Notebook ‘Big value jotter’. Includes notes on Françoise Malherbe and Jean Poulhan, on the 1992 conference at El Escorial, short poem ‘Sputnik’, poem ‘Scotland in 1919’, poem ‘Maritime Provence’. The poems all published in Selected poems.
Hard cover notebook inscribed ‘May 17th 1992, with all my love dearest David for our seventeenth wedding anniversary’. Includes notes for a paper in Manchester on Berger and Sontag, contents of reading at Farringford, 27 Jun 1992, draft obituary of Stanley William Hayter. Mostly blank
Photocopy of Roman Balcony, and Other Poems (London: Lincoln Williams, 1932). Inscribed to Alan Clodd, with a list of poems to be reprinted from the collection. The leaves of poems which were submitted to Hampshire County Library in 1983 in an application by Gascoyne to be writer in residence hav...
Photocopy of Man’s life is this meat (London: Parton Press, 1936). Most of these poems were published in Collected Poems, and photocopies of earlier publication of some of the poems are at Add MS 89011/2/7.
Photocopy of the cover of Poems, 1937-1942 (London: P.L. Editions, 1943), the cover being designed by Graham Sutherland, with typescripts and photocopies comprising printer’s copy for the French translation, Miserere (Paris: Granit, 1984). The French edition includes a preface by Kathleen Raine, ...
Printer’s copy for Collected Poems (London: Oxford University Press, 1965). Typescripts and photocopies of printed leaves, with a typewritten introduction, by the compiler, Robin Skelton, all foliated and annotated by the printer. In an envelope addressed to The Official Solicitor.
A file of carbon copies of typescripts inscribed ‘DG’s typescript of OUP Collected Poems’, probably the 1988 revised edition, some texts being inserted in folded sheets inscribed ‘Remove your hat. 2nd copy’, ‘Comtemp. P & P, 1,2,6,7. 2nd copy’, ‘Holderlin’s madness. 2nd copy’, ‘Poems 1937-42....
Photocopies of pp. i-xix, 1-35 of Selected Poems (London: Enitharmon Press, 1994) and of The Entrance to that valley stands alone (London: Enitharmon Press, 2001).