Collected printed cuttings of Johnson's published poems
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Cuttings of published poems cut from magazines collected by Johnson, also inlcudes printed articles by Johnson. Poems include 'No, I've Not', 'Poems Two', 'A Suggested End to the Celebrated Long Run', 'Ar: Blayney's Last Directions', 'Good News for her Mother!', '7 11 1969', '11 11 1969', 'Nothig...
Typewritten and autograph draft with edits for 'Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Autobiography?', 17 Aug 1966. Typewritten and autograph drafts with edits of 'These Count as Fictions', 16-19 May 1966. Typewritten draft with edits of 'Sheela-Na-Gig', undated [ca. 1964].
Typewritten copy of 'Bournemouth', a specimen chapter for a travel book, 1969. Typewritten copy 'So you like the title...', 2 Jul 1971- 12 Jul 1972. [later titled 'Everybody Knows Somebody Who's Dead'] Typewritten file copy 'Instructions for the Use of Women' or 'Here, You've been Done!', 16 Feb ...
'Poems of Gwenalt', working papers for translated welsh poems
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Poems of Gwenalt for Welsh Arts Council, translations of welsh poems by B.S. Johnson. Draft autograph notes and translations of Eples, including printed originals. Typewritten final copy of Poems of Gwenalt, translated by Ned Thomas and B.S. Johnson. Correspondence and working papers relating t...
Typewritten draft with edits for 'The Rook Rifle', 6-7 Mar 1959. Autograph draft in pencil of 'Paddy', 28 Sept 1959. Typewritten draft with edits of 'Elation, Gourds and Donkeys', for 20th Century, dated 12 Nov 1960. Typewritten draft with edits of 'Perhaps its These Hormones', sent to New States...