Letter (typescript, 31 July, 1945) from Hinks to Messrs Nicholson & Watson, submitting a manuscript (not present). With unfavourable reply (14 August, 1945).
Letter (typescript, 3 January, 1944) from Hector S Horobin to the Editor, enclosing poems by Gilbert Crawford Horobin (brother) - letter annotated: 'poems seems to me too occasional & too formless'. Also, a group of poems (typescript) entitled 'Death in Exile and Other Poems from Stalag 383...
Letter (manuscript, 29 October, 1945) from Jack to the Editor, submitting poems on behalf of A V Johnson. With reply (28 November, 1945) from Tambimuttu, retaining two poems, both present in the file: 'Dialectic' and 'De Nous la liberté' (with accompanying note from Johnson, 1943).
Letter (manuscript, 8 January, 1944) from de Mauny to Tambimuttu, submitting poem (not present), identifying himself as co-editor of Orientations (Cairo), with remarks on the Salamander Society.
Letter (manuscript, 18 May, 1943) from Powell to the Editor, enclosing poem 'Western Desert' (not present) on behalf of her 'fiancé', Mr Gruffydd; Tambimuttu to Powell (19 November, 1945), requesting further poems from Gruffydd 'for the Services number of PL'.
Six poems (typescript): 'I seek for new interpreters of love…'; 'Petrarch' ('Shall words set forth your splendour…'); 'If there be sorrow, let it be for me…'; 'Ne Transeat' ('O perishable Beauty…'); 'When I survey my years of wasted life…'; 'A beauty such as never man beheld...'. All poems pub...
M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Seaman, H Broadberry
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Letter (typescript, 10 July, 1945) from Seaman to Tambimuttu, submitting poems (not present), together with an unfavourable reply (12 September, 1945).