Articles and essays in a large volume Issue of Ultima Hora (sep 1978), dedicated to Joan Miró. With an anecdote relating to Miró told to Gascoyne by Roland Penrose, translated into Spanish with a facsimile of the opening of Gascoyne’s note.
Obituaries written by Gascoyne, mostly press-cuttings, but including a draft manuscript of Gavin Ewart’s obituary, and typewritten texts of René Char’s and Eileen Agar’s obituaries. The obituaries of Julian Trevelyan, S. W. Hayter, Salvador Dali, Lawrence Durrell, Eileen Agar and George Barker we...
Reviews of books and of art exhibitions written by Gascoyne. Mostly press-cuttings (some being photocopies) and with some typewritten original texts. Mostly from The New English Weekly and later from The Times Literary Supplement. Some of these later published in Selected prose, 1934-1996.
Translations by Gascoyne from the French of prose writings, arranged in order of the names of the original authors. Contents: André Breton. ‘What is Surrealisim?’ A photocopy of a reprint of the original article of 1936 in an unidentified work with the running title ‘Consciousness and confusion’...
Production script of ‘David Gascoyne in retrospect’, compiled and introduced by Douglas Cleverdon, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 11 Oct 1978, with Gascoyne reading ‘Elegiac improvisation on the death of Paul Eluard’ and an extract from his ‘Journal, 1937-1939’
Miscellaneous notes, observations, etc., on small scraps of paper, all undated. With two photocopied leaves of recollections of the Second World War in London, some in verse, and of life in London in the 1930s, both from unidentified works and possibly not by Gascoyne.
Personal and literary correspondence of Gascoyne with individuals, unless otherwise stated addressed to Gascoyne or to Gascoyne and his wife Judy. Inlcludes later computer print-outs of biographical notes on some of the writers made after Gascoyne's death. Formal correspondence with publishing f...
Correspondents: surnames Abe - Aus Julian, Ralph and Emily Abercrombie, n.d.Graham Ackroyd, 1984-1986. Includes greetings cards in the form of reproductions of his paintings.David Adam, n.d.Daniel Adams [?], 1994.Margot Adamson, 1979.Chris Agee, 1984-1989.Sophie Ahmeen, of Plum Review, 1992-1993...