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RepositorySpecial Collections Archives (GB 0029)
Ref NoEUL MS 50a/LIT/4/39
Date1956-c 1963
LevelFile
Extent1 folder
TitleBundle containing assorted literary papers (poetry drafts, short story 'The Deya Berry', review proofs and articles, broadcasting papers etc)
Creator NameCausley; Charles; 1917-2003; author, teacher and broadcaster
DescriptionOne green hardback folder containing assorted papers, including as follows:

1. Annotated typescript for poem 'At the poetry reading', n.d.

2. Notes by A L Rowse on preparation for unspecified television broadcast by Causley, n.d.

3. Proof of Causley review of 'The uses of literacy: aspects of working-class life' by Richard Hoggart, London Magazine, 73, n.d.

4. Proof of Causley review of 'Collected poems', William Plomer, London Magazine, 14, n.d.

5. Programme for evening of poetry 'Every changing season' including work of Causley, 1960

6. Photograph of portrait of Jack Clemo by Lionel Miskin, 1959

7. Programme of 'One to another' [lyric revue featuring work by Causley], Lyric Hammersmith, London, n.d.

8. Proof of review by Causley of 'An experiment in education' by Sibyl Marshall, The Listener, Apr 1963

9. Proof of review by Causley of non-fiction, The New Statesman, 11, n.d.

10. Typescript of review by Causley of 'My dear time's waste, by Brocard Sewell, n.d.

11. Typescript of review by Causley of 'Songs of a sourcough' by Robert Service and 'Songs of the high north' by Robert Service, n.d.

12. Manuscript notes on reading of Causley poems, n.d.

13. Notes and correspondence relating to BBC broadcast 'Frankly speaking' on Sir Richard Acland, presented by Causley, 1963

14. Manuscript and typescript with manuscript annotations of review by Causley of unspecified educational work by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, n.d. [? 'Teacher', 1963]

15. Manuscript and typescript with manuscript annotations of review by Causley of 'New poems, 1962, APEN anthology of contemporary poetry', edited by Patricia Beer, Ted Hughes and Vernon Scannell, 1962

16. Manuscript and typescripts with manuscript annotations of untitled prose piece by Causley on Launceston, beginning "In the beginning, of course, there was no such place as Cornwall. For me, the world turned on Launceston, the sea-green and slate grey market town perched on a crag and slithering down to a glittering valley where monks in gowns as black as bibles once fished and prayed and tended the lepers...", n.d.

17. Fine typescript of review by Causley of 'The owl in the tree' by Anthony Thwaite, n.d.

18. Fine typescript of review by Causley of 'Poetry in the elementary classroom' by Flora J Arnstein, n.d.

19. Fine typescript of review by Causley of 'A wealth of poetry' by Winifred Hindley and John Betjeman, n.d.

20. Fine typescript of untitled prose piece ['The good Englishman'], written to accompany ballad 'Johnny Alleluia' in the magazine 'Town', beginning "Apart from the war, I've lived all my life in a small town just inside Cornwall...", 1963. Also includes correspondence with editor.

21. Bundle of draft poem manuscripts and typescripts, annotated, for the following: 'Fable', 'A short life of Athendorus', 'Letter to Old Grog' and 'A treatise on education' (also called 'Live and learn', n.d.

22. Manuscripts and typescripts of 'The Deya Berry', a short story beginning "I used to think that my most memorable shoregoing experience during the war woudl be going into the Three Kangaroos Bar in Adelaide, ordering two pints, putting an English pound on the counter and getting, in exchange, two schooners of onion beer, an Australian pound-note, and half-a crown...", n.d.

23. Manuscript and typescript of prose piece on [Thomas] Hardy and William Barnes, presumably written as a preface for a new edition of Barnes' poems, n.d.

24. Typescript cover page of 'Hands to dance and Skylark', n.d.
FormatManuscript
LanguageEnglish
AccessStatusOpen
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