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1. Add MS 88935/2/65

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Add MS 88935/2/65
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Scope & Content:
Chapter 11. File labelled 11.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1965-1967
Extent:
1 folder

2. Add MS 88936

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Add MS 88936
Title:
Laurie Lee Papers
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence of Laurence Edward Alan Lee (b. 1914, d. 1997), hereafter referred to as Laurie Lee. The collection consists of drafts of Lee's poetical, dramatic and prose works, with final texts of most of them. The first drafts are autograph, usually with many revisions and re-workin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897-1999, nd
Extent:
510 folders and notebooks

3. Add MS 88936/1

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Add MS 88936/1
Title:
Laurie Lee: Poetry
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-1988, nd
Extent:
24 folders and notebooks

4. Add MS 88936/1/1

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Add MS 88936/1/1
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Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-c 1940
Extent:
1 notebook

5. Add MS 88936/1/1-10

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Add MS 88936/1/1-10
Title:
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-1944
Extent:
10 notebooks

6. Add MS 88936/1/2

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Add MS 88936/1/2
Title:
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1941]
Extent:
1 notebook

7. Add MS 88936/1/3

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Add MS 88936/1/3
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Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941
Extent:
1 notebook

8. Add MS 88936/1/4

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Add MS 88936/1/4
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Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1941]
Extent:
1 notebook

9. Add MS 88936/1/5

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Add MS 88936/1/5
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Scope & Content:
Century octavo notebook with an account of the work of the Merchant Navy during the Second World War, one leaf recounting Lee's arrival in Slad at the age of three, expanded in Cider with Rosie, and fragmentary and untitled poems. Poetry contents: poems opening 'Over the gouged & wrinkled ea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941?
Extent:
1 notebook

10. Add MS 88936/1/6

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Add MS 88936/1/6
Title:
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1941?
Extent:
1 notebook