Notes for 'Two women'. An account with Lee's own photographs of Lee's wife Katherine Francesca and their daughter Jesse Frances. Notes, drafts and correspondence. Lee's marriage certificate gives his wife's names as Catherine Francesca, although her birth certificate shows her as Katherine Franc...
Papers for 'Red sky at sunrise'. A volume collecting 'Cider with Rosie', 'As I walked out one midsummer morning' and 'A Moment of war'. Photocopy of marked page proofs, with correspondence with Penguin Books Ltd on the cover of the Penguin edition. Also includes one letter from Penguin UK rela...
Articles and essays. The texts of most of the articles exist in various autograph drafts, typewritten drafts, with autograph amendments and re-typings, the printed text of the article and notes and correspondence relating to its compilation and publication. For diaries kept by Lee during his tra...
'The work of the poet, Laurie Lee, with particular reference to “Cider with Rosie”. Joyce Unsworth'. Submitted to Preston Polytechnic as an English long study, main subject. Photocopy of typewritten original.
Poems published in or submitted to periodicals or broadcast and not included in the three published volumes of verse or the two later collections. Autograph, typewritten and some printed cuttings (where indicated). Contents: 1. 'Autumn festival', also entitled 'Repeat performance'. See also a ...
Correspondence relating to requests made to Lee to give addresses and interviews, take part in discussions, read from his works, open events, sign books, compile entries for directories, visit schools, be visited by schools and other bodies, donate to charities, give books or manuscripts to libr...