M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondence about Keith Douglas
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Poems by Douglas, and correspondence about him. Poems: 'The Prisoner' (typescript); 'The Offensive' (typescript); 'The Knife' (typescript); 'Words' (typescript); 'Song' ('Do I venture away too far...') as typescript, and also as a signed manuscript on 'Middle East RAC Base Depot' letterhead, ...
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Gardiner, Charles Wrey
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Letter (manuscript, 9 January, 1945) from Gardiner to Tambimuttu, including comments on opportunities to meet socially ('Betty's party'). Poem (typescript) by Gardiner: 'Poem for Tambi'. Three brief letters from Tambimuttu to Gardiner (16 July, 7 November, 1945, and 5 March, 1946) referring to: p...
Prose (typescript): 'A Disturbed Environment'. Poetry (typescript): 'Children' and 'Explanation of the Sun to a Child', the latter published in Poetry London, 2:9 (1943). Also (printed), 'The Upflung Appeal, Bawl of the Upturned Funnel'.
Letters from Savage to Tambimuttu: 16 December, 1938 (typescript); 29 December, 1938 (manuscript); [January, 1939] (typescript), 'sorry that you and [Anthony] Dickins came when we were out'; 9 June, 1943 (typescript). Poetry (typescript): 'On Defeat'; 'Interlude'; 'Absent Creation'; 'Scenario...
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Smith, George Ivan
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Five poems (typescript): 'Poem' ('Tired now from the long bright day…'); 'Seed Cycle'; 'Meditation'; 'a Perfumed Calendar'; 'Love Revealed'. The first four poems published in Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 155-156. 'Tired now the bright long day…' is a variant text of the poem published as 'De...
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...
M J T Tambimuttu: Poetry London Lyrebird Cover Designs
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Various front cover proofs for Poetry London featuring lyrebird designs by Henry Moore (1942) and one by Graham Sutherland, as follows: (1) black and white front cover proof for issue 9 (1943), lyrebird by Sutherland; (2) front cover proofs for issue 11 (1947), three in colour and one in black ...