| Description | One small black hardback notebook inscribed in pencil 3/10.
Contains the following poem drafts, which mostly appear in 'Collected poems' (new poems, 1975) and 'Figgie Hobbin' (first lines also given where title of poem unclear): untitled starting "It was at Paddington Station...", ''Quack, said the billy-goat' (including lists of animal noises), 'Jack O'Lent', 'Figgie Hobbin', 'Ramhead and Dodman', 'Life stroke' (also called 'Life story' and 'Autobiography', 'Revisting the Helpston grave of John Clare' (also called 'Helpston'), 'Timothy Trout', 'At Linkinhorne', 'The schoolteacher' and 'The Forest of Tangle'. |