Letter (manuscript, 9 April, 1941) from Stocks to the Editor, with two poems (typescript): 'Thoughts in a Sick ward' and 'The Seed of War'. Both poems published in Keidrych Rhys (ed.), More Poems from the Forces (1943), pp. 275, 277.
Correspondence, concerning Swanwick, The Cross Purposes (Editions Poetry London, 1945), described in the first letter as 'a novelette I have written about wicked ladies and worldly gentlemen': Swanwick to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 4 May, 1943); Swanwick to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 30 May, 1944); Sw...
Letters: Symons to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 28 July, and 4 August, 1943). Poem (typescript): 'Whitsun, 1940'. Also, a review (typescript) of volumes by Brown, Shapiro and Treece, published as 'Two American, One English' in Poetry London, 3:11 (1947), pp. 68-70.
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Taylor, Geoffrey James
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Letter (manuscript, without date), from Taylor to the Editor, submitting a single poem ('I am a youth of seventeen, but please do not let that deter you'). Poem (typescript): 'Autobiography'.
Two poems (typescript): 'Love in the Asylum'; and 'Last night I dived my beggar arm…'. Published, respectively, in Poetry London, 1:6 (1941) and 2:9 (1943).
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...
Letter (manuscript, without date), from (Mrs) Thomas to the Editor, enquiring about producing a small volume of her poems. With a negative reply (14 September, 1945) - 'paper shortage'.
A single poem ('Lament for the Sleep-walker'), as a Poetry London page proof and as a printed page from another publication (on the verso, struck-through, 'The Unnatural History of Peru' by Kenneth Patchen).
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Thompson, James Alan
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Correspondence concerning poems submitted: Thompson to Tambimuttu (typescript, from Ceylon, 11 November, 1942), where Thompson has met people who know Tambimuttu: 'Through Rajo Coomarasawamy, I hope to meet some of your relations in the near future'; J Thompson (father) to Tambimuttu (typescript...