the third evening', 'When winter holds the heart', 'The sunrise of the day', 'The dying of a child', 'Singing shell', 'Janus', 'The cave', 'After many years', 'First day of September', 'All Souls' day' and 'A night's shelter from the storm' [typescripts], 'To cut out the heart of the day' and scraps of verse [on back of envelope], 'Running', 'I will not go alone', 'Could I have seen', 'At this distance', 'Arriving at the wrong place', 'Swinging along the road', 'The quarrymen', 'Here', 'The silver sea', 'A night's shelter from the storm', 'The mourners', 'The messengers', 'Three' [contains draft review of 'A croft in Cornwall' on reverse], 'The death of the day', 'The sea', 'An interrupted journey', 'All Souls' Day', 'You've come in the night', 'Absent minded walk by the sea', 'Let no men speak of them unless we have first', incomplete autobiographical prose notes, 'Dying of a child', 'Sight in autumn' [attached to a letter from A Clodd, 18 Sep 1970], 'This day is dying', 'So I recognised nothing, 'Christmas card song', 'Horseman', n.d.
Also the following envelopes containing the following drafts:
A5 brown envelope postmarked Stockport 25 Sep 1974, 'The place, 'The hill track' and 'Slouching on my way', n.d.
RSPB brown envelope labelled 'Handwritten copies', 'Still and always', 'Partners', 'Black bird on the snow', 'It could have been', 'An error corrected', 'Hares', 'Dying of a child', 'Winter anniversary', 'The valley', 'Trespassing', 'A very still night', 'Christmas card song' [typescript], 'Easter holidays', 'Come in out of the night', n.d.
Brown envelope postmarked Launceston, 30 Sep 1973, 'Bereft child's first night', Moon and tree', newspaper clippings of Bellerby's poetry 3 Oct 1972 'Swinging along the road' and 26 Apr 1973 'The first-known' and 'On the third evening', events' leaflet for the National Poetry Centre, London, Sep-Dec 1973 |