'A moment of war, by Michael Hirst, based on the novel by Laurie Lee. First draft screenplay'. Dated 30 June 1992. The word 'novel' has been crossed through in pencil. With a single leaf of comment from an unidentified reader. Typewritten.
'Carbon copies. Further revised text foliated from 1 to 261. The file is annotated 'No carbon of chap 1, 2', while there is no text of chapter 2, the file includes a typewritten copy of the text of chapter 1. A typewritten copy of chapter 2 is placed with this file, but it has a different fol...
A former school exercise book of Lee's containing notes on agriculture and the contents list of a proposed book of poems to be entitled 'Life & Guadalquivir' , which became the basis for The Sun my monument; [1942]. Autograph.
Rough typed draft of the whole work. Typewritten, leaves amended in pencil autograph, with copies of these leaves, including several drafts of full and complete leaves, but wanting some leaves.
Letters from John Lehmann relating to Lee's poems being offered to and published by the Hogarth Press and the Folios of New Writing, Penguin New Writing and The Geographical Magazine, also conducted by Lehmann. For other correspondence with John Lehmann when he was running his own publishing ho...
Includes letters from P. J. Kavanagh dated 24 Aug. and 7 Sept. 1982 and on the reverse of a letter dated 11 Nov. 1980, letters from Jill Freud, director of a theatre company performing 'Cider with Rosie', and letters from Alan Hancox of the Cheltenham Festival.
Notes by Lee on the content and title of the book, drafts of the blurb, notes for the jubilee edition and illustrated edition, correspondence with publishers and photocopies of introductions by other editors to school editions. Includes correspondence with John Ward, the illustrator, and with Pe...