Notebook containing unidentified draft poems and notes One blue spiral-bound BBC short-hand notebook. Contains manuscript notes taken from various sources about 19th century swimmers (e.g., Captain Matthew Webb), dictionary definitions, notes about ballad-form and traditions. Also contains notes about and draft sections and fragments for what eventually became the poem ‘A Visit to Stratford’ – plus lists of possible rhymes. Also contains biographical and historical notes connected to the poem ‘Ballad of Jack Cornwell’ (re: Cornwell, his ship H.M.S. Chester, the Battle of Jutland, several British admirals and politicians of the Great War, etc.) – plus draft sections and fragments. Also contains other notes, including on S Maria in Aracodi undated