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281. Add MS 88984/8/46

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Title:
Poetry Book Society Poetry Supplement Christmas 1981 - proofs
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 folder

282. Add MS 88984/10/10

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Add MS 88984/10/10
Title:
Poetry Society funding application to the Greater London Council for Poetry Sound Zones in GLC parks
Scope & Content:
Following the Poetry Society’s installation of sound zones in Prospect Park as part of the 'Britain Salutes New York' festival in 1983 (see Add MS 88984/10/7), the Society decided to apply for funding for a similar scheme for London’s parks in 1984. Contains funding application forms, notes, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1984
Extent:
1 folder

283. Add MS 88984/3/21

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Title:
Poetry Book Society Value Added Tax returns
Scope & Content:
Also contains the Society’s Certificate of Registration for Value Added Tax. Photocopies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1973-1984
Extent:
1 folder

284. Add MS 88984/10/2

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Title:
Poetry Society relations with the Arts Council
Scope & Content:
Contains papers relating to the Arts Council assessment of the Poetry Society in 1976; internal review papers; planning, staffing, and budget papers; and a discussion paper on merging the Society’s library with that of the Arts Council.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976-1986
Extent:
1 folder

285. Add MS 88984/10/3

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Title:
Poetry Society relations with the Arts Council
Scope & Content:
Contains papers relating to the Arts Council assessment of the Poetry Society in 1988, and planning and budget papers, including the Society’s three year plan drawn up for the Arts Council in 1990.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1988-1990
Extent:
1 folder

286. Add MS 88984/1/3

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Title:
Correspondence relating to legal membership of the Poetry Book Society
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence with, and relating to, legal members of the PBS. Legal membership was distinct from ordinary public membership in that the legal members were personally liable for a maximum of £5 in the event of the Society being wound up. Includes correspondence with: Janet Adam Smith, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1993
Extent:
1 folder

287. Add MS 88984/6/51

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Title:
Contract letters and correspondence with poets
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence inviting poets to take part in the festival, and proforma contract letters sent to participants setting out the event they were being invited to participate in and their fee. Correspondents include Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, George Seferis, Lawrence Durrell, Gunter Grass, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1968-1969
Extent:
1 folder

288. Add MS 88984/6/57

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Add MS 88984/6/57
Title:
Contract letters and correspondence with poets
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence inviting poets to take part in the festival, and proforma contract letters sent to participants setting out the event they were being invited to participate in and their fee. Some of the contract letters are signed by the invitee. Some correspondence discussing possible pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969-1970
Extent:
1 folder

289. Add MS 88984/9/8

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Add MS 88984/9/8
Title:
Papers relating to W. H. Auden from the Poetry Library of the Arts Council
Scope & Content:
Contains a photocopy of a typewritten, unpublished W. H. Auden poem ‘Ode to the New Year (1939)’, and related correspondence. The library copied the poem from a copy lent to Charles Osborne by Tom Driberg but Auden’s literary executor, Edward Mendelson, asked the library to remove its copy from s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1976
Extent:
1 folder

290. Add MS 88984/6/1

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Add MS 88984/6/1
Title:
Direction and administration
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the genesis of the idea of the festival, suggestions for the form and content of the festival, and the moves made to plan the event. Includes a notice of fraternal greetings from El Ateneo de Caracas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1959-1961
Extent:
1 folder