Manuscripts, typescripts, cuttings of poems by Gascoyne first published in periodicals and other collections. Some are photocopies. ‘Four of several poems written by David Gascoyne (Chorister), September 1929’. Photocopy from St Ormond’s magazine, Summer 1929. ‘Seaside memories’. Photocopy fro...
Patterned neck-tie and patterned bow tie worn by Gascoyne, and, in a plastic box, gold (?) tie pin with blue and white enamel stud with pearl at its centre possibly worn by Gascoyne, or possibly a hat pin worn by Judy Gascoyne or another relative.
62 strips of photographic colour negatives and one separate larger colour negative of photographs mostly represented by prints in the collection at Add MS 89011/8/21-24.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c1975-1999
Extent:
62 strips of photographic colour negatives and one separate larger colour negative
Texts of settings of Gascoyne’s poems to music, with associated correspondence of composers requests permission to make such settings. Includes: letter from David Harold Cox enclosing his setting of ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’, 1977; letter from Ben Foskett, enclosing his settings of ‘Signs’, ‘th...
Correspondents: Jeremy Reed, 1977-1996, n.d. With the texts of Reed's poems 'Castle Wolfstein' written as a hommage to Gascoyne and sent to him spontaneously in 1977, and 'In Memory of George Barker'. Many of the early letters are dated as years remaining until the year 2000.
32 colour transparency 2 “ x 2” slides taken during Gascoyne's attendance at a conference Cursos de Verano de la Universidad Complutense, Madrid, in 1992.
Hard cover notebook inscribed ‘October 10th 1991. Happy 75th birthday darling … Your loving wife Judy’. Includes note on crop circles, draft letters, 1991-1993, to Robert Winder of ‘The Independent’, to Pierre Dubrunquez, to Valerie Glenn, and to Michael Deguy, draft of poems ‘For Conroy Maddox’...