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21. Add MS 88907/5/2

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Title:
M J T Tambimuttu: Various Pamphlet Publications (by others)
Scope & Content:
Patricia Ledward, Over the Edge (Resurgam Younger Poets, Number Two); Douglas Gibson, Song in Storm (Resurgam Younger Poets, Number Four); Opus, issue 12 (Autumn, 1942); as two loose folding sheets, poems by Comrade (ci-devant Prince) Bobowski, Geoffrey Johnson, Charles Maurras, and D S Savage; a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1941-1945
Extent:
1 file

22. Add MS 88907/6/3/1

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Title:
Decorative Printed Advertisements for Various London Tradesmen
Scope & Content:
Copies of decorative 18th century trade cards of various London tradesmen, printed one or more to a sheet, including John Edwards (collier); Thomas Berry (leather cloggs), Garnham Edwards (silk clothing); Robert Legg (undertaker); Thomas Edwards ('asses milk'); William Conanay (lamps, lanthorns a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1945
Extent:
1 item

23. Add MS 88907/6/3/3

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Title:
P&O Ferries Luggage Labels
Scope & Content:
Two labels for J Tambimuttu marked 'P&O Cabin' (Cabin 307), and two labels for J Tambimuttu marked 'P&O Hold', both for the ship S S Canton. Also, two labels for 'P&O S N Co' London to Colombo, and a smaller baggage label for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1949]
Extent:
1 item

24. Add MS 88907/2/2/4

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Title:
M J T Tambimuttu: Miscellaneous Prose
Scope & Content:
(1) Two Poetry London editorials in draft: 'Second Letter' and 'Eleventh Letter', published, respectively, in Poetry London, 1:2 (1939) and 3:11 (1947). (2) Notes (manuscript, in Tambimuttu's hand on PL embossed notepaper) with the heading 'Why I have chosen Shakuntala', together with a comple...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1949
Extent:
1 item

25. Add MS 88907/4/1

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Title:
M J T Tambimuttu: Contract between Tambimuttu and Faber and Faber Limited (Poetry in Wartime)
Scope & Content:
Memorandum of Agreement between M J Tambimuttu ('the Editor'), of 18 Oakley Gardens, London, SW3, and Faber and Faber Limited ('the publishers'), of 24 Russell Square, London WC1, 'concerning an anthology made by the Editor, provisionally entitled An Anthology of War Time Poetry'. Signed by Geoff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 file

26. Add MS 88907/1/2

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Title:
M J T Tambimuttu: General Personal Correspondence B-D
Scope & Content:
(1) Audrey Beecham, Oxford University Agricultural Research Institute, to Tambimuttu (manuscript, without date [1941?]). (2) Two Invoices (1947 and 1948) and an Inventory of furniture and various items stored for Tambimuttu by Bishop & Sons' Depositories Ltd, Belgrave Road, London. (3) Re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939?-1948
Extent:
1 file

27. Add MS 88907/1/1

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Title:
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondence with Family and Friends in Sri Lanka
Scope & Content:
(1) Letter (manuscript, 1 August, 1946) from Bernard [first name], a contemporary of Tambimuttu, who has recently met (Major) Anthony Dickins when he was stationed in Sri Lanka. (2) Brief copy letter (21 January, 1948) to Ralph Deranayagala, of Colombo, referring to John Strachey. (3) Letter (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1939]-1948
Extent:
1 file

28. Add MS 88907/2/2/3

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Title:
M J T Tambimuttu: 'Paris Letters'
Scope & Content:
Four pieces of anecdotal journalism under the general heading of 'Paris Letters' (typescript) recording at least two business trips to Paris, incorporating colourful reference to many artists and writers and to the impact of post-war Parisian culture: (1) 'Letter Home by Thurairajah Tambimuttu'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1947]-[1949]
Extent:
1 item

29. Add MS 88907/2/2/1

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Title:
M J T Tambimuttu: Out of This War
Scope & Content:
Draft material (typescript) for Tambimuttu, Out of This War (London: The Fortune Press, 1940).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 item

30. Add MS 88907/1/4

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Title:
M J T Tambimuttu: General Personal Correspondence R-W
Scope & Content:
(1) Letter (typescript, 30 August, 1944) from Private Pauline Rawdon-Smith, requesting clothing coupons. (2) Correspondence (1948) with John Russell, St Edmunds Hall, Oxford referring to arrangements for a talk to the Oxford University Poetry Society, and to increasing the Poetry London subscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941-1948
Extent:
1 file