Letter (manuscript, Travellers Club, Pall Mall, 10 March, 1947), Scott to Tambimuttu, enquiring about progress on the publication of a monograph on John Tunnard. [Although listed for publication, the volume did not appear.]
Two poems (typescript): 'Sea-dirge' (dated December, 1940), and 'Poem in Time of Search', both published in Keidrych Rhys (ed.), Poems from the Forces (1941), pp. 115-117, and both published in Tambimuttu (ed.), Poetry in Wartime (1942), pp. 157-159. Letter to Tambimuttu (West Africa, 1942) for...
Letter (6 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu to Scurfield, returning 'The Worcestershire Cow' (not present). Also, the following poems (typescript): 'Song: The Bitter Mangoes'; 'Green Sandbags'; 'A growing self-detachment…'; 'For the tragedy…'; 'Song' ('I remember, I remember...').
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Seaman, H Broadberry
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Letter (typescript, 10 July, 1945) from Seaman to Tambimuttu, submitting poems (not present), together with an unfavourable reply (12 September, 1945).
Two letters (typescript, 4 March and 4 August, 1945) from Seaton to the Editor, submitting poems (not present), together with a reply (19 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu, retaining a poem 'for possible inclusion in the Services number of PL'.
Letter (typescript, 26 June, 1948), from Shattuck (Paris Editor, Yale Literary Review) to the Editor, responding to a review by George Barker ('Fat Lady at the Circus') of Aiken, Shapiro and Thompson, Poetry London, 4:13 (1948), pp. 38-39, in which Barker suggested that 'American poetry does not ...
Correspondence: Sheldon (from Kenya) to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 17 November, 1945), concerned at lack of response to poems previously submitted and enclosing a new poem (manuscript) entitled 'Comrades, This Wonderment (for Michael Foot MP)'; Tambimuttu to Sheldon (28 November, 1945), unable to ...