| Description | Folder of assorted poetry manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies and envelopes listed as follows by title [where known] or first line. Folder contains list of last poems written at Windswept and a notebook of poetry notes:
'Lines written from tropical Siberia', 1983; 'A man of purpose', 1974; 'News from the abstract jungle', 1983 [attached to letter from editor of Sunday Telegraph]; 'Carol for a wartime child', n.d.; 'Vacances 1939', ? 1939; 'Lines to the landlord of the Star', 1955; 'Little Lulu's loo', n.d.; 'For Diane's birthday 12.III.'76', 1976; 'Ever dearest', 1986; 'Van Dyke Woodworm Maw, art agent sponsors a young painter', n.d.; 'Another injustice to Ireland', n.d. and 'Dies irae', 1972 [clipped together and marked 'IRA']; ' What a shrink thinks', n.d.; 'Tools of a maker's trade', 1983; 'Forces that set fire to words', 1980 and 1984; 'Time', 1979; 'The short-wave syndrome', 1980; 'Two paths, crossing', n.d.; 'Lands with no more children', 1982; 'A little lower than the angels', 1982; 'Female doge', n.d. [manuscript of author's will on reverse, 1981]; 'The flaw', n.d.; 'Street-change', n.d.; 'Song before sunset', n.d.; 'The ghost of which Lord Quarantine? ', n.d.; 'Epistle to St. Paul', n.d.; 'A song of late love', n.d.; 'The reek of sanctity', n.d.; 'Thermopylae', revised 1982; 'Transplants', n.d.; 'Stone age, upturned', n.d. [signed Alexander Cristall] ; 'Dehydrated water, nurse!', n.d.; 'The cloud', n.d.; 'Procession into nowhere', 1973 [with accompanying letter to 'Laity']; 'The wooing of Willie Treweek', n.d.; '"Only my own work is sold here…"', n.d.; 'Hunting-song, 1984; 'Downalong the slip-way', 1980; 'Dynamite - and did!', n.d.; 'Another injustice to Ireland', n.d.; 'Chance-medley', n.d.; 'The North Riding', n.d.; '-"that all genes are created equal"..', n.d.; 'The parson is perplexed', 1977; 'Names', n.d.; 'Wanted-mentaliser for vocal refrain', n.d.; 'Chance encounter at long rock', n.d.; 'The reek of sanctity', n.d.; 'Absent to forgive', 1970; 'When Handel died the only notices', n.d.; 'A most imposing person', n.d.; 'For Valerie',1979; 'What a shrink thinks', n.d.; 'Ballad of the missionary position', 1977; 'The voyage', n.d.; 'There are days..', n.d.; 'Twilight of the twenties', 1976; 'New light on the dark ages', n.d.; 'Sardonics' heading for three poems as follows: 'Grandpa's looking wistful', n.d.; 'Roses, roses, everywhere', n.d.; 'Zip goes a million', n.d.; 'The voyage', n.d.; 'And Lalage was long ago..', n.d.; 'Absent to forgive', 1971; 'Brooding through the middle watch', n.d.; 'Legs' 1981 ['At tether's end on reverse']; 'Love, in self-regard', 1975; 'Lands with no more children', 1982; 'Lines written from tropical Siberia', n.d.; 'Another threat to Dartmoor', n.d.; 'I was pole-axed at a stroke' [first line], n.d.; 'Solomon at Windswept',1974; 'Alan, you are here tonight', [first line],n.d.; 'Dekker', n.d.; 'Pitfall' poetry workings, n.d. |