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'.
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...
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...
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'.
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...
Poems in the collection from autograph to galley proof stage. Contents: I. Texts of poems included in the collection. Original texts included in the abortive collection are at Add MS 88936/1/11. 1. 'The armoured valley', also here entitled 'When birds do sing'; [1941]. First published in Pen...
Papers for 'The Sun my monument'. Most of the poems had been previously published in periodicals, and the drafts and texts presented to these periodicals are included below. Twelve other poems had been assembled as part of the abortive collection prepared in 1942, and original texts of these are...
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.
Page proof. With a proof of 'River', which was inserted after the page proof stage to occupy two blank pages, and with a covering letter from Barbara Hepworth suggesting that an extra poem be added.
First printed edition, with a few autograph amendments and with the title of the poem 'River Guadalquivir' changed to 'Guadalquivir'. Inscribed 'Author's copy'.