Notebook with 42 short sentences and short diary-like entries from January to July recounting love for an unnamed woman, with poem 'Where balloons bloom like'.
Papers for two selections of poems evidently prepared for publication, as one set of typewritten poems is foliated in pencil and both are prefaced by contents lists. Some of the poems appear in both selections. Contents: The first collection has contents leaves and is foliated by Lee, although...
Poems in the collection from autograph to galley proof stage. Contents: I. Texts of poems included in the collection. Original texts included in the abortive collection are at Add MS 88936/1/11. 1. 'The armoured valley', also here entitled 'When birds do sing'; [1941]. First published in Pen...
Page proof. With a proof of 'River', which was inserted after the page proof stage to occupy two blank pages, and with a covering letter from Barbara Hepworth suggesting that an extra poem be added.
First printed edition, with a few autograph amendments and with the title of the poem 'River Guadalquivir' changed to 'Guadalquivir'. Inscribed 'Author's copy'.
A reprint of 1961 of the published work; 1961. With a photocopy of 'Music in a Spanish town', and a letter from Hilary Sims of the Hogarth Press to Lee enclosing a revised draft of the blurb by C. Day Lewis for Lee's approval.
Papers for 'The Bloom of candles'. Nine of the twelve poems of the collection are typewritten and typewritten copies, with autograph amendments. Most of the poems had been previously published in periodicals and the drafts and texts presented to these periodicals are included here. Contents: ...
Papers for 'My many-coated man'. Typewritten and typewritten copies, with autograph amendments of the poems in the collection, with two autograph versions of 'Boy in frost', later entitled 'Boy in ice'. With correspondence relating to the text of the poems both on their original publication and ...
Papers for poems prepared for publication in the two larger collections of Lee's poems, 'Poems' and 'Selected poems' mostly taken from the three earlier collections, and text of poems published in periodicals but not collected. Contents: I. 'Laurie Lee', in the 'Pocket Poets' series; [1957]-19...
Translations of Lee's poems. Translations into Spanish of several poems, with the original and translated texts and with accompanying letters, by Tomás Ramos Orea (typewritten); a translation of 'Bombay arrival' into Polish by Juliusz Żuławski and a translation of 'Moss-Rose' into German by Agat...