Four typewritten drafts, all with manuscript amendments, with a photocopy of the first since that is is wanting its final leaf; production script of the BBC broadcast of 21 Nov 1985, with manuscript amendments; photocopy of the text as published in Resurgence, no. 115 (Mar-Apr 1986); typewritten...
Articles and essays written between 1933 and 1988. ‘Premier manifeste anglais du surréalisme (fragment)’. Photocopy of article in Cahiers‘Ten proses’. Cutting from The New English Weekly, 14 Sep 1933. ‘Art: Pierre Roy and transcendental realism’, Cutting from The New English Weekly, 5 Jul 1934. ...
Articles and essays written between 1995 and 1998 and undated ‘Geoffrey Grigson: man of principle’, [1985]. Typewritten. Published in Grigson at Eighty (Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1985) and in Selected Prose, 1934-1996. ‘Sketch for autobiographical fragment: Lea’, 1986. A manuscript note. ‘...
Articles and essays in a large volume Issue of Ultima Hora (sep 1978), dedicated to Joan Miró. With an anecdote relating to Miró told to Gascoyne by Roland Penrose, translated into Spanish with a facsimile of the opening of Gascoyne’s note.
Obituaries written by Gascoyne, mostly press-cuttings, but including a draft manuscript of Gavin Ewart’s obituary, and typewritten texts of René Char’s and Eileen Agar’s obituaries. The obituaries of Julian Trevelyan, S. W. Hayter, Salvador Dali, Lawrence Durrell, Eileen Agar and George Barker we...
Reviews of books and of art exhibitions written by Gascoyne. Mostly press-cuttings (some being photocopies) and with some typewritten original texts. Mostly from The New English Weekly and later from The Times Literary Supplement. Some of these later published in Selected prose, 1934-1996.
Translations by Gascoyne from the French of prose writings, arranged in order of the names of the original authors. Contents: André Breton. ‘What is Surrealisim?’ A photocopy of a reprint of the original article of 1936 in an unidentified work with the running title ‘Consciousness and confusion’...
Production script of ‘David Gascoyne in retrospect’, compiled and introduced by Douglas Cleverdon, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 11 Oct 1978, with Gascoyne reading ‘Elegiac improvisation on the death of Paul Eluard’ and an extract from his ‘Journal, 1937-1939’