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.
Stationery Office folio notebook blank except for three poems 'Bombay' and 'Bombay arrival', 'The Abandoned shade', notes towards the play 'Peasants' priest' and prose notes on Assam. 'Bombay arrival' and 'The abandoned shade' were first published in Penguin NewWriting, no. 31 (1947), in My many...
Century quarto notebook including some early poems. Contents: 'Diversion' (here untitled , also in Add MS 88936/1/2, published in The Sun my monument as 'Diversion'), 'In your place of steep meadows', 'Guest of honour' (Published in Penguin New Writing, no. 18 (Jan. 1944) and in The Sun my monum...
Notebook with an essay entitled 'Dreams', dated 2 Jan. to 19 Apr. 1935, and fair copies of poems. Contents: 'Many the nights I have walked alone', 'Birds', 'Child's cry of daisies' (also in Add MS 88936/1/11), 'Raw fragments', 'Desire' (also in Add MS 88936/1/11 as 'I want'), 'Christ' (also in Ad...
Ring-bound notebook with drafts of poems. Contents: 'Again your lily's dazzling start', 'Purple doves upon the sea' (also in Add MS 88936/1/11 as 'Tongues of exile'), 'Why should I lament' (also in Add MS 88936/1/11 as 'Song in an empty square'), 'Do not be too brave' (also in Add MS 88936/1/3 a...
Stationery Office octavo notebook with notes on Malta, Czechoslovakia, Poland, adolescents and a number of fragmentary poems. Poems include: 'It is no more, no more, no more', 'Less passionate the long war throws', 'Lost in my morning fear', 'A rough & muddy wind', 'This is the land where I ...
Century quarto notebook with notes on agriculture during the Second World War and fragmentary and untitled poems. Poetry contents: 'My eyes so long have followed the roundabouts', 'Winter morning'.
Notebook with 42 short sentences and short diary-like entries from January to July recounting love for an unnamed woman, with poem 'Where balloons bloom like'.
Stationery Office folio notebook blank except for a leaf at the beginning with a poem beginning 'There was a day which rang all ways with thunder' and drafts at the end (reversed) of 'Poem for Twelfth Night'. 'Poem for Twelfth Night' is also at Add MS 88936/1/20 and was broadcast on the BBC Thir...
Ring-bound notebook of poems, with notes on the travels in Spain. Poems include: 'Reaping song' (later 'Harvest morning' also in Add MS 88936/1/21), 'Oh the craft of women', 'Love's seasons', dated 9 Apr. 1941, 'To L.', dated 9 Apr. 1941, 'Cuckoos beat out their twin similitudes', 'Across the ar...