Stationery Office notebook including notes on Norway and on agriculture and twelve short prose paragraphs possibly forming the basis for a love poem. Autograph.
This section includes some background material, notes and correspondence, including approval of his verses commemorating the Red Army spoken by Laurence Olivier at the Royal Albert Hall in 1944 (see also Add MS 88936/1/21 and Add MS 88936/6/8), the text of 'Wartime agriculture, chapter 11, Diggi...
Autograph drafts. There are usually two substantially complete drafts of each chapter except the last. On the reverse of the draft leaves of chapter five are four poems by Lee, one unnamed, the others entitled 'In the desert', 'Boy in ice' and 'Madrigal on the Isis'.