| Description | Notebook 12: Brown receipt book ('Verse. First drafts'). Contains drafts of:
'When summer transfigured the moon', 'Blessings', 'To the house I knew by heart', 'When summer lay like a cloak', 'I must have all power - men listen', 'There will be no funeral', 'The moor', 'Thirteen', 'Then I stood and cried', 'Know this for a prison', 'Prisoner to write on the blue lines only', 'Needless to say I was alone', 'Prisoners must write on the blue lines only', 'Reasonable questions at various stages of the journey', 'To stare at the staring', 'To have cold so long a time', 'The star is overhead', 'Now and then', 'Once in a life-time', 'The journey must be travelled alone and by night', 'I dreamt that I woke to recognise', 'I was a dreamer then, always expecting' [all at front of volume], n.d.
'Question and answer', 'Under the hill of the holy stone', pp 4232-4233; 'Where had my true self been', 'The chestnut tree', 'In place', 'If I'd asked fewer questions', 'The wildness', 'Since you never came back until now', 'Yes I remember the whole story', 'Why couldn't his mother move?', pp 4244-4264; 'Leaf scrapes, stair creaks', p 4302; 'The shallow September brook', 'It seemed to him', p 4308; 'Judas to Jesus said', p 4329; 'London', p 4347; 'They called her Mrs Tree', p 4349; 'The shape of the August trees', 'Certainty', on loose blue papers, n.d. |