Prose works by Gascoyne, including scripts of broadcasts, and his translations of works by others. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, cuttings and proofs: some of these are photocopies.
Photocopied typescript of ‘Surrealism resurveyed’, an intended update to Gascoyne’s A Short History of Surrealism (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1935). Wanting leaf 11 and all after leaf 25. Typewritten draft introduction to a reprint of A Short History of Surrealism, 1982. Photocopy of introduction ...
Photocopy of page proofs of the work, edited by Roger Scott and published by Enitharmon Press, 2000. This includes the essay ‘Myself’, of 18 Jan 1937, a ‘Letter to Joan S.’, of 1937, an extract from his journal for 16 Sep 1937 and an unpublished poem ‘For J.S.’, also of 1937.
Four typewritten drafts, all with manuscript amendments, with a photocopy of the first since that is is wanting its final leaf; production script of the BBC broadcast of 21 Nov 1985, with manuscript amendments; photocopy of the text as published in Resurgence, no. 115 (Mar-Apr 1986); typewritten...
Articles and essays written between 1933 and 1988. ‘Premier manifeste anglais du surréalisme (fragment)’. Photocopy of article in Cahiers‘Ten proses’. Cutting from The New English Weekly, 14 Sep 1933. ‘Art: Pierre Roy and transcendental realism’, Cutting from The New English Weekly, 5 Jul 1934. ...
Articles and essays written between 1995 and 1998 and undated ‘Geoffrey Grigson: man of principle’, [1985]. Typewritten. Published in Grigson at Eighty (Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1985) and in Selected Prose, 1934-1996. ‘Sketch for autobiographical fragment: Lea’, 1986. A manuscript note. ‘...