Letters from Savage to Tambimuttu: 16 December, 1938 (typescript); 29 December, 1938 (manuscript); [January, 1939] (typescript), 'sorry that you and [Anthony] Dickins came when we were out'; 9 June, 1943 (typescript). Poetry (typescript): 'On Defeat'; 'Interlude'; 'Absent Creation'; 'Scenario...
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Smith, George Ivan
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Five poems (typescript): 'Poem' ('Tired now from the long bright day…'); 'Seed Cycle'; 'Meditation'; 'a Perfumed Calendar'; 'Love Revealed'. The first four poems published in Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 155-156. 'Tired now the bright long day…' is a variant text of the poem published as 'De...
Two letters from Thomas to Tambimuttu: 26 May, 1944 (manuscript), and 14 October (typescript), submitting the work of a poet 'whose work is rather personal in quality and cannot claim the width of appeal which the more popular of the contemporaries boast'. Poems (typescript): 'The Strange Spr...
Three poems, in typescript ('The world is not more than a looking glass...', 'Three Queens for Arthur When He Died' and 'Vladimeer'), the first two of which were published in Poetry London, 2:9 (1943). (Buckmaster published a short prose work called 'Vladimeer' in Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. ...
Correspondence: envelope (empty, franked 22 July, 1943) addresed to Editor, Poetry (London); Rhys to Tambimuttu (postcard, typescript, franked 12 August, 1945), referring to 'anthology of translations from the Welsh', and enquiring if Editions Poetry London is interested in publishing his collec...
Correspondence concerning the publication of poems by Jose Garcia Villa, for whom Sitwell was acting as an intermediary [although promoted on the back cover of Poetry London, 3:11 (1947), the volume did not appear], and correspondence concerning Sitwell's Preface to Ronald Bottrall, Selected Poe...