This section includes some background material, notes and correspondence, including approval of his verses commemorating the Red Army spoken by Laurence Olivier at the Royal Albert Hall in 1944 (see also Add MS 88936/1/21 and Add MS 88936/6/8), the text of 'Wartime agriculture, chapter 11, Diggi...
Papers for 'We made a film in Cyprus'. An account written by Lee with Ralph Keene of their visit to Cyprus to make the film 'Cyprus is an island' for Greenpark Productions. Includes an imperfect typescript, with autograph amendments, of the book, published London: Longman, 1947, a revised typewr...
Papers for 'A Rose for winter; travels in Andalusia'. An account of Lee's visit to Spain with his wife in 1951 to 1952. Two broadcast talks in 1952 formed the basis of two of the chapters (see Add MS 88936/2/148), and another was pre-published as 'Sevilliana' in the London Magazine, vol. 1, no. ...
Autograph drafts. There are usually two substantially complete drafts of each chapter except the last. On the reverse of the draft leaves of chapter five are four poems by Lee, one unnamed, the others entitled 'In the desert', 'Boy in ice' and 'Madrigal on the Isis'.