Three letters: air letter (23 March, 1945) from Sgt Frost to Peter Wells (remarks on Italian culture); letter (15 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu to Frost, retaining poems for publication from those received from Wells; letter (19 November, 1945), Frost to Tambimuttu, thanking him for his interest.
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Hall, J[ohn] C[live]
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Poems (typescript), as J C Hall: 'Glastonbury Tor'; 'Curtains'; 'Sonnet' ('Braving the furnace of desire…'); 'Ode Above Winchester'; 'Postscript for Spain' (printed, from Kingdom Come, Summer 1940). Poems (typescript) as John Hall: 'The Fairs'; 'No Mercy'; 'The Wood'.
Letter (typescript, 30 August, 1944) from Smith to Tambimuttu, asking if he would like more drawings, and requesting 'an enormous cheque' and proofs. Poems (typescript): 'A Shooting Incident'; 'God and Man'; 'A Humane Materialist at the Burning of a Heretic'; 'The Roman Road' (struck-through i...
Three poems (typescript): 'After France'; 'The Rats' Testament' (extract); and 'Poem' ('There are only two or three…'), published Poetry London, 2:8 (1942), pp. 67-68.
Letter (manuscript, 25 October, [1944]) from Ewart to Tambimuttu, with signed manuscript of 'Sonnet' ('September, with its mists and fitful rain…'), dated 25 September, 1942. Four poems dated 1942: 'Love and War' (manuscript); on the verso, another manuscript of 'Sonnet' ('September, with its m...
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Hamburger, Michael
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Correspondence: Hamburger to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 12 October, 1944); Hamburger to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 30 November, 1944); Hamburger to Tambimuttu (manuscript, without date), enclosing a poem by R J Cohen; Hamburger to Michael Swan (air letter, 24 July, 1945); Hamburger to Tambimuttu (man...
Letter (manuscript, 30 August, 1943) from Lewis to Tambimuttu, requesting the return of poems by her husband (Alun Lewis): 'The first lot rejected by you has not yet turned up. Have you been able to trace them? Let me know very soon as I am waiting for them to complete a second book of poems for...