Papers relating to poetry collection 'Secret destinations' 'Secret destinations' was originally published in 1984 by Macmillan. It included many poems written whilst Causley was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Australia, at the Footscray Institute of Technology, Victoria, and with the Music Theatre Studio Ensemble at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada. The first edition contained 40 poems, ranging from 'Sorel Point' to 'At Kennet River'. A subsequent edition, 'Secret destinations: selected poems 1977-1988' was published in the USA in 1989. Confusingly, this contains the original 40 poems from the UK edition, as well as poems taken from '21 Poems' [very similar in content to 'Field of Vision'], 'The ballad of Aucassin and Nicolette', 'Kings' children' and 'Early in the morning', totalling 80 poems from 'Sorel Point' to 'Eden Rock'. Notebooks: 1. Small blue and white spiral-bound notebook, containing poems written in Australia [front cover inscribed "Dept of English, Univ. of W.A., June 1983"], including 'Dora', 'Bamboo dance' and 'Ross River', as well as many untitled fragments of poems and miscellaneous jottings, 1983 2. Small black notebook used in Canada and ? Singapore, including draft poems 'At an Arts Centre', 'Ballintoy', 'Sibard's well', 'I love the laurel', 'In Malacca', 'King David', 'Lupin' and 'To my mother and father' as well as many untitled fragments of poems and miscellaneous jottings, 1985-1986 3. Small red notebook containing the following draft poems: 'Bugis Street', 'Seder', 'Tamarack Goose', 'Bridie Wiles', 'Arshile Gorky's Portrait of the artist and his mother', 'Calico', 'In the priory', 'My mother's mother', 'Mawgan Porth', 'The parson and the clerk', 'On the Eastern Front', 'Tavistock Goose Fair', 'The snowman', 'November' and 'Jack the treacle eater'. Also contains many untitled fragments of poems and miscellaneous jottings, 1985 4. Small red notebook [partly blank] used in Canada containing the following draft poems: 'Sorel Point', 'Bankhead', 'Subject', 'Casida of the one wounded by the water' and 'In the Dome Car'. Also contains many untitled fragments of poems and miscellaneous jottings, and early drafts for play 'The burning boy', 1984 5. Red and white spiral-bound short-hand notebook [mainly blank] containing drafts of the following poems: 'Hymn to St Anthony' and 'In the dead heat: Trephina Gorge, Northern Territory', n.d. [1980s] 6. Yellow spiral-bound notebook used in Australia, containing rough notes and drafts of various poems: 'Returning south', 'Friedrich'; 'In a Melborne suburb' (various versions and titles); 'The dancers'; 'At Kennet River'; and 'The fiddler's son'. Also includes these additional poems not included in Secret destinations (1984): untitled poem with first line: 'A town in hock: Near-prisoner of the bald'; and 'At the exhibition of Australian aboriginal art', first line: 'Suddenly, among a bright chatter of spectators', 1981 7. Blue spiral-bound notebook, inscribed "11 July 1980", containing manuscript drafts of the following poems: 'On Launceston Castle', 'Beechworth', 'Grandmother' (also called 'Grannie Hanke'), 'At Kennet River' and 'The fiddler's son'. Also includes poems not included in 'Secret destinations': 'Jennie' (first line: 'Once in the First World War'), untitled poem (first line: 'Steam in the kettle') and 'Sun poem' (first line: 'I saw the sun come out of the sea'), Jul 1980 7a. One small black hardback notebook (W H Smith 1978 diary, labelled '5' on white label on top left-hand corner of front cover), mainly blank, containing the following poem drafts: 'New Year's Eve, Athens' (also called 'Letter from Athens') [published in 'Secret destinations'] and 'Ghost poem' [publication source unknown], 1978 7b. One small black notebook, containing drafts of the following poems: 'On Launceston Castle', 'Beechworth', 'Grannie Hanke', 'At Kennet River', 'Legend' and 'Joseph was a tin man', n.d. Loose manuscripts and typescripts: 8. Two folders labelled "New Poems 1986/7" containing manuscript and typescript drafts of poems included in extended US edition of 'Secret destinations' (1989), 1986-1987. Also includes some reviews filed individiually with each poem. Previously contained in two pink wallet folders labelled files I and II. 9. Folder labelled 'Selected poems, 1976-1988' containing fine typescripts and corrected and uncorrected page proofs of poems included in extended US edition of 'Secret destinations' (1989). Previously contained in blue wallet folder. Also includes letters from American editor David R Godine, 1987-1989, and colour negatives of bust of Causley used on front cover of 'Charles Causley: a tribute from the artists (1987) 10. Manuscript draft of 'Melbourne Suburb', 24 Mar 1981 11. Corrected typescript, returned from David Higham Associates, 11 Oct 1985. Also includes typescript introduction to 'Poetry please!', Jan 1985 12. Corrected typescript drafts of 'At Kennet River', n.d. 13. Corrected typescript, returned from Macmillan, 21 Mar 1988 14. Corrected typescript labelled 'New poems' [previously contained in black plastic wallet], with fine typescript thanking the Poetry Book Society for unspecified prize/recommendation for 'Secret destinations', n.d. 15. One file of scripts for BBC Radio 3 programme 'Secret destinations' (featuring poems from the forthcoming collection) written and selected by Causley, Oct 1983. Also manuscripts and typescripts with manuscript revisions of original poems, c 1983. Also photographs by Robert Tilling for exhibition and reading at Regent Street Polytechnic [now Westminster University], 1985 Proofs and other materials: 16. Galley, uncorrected [first], UK edition, Apr 1984 17. Galley, corrected [first], Apr 1984, UK edition, with letter from editor, 5 May 1984, enclosing proof dust-jacket [2 copies] 18. Dummy proof, uncorrected, UK edition, n.d. [c 1984] 19. Corrected page proof of poem 'Bankhead', c 1984 20. Proof of dust-jacket for USA edition, 1989 21. Photographs by Robert Tilling, Jersey, for exhibition 'Secret destinations', c 1985 22. National Extension College A Level English Literature, 'Secret destinations: workbook', by Andrew Worrall, 1989, with two letters from Worrall, Staffordshire, Oct-Nov 1989 See also EUL MS 50a/LIT/4/14, 15, 23, 27, 28, 35 and 36. c 1981-c 1989