Prose works by Gascoyne, including scripts of broadcasts, and his translations of works by others. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, cuttings and proofs: some of these are photocopies.
Photocopied typescript of ‘Surrealism resurveyed’, an intended update to Gascoyne’s A Short History of Surrealism (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1935). Wanting leaf 11 and all after leaf 25. Typewritten draft introduction to a reprint of A Short History of Surrealism, 1982. Photocopy of introduction ...
Four typewritten drafts, all with manuscript amendments, with a photocopy of the first since that is is wanting its final leaf; production script of the BBC broadcast of 21 Nov 1985, with manuscript amendments; photocopy of the text as published in Resurgence, no. 115 (Mar-Apr 1986); typewritten...
Miscellaneous notes, observations, etc., on small scraps of paper, all undated. With two photocopied leaves of recollections of the Second World War in London, some in verse, and of life in London in the 1930s, both from unidentified works and possibly not by Gascoyne.
Reviews of books and of art exhibitions written by Gascoyne. Mostly press-cuttings (some being photocopies) and with some typewritten original texts. Mostly from The New English Weekly and later from The Times Literary Supplement. Some of these later published in Selected prose, 1934-1996.
Production script of ‘David Gascoyne in retrospect’, compiled and introduced by Douglas Cleverdon, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 11 Oct 1978, with Gascoyne reading ‘Elegiac improvisation on the death of Paul Eluard’ and an extract from his ‘Journal, 1937-1939’