Letter (typescript, 2 April, 1941) from Mair to the Editor, complaining of 'this pretentious cult of the obscure'. Annotated for publication ('Lady speaks her mind').
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Manning, Christina
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Letter (typescript, 4 June, 1942) from Manning to the Editor, with the following poems (under the name Christina Grey): 'Hush who hears?'; 'Down our street'; 'Torn'; 'Thanks be to God'; 'Flushed!'; 'Stay at home Joan!'.
Letter (typescript, 11 July, 1943) from Maranz to Tambimuttu, offering prosework entitled 'Correspondences', with two extracts ('Fifth Letter' and 'Sixth Letter').
Two letters (typescript, 29 April and 10 August, 1943) to Tambimuttu, referring to poems submitted, to having 'discovered' with Stephen Spender the artist Cecil Collins, and enquiring about German translation work. Poems (typescript, all translated by E O Sigler): 'Bartholemew'; 'Peter'; 'Lond...
Correspondence: H B Mallalieu to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 11 September, 1942); Mrs M G Mallalieu (manuscript, 29 May, 1944), on behalf of her husband; Tambimuttu to Mrs Mallalieu (1 November, and 14 November, 1945), retaining poems for publication. Also, 'Excerpt from a Play' (typescript) by H ...
Letter (typescript, 8 August, 1945) from Mapplebeck, offering the manuscript (not present) of a 'small book of poems'. Unfavourable reply (7 September, 1945) - 'paper shortage'.
Letters (typescript and manuscript, 28 August, and 2 October, 1945) from Marsden to the Editor, submitting poems (not present). With unfavourable reply (26 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu.
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Litvinoff, Emmanuel
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Letter (manuscript, 30 August, 1943) from Litvinoff to Tambimuttu; letter (17 December, 1945) from Tambimuttu to Litvinoff, retaining several poems (identified). Poems (typescript): 'What Do You Look For in World, In War' and 'Passover', both published in Poetry London, 2:8 (1942), pp. 88-90.
Poems (typescript): 'Balloons Over Glasgow'; 'To Make a Bridge'; 'By implication of the physical…' [fragment, final stanzas of 'Flight of the Margarine']. Also, a review (typescript) of Stephen Spender, The Still Centre (1939).