Papers relating to poetry collection 'Johnny Alleluia' 'Johnny Alleluia' was Causley's fourth collection of poetry, following 'Farewell, Aggie Weston', Survivor's Leave' and 'Union Street'. It was first published in 1961 by Rupert Hart-Davis. 1. Final publisher dummy proof, with Hart-Davis compliment slip 2. Limited edition presentation copy [with duplicate] of poem 'Johnny Alleluia', 15 copies printed by the Heron Press, n.d. 3. Fine typescript, n.d. 4. Galley proofs with manuscript annotations, n.d. 5. 'Final version' typescript with manuscript annotations, n.d. 6. Fine manuscript versions of poems 'Innocent's song', 'At the British war cemetery, Bayeux', 'I am the great sun' and 'Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience' and annotated typescripts of poems 'Prinz Eugen' and 'Healing a lunatic boy', n.d. 7. Small black notebook containing drafts of the following poems for 'The Alleluia Boy; untitled poem beginning 'As once I walked with Johnnie // Where now I walk with you...", 'Innocent's Song', untitled poem beginning "Why burns the holly on the bough...", 'Mother, get up and unbar the door', 'The ballad of Charlotte Dymond', 'For an ex-Far East prisoner of war', 'Miss Elliott', 'Bible Story', 'Christ heals the lunatic boy', 'Christopher Beer', 'I met an old comrade', 'T Gibbins', 'Sonnet to the holy vine', 'Prinz Eugen', 'O Billy, do you hear that bell', n.d. 8. Small black notebook containing drafts of the following poems: 'Witness was awakened by a scream' (also called 'Lying within my island', 'Les Saintes-Maries', 'Song for Guy Fawkes' Day', 'Johnny Alleluia', 'Sailor in the cinema', 'Hymn to St Dunstan', 'Captain Arrab' (also called 'Major Cain'), 'Actaeon', 'The sentinel's story', 'Three sailors', 'A certain man', 'n.d. Also general notes and jottings at rear of volume 9. Small maroon notebook containing jottings of draft handwritten complete and incomplete poems, including many from 'Johnny Alleluia' (1961) including 'Prinz Eugen', 'Early in the morning', 'The healing of the lunatic boy', 'Le cimitière marin', 'At the poetry reading', 'Master and pupil', 'Never take sweets from a stranger', 'My friend Maloney', 'El Cristo de Bristol', 'Christ at the cheesewring', 'Emblems of the Passion', 'Grantchester', 'A visit to St. Remy' (many are untitled), n.d. 10. One blue ring-bound shorthand notebook labelled '9' on white label on top left-hand corner of front cover. Contains the following poem drafts (first lines also given where title of poem unclear): 'Prinz Eugen', 'Early in the morning', 'The healing of the lunatic boy', 'Le Cimetiere Marin', unidentified untitled poems', 'At the poetry reading' and 'Christ at the cheesewring', n.d. 11. One blue BBC short-hand notebook containing: notes on a visit to Jack Clemo, May Day, folk ballads and traditional songs; draft of poem 'At the poetry reading'; notes on the Cristo de Bristol; drafts of poem 'Instruments of the Passion", beginning "Here, you siad in that well-known, well-bound well-found classical voice..."; draft of poems 'A visit to Saint-Remy', 'Lying within my island', 'Les-Saintes-Maries, de-la-Mer'; notes on Alan Ross, 'The bonny pit laddie' and other ballads and songs; draft of poem 'Reflections on Guy Fawkes' Day'; notes on St Dunstan and draft poem about St Dunstan beginning "Now, with a thousand summers safe below / I watch with Dunstan the frail flowers of snow..."; draft of untitled poem beginning "Johnny was a tinker...", n.d. c 1961