| Description | One large red A4 notebook. Labelled Jun 1992.
Contains drafts of the following poems: untitled poem beginning "I won't go home by the churchyard...", 'St Neot', 'Lie-abed, loafer', 'Leonardo', 'Climb the stair, Katie', untitled poem beginning "There was once was a man // Called Tim Tom Ted..." [published as "There once was a man called Knocketty Ned"], 'I saw a saw-doctor', 'Daniel Gumb', 'Dandelion', 'Hazel', ' Mermaid at Zennor', 'Giglet's market', untitled poem beginning "Mrs Bessie Busybody...", 'St Jerome', 'Lion', 'A sailor's alphabet', 'Under the hawthorn' and 'A visit to Van Gogh'
Draft prose of story 'The merrymaid of Zennor' and research notes
Draft poems as follows: 'Foss' (also titled 'In San Remo') and 'Stanley Spencer's A village in heaven'
Draft prose piece titled 'Voices' about Causley's experiences of poetry at primary school in the 1920s
Draft poetry and research notes for play 'St Jerome'
Draft poems as follows: 'First' beginning "Walk // This was before I could walk. // Three cottages of slate and stone // Carelessly shunter together...", 'Actacon and Artemis', A first step', 'Baptism'
Draft prose piece about Laurie Lee and his poetry and travels
Draft poem 'Tom Penney', 'In a junior school', and untitled beginning "All Causleys come from here my best aunt would say..." ['Ancestors']
Volume also contains other unidentified or untitled drafts and notes on rhymes and names, and list of poems from 'Here we go round the round house' / 'All day Saturday' and a list of additions from 'New Collected' 1997
Enclosed: brochure about Asciano, Siena, Italy, n.d. copy typescript letter from Causley about revisions to 'Collected poems 1951-1997' n.d., attaching annotated typescripts of the following poems: 'Hymn', 'Tavistock goose fair', 'A visit to Van Gogh', 'Ancestors', 'In Asciano', 'In a junior school (to Ted Hughes)'; manuscript draft of 'Ancestors'; typescripts of different versions of 'The merrymaid of Zennor' with photocopy of letter from Causley, May 1994 to editor; letter from Nick Gammage to Causley enclosing proof pages for contribution to 'The epic poise: a celebration of Ted Hughes', Feb 1989, with annotated typescripts of poem 'In a junior school'; manuscript draft of untitled poem beginning "The hedge-faced farmers wear // Somehow, an English air...", n.d.; typescripts of the following poems: 'A baptism', 'Ancestors', 'In Asciano'; manuscript draft letter to Mary ? at publishers, n.d. with manuscript drafts for poem 'Ancestors'; manuscript draft piece to accompany the poem 'Figgie Hobbin', n.d. |