Poems (typescript): 'Autumn Journal' (Section Two); 'Troll's Courtship'; 'Bottleneck' (signed); 'Convoy' (signed); 'First Chorus from the Hippolytus of Euripides'; 'Twelfth Night' (signed); 'Place of a Skull' (signed). The latter two poems were published in Poetry London, 4:13 (1948). 'Bottlene...
Poems (typescript): 'Balloons Over Glasgow'; 'To Make a Bridge'; 'By implication of the physical…' [fragment, final stanzas of 'Flight of the Margarine']. Also, a review (typescript) of Stephen Spender, The Still Centre (1939).
Letter (typescript, 2 April, 1941) from Mair to the Editor, complaining of 'this pretentious cult of the obscure'. Annotated for publication ('Lady speaks her mind').
Correspondence: H B Mallalieu to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 11 September, 1942); Mrs M G Mallalieu (manuscript, 29 May, 1944), on behalf of her husband; Tambimuttu to Mrs Mallalieu (1 November, and 14 November, 1945), retaining poems for publication. Also, 'Excerpt from a Play' (typescript) by H ...
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Manning, Christina
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Letter (typescript, 4 June, 1942) from Manning to the Editor, with the following poems (under the name Christina Grey): 'Hush who hears?'; 'Down our street'; 'Torn'; 'Thanks be to God'; 'Flushed!'; 'Stay at home Joan!'.
Letter (typescript, 8 August, 1945) from Mapplebeck, offering the manuscript (not present) of a 'small book of poems'. Unfavourable reply (7 September, 1945) - 'paper shortage'.
Letter (typescript, 11 July, 1943) from Maranz to Tambimuttu, offering prosework entitled 'Correspondences', with two extracts ('Fifth Letter' and 'Sixth Letter').
Two letters (typescript, 29 April and 10 August, 1943) to Tambimuttu, referring to poems submitted, to having 'discovered' with Stephen Spender the artist Cecil Collins, and enquiring about German translation work. Poems (typescript, all translated by E O Sigler): 'Bartholemew'; 'Peter'; 'Lond...
Letters (typescript and manuscript, 28 August, and 2 October, 1945) from Marsden to the Editor, submitting poems (not present). With unfavourable reply (26 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu.