Notebooks of drafts of early poems and some prose. Many of these poems were chosen for the two collections made but not published, papers for which are at Add MS 88936/1/11. Autograph.
Papers for two selections of poems evidently prepared for publication, as one set of typewritten poems is foliated in pencil and both are prefaced by contents lists. Some of the poems appear in both selections. Contents: The first collection has contents leaves and is foliated by Lee, although...
Papers for poems prepared for publication in Lee's three volumes of poems published in book form for the first time. Most of the poems had previously appeared in periodicals and/or in the two selections of poems made in 1942, and these earlier texts are in Add MS 88936/1/11.
Papers for poems prepared for publication in the two larger collections of Lee's poems, 'Poems' and 'Selected poems' mostly taken from the three earlier collections, and text of poems published in periodicals but not collected. Contents: I. 'Laurie Lee', in the 'Pocket Poets' series; [1957]-19...
Translations of Lee's poems. Translations into Spanish of several poems, with the original and translated texts and with accompanying letters, by Tomás Ramos Orea (typewritten); a translation of 'Bombay arrival' into Polish by Juliusz Żuławski and a translation of 'Moss-Rose' into German by Agat...
Poems published in or submitted to periodicals or broadcast and not included in the three published volumes of verse or the two later collections. Autograph, typewritten and some printed cuttings (where indicated). Contents: 1. 'Autumn festival', also entitled 'Repeat performance'. See also a ...
Unpublished poems with titles. Arranged in alphabetical order of their final title with untitled poems and fragments alphabetically by first line at the end. Autograph, typewritten and typewritten copies, with autograph amendments. Contents: 1. 'ARP'. 2. 'Bilana: black marigolds (A free inte...
Unpublished poems and fragments without titles. Arranged in alphabetical order alphabetically by first line of the latest version. Autograph, typewritten and typewritten copies, with autograph amendments.
Notes by Lee on the publication and sales of his poetry and copies of poems by others of significance to him. Other notes on the publication of his poems are in notebooks at Add MS 88936/4/112-115. Partly autograph.