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  <dc:title>Notebook containing draft poems for 'Figure of Eight' (1969) and 'The young man of Cury' (1991)</dc:title>
  <dc:description>One small black hardback notebook inscribed in pencil 3/3.

Contains the following poem drafts, which mostly appear in 'Figure of Eight' (first lines also given where title of poem unclear): 'The adventure of Jack Strop', 'St Martha and the Dragon', 'Young Edgcumbe', 'John Polruddan', 'Ave Maria' and others. Also includes rough notes on history, and notes for the contents of 'All round the town' (including 'Eagle House', 'Quarterjacks', 'Evening Harald', 'Old swimming baths', 'A magpie sat on a sycamore', 'St Thomas Bridge and fishing', 'Riverside', 'Bishop Branscombe', 'Angel Hill) [some of these were published in 'The young man of Cury'].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>undated</dc:date>
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