Letter (manuscript, 25 October, [1944]) from Ewart to Tambimuttu, with signed manuscript of 'Sonnet' ('September, with its mists and fitful rain…'), dated 25 September, 1942. Four poems dated 1942: 'Love and War' (manuscript); on the verso, another manuscript of 'Sonnet' ('September, with its m...
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Hamburger, Michael
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Correspondence: Hamburger to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 12 October, 1944); Hamburger to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 30 November, 1944); Hamburger to Tambimuttu (manuscript, without date), enclosing a poem by R J Cohen; Hamburger to Michael Swan (air letter, 24 July, 1945); Hamburger to Tambimuttu (man...
Letter (manuscript, 30 August, 1943) from Lewis to Tambimuttu, requesting the return of poems by her husband (Alun Lewis): 'The first lot rejected by you has not yet turned up. Have you been able to trace them? Let me know very soon as I am waiting for them to complete a second book of poems for...
Poems (typescript): 'Autumn Journal' (Section Two); 'Troll's Courtship'; 'Bottleneck' (signed); 'Convoy' (signed); 'First Chorus from the Hippolytus of Euripides'; 'Twelfth Night' (signed); 'Place of a Skull' (signed). The latter two poems were published in Poetry London, 4:13 (1948). 'Bottlene...
Correspondence (1945) between Palmer and Poetry London concerning Palmer, The Dragon of Tingalam (Editions Poetry London, 1945), with letter to Palmer (1943, Tomorrow: A Journal for the World Citizen of the New Age) attesting to Palmer's 'loyal and faithful' readership. Also, a poem (typescript...
Letter (typescript, 1 November, 1943) from Patchen to Tambimuttu, in reply to his letter of 28 September (not present), in which, it appears, Tambimuttu proposed publishing a selection of Patchen's poetry. Patchen states he is happy to leave the choice of poems to Tambimuttu and David Gascoyne. (...
Correspondence: Reeves to Tambimuttu (typescript, 19 September, 1945), enquiring about possibility of The Imprisoned Sea (Editions Poetry London, 1949) 'coming out before Christmas'; Michael Swan to Reeves (29 October, 1945), chasing the proofs to the volume; Reeves to Tambimuttu (typescript, 3...