| Description | Notebook 4: Maroon notebook titled 'Verse (September 1953-November 1960), Frances Bellerby'. Contains drafts of:
'Uncertain?', 'Methodically glancing through a finished diary', 'April', 'The estuary', 'A patient in a chronic ward considers this, that, the other', 1953
'The singing shell', 'Might it be?', 'August night', 'The pity of Christmas', 1955
'Old', 'A prayer in spring', 'I was not there', 'Certain uncertainties of a June night', 'The deserter', 'Host', 'A burial', 'Old' (loose), 'The strange harbour', 'Between snowfalls', 'Mother and son', 'The stone angel and the stone man', 1956
'The counsellors', 'Three voices', 'March evening', 'The hares', 'To one who died old', 'The watcher', 'Son of the house', memorial card to Trevor Blakemore containing draft of 'Uncertain' on reverse, 'Commitment', 'All in the day's work', 'The street', 'The grass', typescript 'Remember without pity', loose draft 'When hare looks up and hawk looks down', two loose pages with 'Impediment', 'Midsummer contact' and fragments, 'The rationalist at Whitsun', 'Nonsense', 'Pilgrim's progress', 1957
'West country November late afternoon', 'The relationship', 'The choice', 'Zany', 'The possible prayer', 'Remember without pity', 'At last', 'The watchers', 'The hunt', 'On falling out of love', 'Word', A double journey of the mind', 'Winter', 'Quis separabit?', 1958
'The choice', 'Take your choice', 'Brothers', 'The margin', 'Ends meet', 'The disappointment of Robert Clayton', 'Blossom', 'Face of grief' (1960), 1959
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