Notebooks of drafts of early poems and some prose. Many of these poems were chosen for the two collections made but not published, papers for which are at Add MS 88936/1/11. Autograph.
Papers for poems prepared for publication in Lee's three volumes of poems published in book form for the first time. Most of the poems had previously appeared in periodicals and/or in the two selections of poems made in 1942, and these earlier texts are in Add MS 88936/1/11.
Papers for 'Land at war' and other work for the Ministry of Information. In 1943 Lee was asked by the Ministry of Information to prepare a publication on agriculture's effort in the war, and also undertook other work for the ministry. Some of the notebooks of poems at Add MS 88936/1/1-10 also co...
Papers for 'We made a film in Cyprus'. An account written by Lee with Ralph Keene of their visit to Cyprus to make the film 'Cyprus is an island' for Greenpark Productions. Includes an imperfect typescript, with autograph amendments, of the book, published London: Longman, 1947, a revised typewr...
Papers for 'A Rose for winter; travels in Andalusia'. An account of Lee's visit to Spain with his wife in 1951 to 1952. Two broadcast talks in 1952 formed the basis of two of the chapters (see Add MS 88936/2/148), and another was pre-published as 'Sevilliana' in the London Magazine, vol. 1, no. ...
Papers for 'Cider with Rosie'. Lee's memoir of his early life in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire. Two autograph drafts and one typewritten draft, all with several reworkings of the text and further amendments, which continue through proof stages. With correspondence with publishers relating ...
Papers for 'As I walked out one midsummer morning'. An account of Lee's travels from his home village to London and on to Spain at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Autograph and typewritten drafts, proof copies, correspondence relating to the text and drafts of scripts for televised and filme...
Papers for 'I can't stay long'. An anthology of Lee's autobiographical, travel and journalistic writings. Autograph and typewritten texts of the essays and articles in the collection, with printed cuttings, of the original articles, notes and publications used in the compilation of the articles ...
Notes for 'Two women'. An account with Lee's own photographs of Lee's wife Katherine Francesca and their daughter Jesse Frances. Notes, drafts and correspondence. Lee's marriage certificate gives his wife's names as Catherine Francesca, although her birth certificate shows her as Katherine Franc...
Papers for 'A Moment of war'. An account of Lee's activities in the Spanish Civil War. Autograph and typewritten drafts, proof copies, correspondence relating to the text and drafts of scripts for a dramatised version.