M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Pinsent, Christopher
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Letter (manuscript, 21 March, [1945]) from Pinsent to the Editor, submitting four poems (not present), with annotation in the hand of Nicholas Moore. Letter (27 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu to Pinsent, retaining 'Now the light increases'.
Two letters (manuscript) from Rolf to Tambimuttu: the first letter dated 6 April, 1941, published, in part, in Poetry London, 1:6 (1941) under the heading 'From an Anarchist'; the second letter without date [1941] written on 'finding my letter in print, and my poem not'.
Letter (manuscript, 16 November, 1945) from Rowdon to Tambimuttu, submitting poems ('Now Tambi: I ask you not to lose them, scrap them or forget them') - letter includes passing reference to Lucian Freud,'who seems to know as little as I do here' of poetry in London. With a single poem (typesc...
Letter (manuscript, 21 January, 1943), Snelling to the Editor, enclosing three poems (manuscript): 'Twilight After Rain'; 'Antimalice'; and 'Interlune'. Letter (manuscript, [1943], Snelling to Tambimuttu ('very pleased to meet you on Wednesday May 5th as suggested'), enclosing two further poems...
Letter (manuscript, 25 July, 1941), Stafford to the Editor, submitting poems. Poems (typescript): 'Sleep Before Battle'; 'War in Autumn'; 'Respite'; 'Song of the Exiled Poets'; 'Hermit-Crab'; 'Full Moon'; 'Under Nazi Rule'; 'Night Sky'; 'There are no pedlars now...'; 'Paris - June, 1940'; 'Pari...
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Watkinson, Raymond
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Two poems (typescript): 'A Letter from John'; and 'To Bernard Fairclough: The War Having Begun'. Both poems published in Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 182-184.
Two poems (typescript): 'Eurydike', and 'Portrait'. Also, a letter from Tambimuttu to Wilkins (23 November, 1945), returning the poems (not present) of a Mr Kaiser [Ernst Kaiser, afterwards her husband] as 'too formless'.
Incomplete letter to the Editor (first typescript sheet only, dated 25 July, 1943), discussing pacifism in the light of a review in Poetry London by Stephen Spender of a translation of the 'Bhagavad Gita'. Letter published in Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 261-264.