Five notebooks with outlines of the structure and content of 'As I walked out one midsummer morning', based on the diaries Lee kept at the time of his journey which were stolen when he visited Spain again in 1969.
Covering foreword and pieces 1-5. Foreword. Autograph and typewritten, with correspondence and Lee's notes on which articles to include in the work. With autograph and typewritten copy of the text of the introduction to the German edition, which was entitled Die Hügel der Toscana. 1. 'True...
Autograph and typewritten texts of the essays and articles in the collection, with printed cuttings of some of the articles from the periodicals in which they first appeared. The first title shown is that which appears in 'I can't stay long', although most articles bore other titles when first p...
Papers for 'I can't stay long'. An anthology of Lee's autobiographical, travel and journalistic writings. Autograph and typewritten texts of the essays and articles in the collection, with printed cuttings, of the original articles, notes and publications used in the compilation of the articles ...
Covering pieces 6-11. 6. 'An obstinate exile'. Originally a broadcast, see Add MS 88936/2/148. 7. 'Writing autobiography'. First published in New York Times Book Review, Aug. 1964. Autograph, typewritten and printed cutting. With correspondence. 8. 'Love'. First published in Mademoiselle, Oct...
Covering pieces 12, 13. 12. 'The.firstborn'. Previously published in periodicals and then as a separate work, see Add. 88936/2/50. 13. 'The village that lost its children'. First published as 'Aberfan revisited' in Redbook, 1967. Autograph, typewritten and printed cuttings.
Covering pieces 14-19. 14. 'Hills of Tuscany'. First published as 'Chianti in the Sun'; in Leader Magazine, 16 July 1949. Autograph and printed cuttings, one marked up for publication in book form. 15. 'Spain: the gold syllable'. First published as 'Spain' in Mademoiselle, Nov. 1960 and...
Covering pieces 20, 21. 20. 'A Gift from the sea'. First published in Mademoiselle, Dec. 1963. 21. 'The Sugar islands'. First published in Mademoiselle, May 1961. Printed cutting only.
Covering pieces 22, 23. 22. 'Voices of Ireland'. First published in Ireland of the Welcomes, vol. 14, no. 3 (Sept/Oct. 1965), then as 'Ireland: a silence with voices' in The Weekend Telegraph, 21 Jan. 1966, and in a revised version in Cara, vol. 8, no. 4 (Oct./Nov. 1975). Autograph, typewri...