Correspondence (including letters from Margaret Bottrall) concerning Selected Poems (Editions Poetry London, 1946), and poems in typescript (with some corrections). Correspondence: Bottrall to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 16 August, 1944); Bottrall to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 13 April, 1945); Bottr...
Correspondence, Royalty Statement, poems, and a publication by Gertrude Stein. (1) Correspondence: Colin [ ] to Gascoyne (typescript, 27 January, 1941, Penguin New Writing headed-paper); Gascoyne to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 25 June, 1945), comments on ee cummings; Tambimutttu to Gascoyne (4 July...
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).
Correspondence: Tambimuttu to Potts (26 June, 1945), unable to offer a further advance against 'your book of poems' [Instead of a Sonnet], confirming request for article, and keen to see completed 'Autobiography'; Potts to Tambimuttu (manuscript, [1945]), confirming article is underway; Potts to...
Correspondence: Raine to Michael Swan (manuscript, [1945]), unwilling to translate poems from the French ('Find someone younger!'), and enquiring about the reprinting of Stone and Flower (1943) and proofs for 'The Faces of Day and Night'; Swan to Raine (29 June, 1945), advising reprinting of St...