Papers relating to the Festival souvenir programme
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Contains correspondence and papers chiefly relating to advertising in the Festival souvenir programme, printing costs, and layout and content such as poets’ biographies. Includes correspondence with the participating poets, and some proofs and mock-ups.
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the planning, organisation, management, and content of the Festival. Includes budgets, proposed programmes, and a report on the Festival. Also includes correspondence with the organisers of the Commonwealth Arts Festival.
Contains correspondence discussing poets who might be invited to participate, correspondence with poets invited to write new works for the Festival, and proforma contract letters (some signed) returned by the poets. Correspondents include Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Peter Porter, Randolph S...
Contains correspondence relating to a press conference and festival parties, correspondence relating to an article for New Society by Eric W. White, Assistant Secretary of the Society, and a Festival programme leaflet.
Contains papers relating to the organisation, running, budget, and content of the festival. Correspondents include Ted Hughes, Patrick Garland, Roy Fuller, John Lehmann, the BBC, and the Greater London Council. Includes correspondence relating to recording and filming the festival. Also includes ...
Contains correspondence, much of it of Ted Hughes, discussing potential participants. Correspondents include Al Alvarez, Patrick Kavanagh, and W. H. Auden. Also contains proforma contract letters sent to staff and participants in the festival setting out the event they were being invited to parti...