D. M. Thomas: Poetry notebook: 'Family Bible', drafts
Scope & Content:
Pink A4 Tesco-branded notebook containing D. M. Thomas's sketches and drafts for the poetry collection 'Family Bible' (2015). The contents of this file were originally held in a folder labelled 'poem drafts Family Bible' (2015)'.
Ring-bound of D. M. Thomas's drafts and sketches for poems, especially the unpublished autobiographical poem 'Numen'. With two empty envelopes and Post-it note. The contents of this file were originally held in a folder labelled 'Numen etc — poetry drafts of unpub. Book, never '.
Photocopied notebook of sketches by D. M. Thomas for poems. Originally wrapped in a sheet of paper labelled (possibly mistakenly) 'Poetry Notebook 18'. The first folio was moved to this file from its original position in the file now referenced Add MS 89363/2/44).
D. M. Thomas: Poetry notebook (photocopied), '22', July 1970 onwards
Scope & Content:
Photocopy of a notebook containing D. M. Thomas's drafts and sketches for poems. With a photocopy of a typescript of the poem 'Finding a Family Portrait (Eliza Jane Thomas, 1861–1937)'.
D. M. Thomas: Poetry notebook (photocopied), '28', July 1973
Scope & Content:
Photocopies of a notebook containing D. M. Thomas's drafts and sketches for poems. The first folio bears the number 19, but the file was originally held in a folder labelled (not in D. M. Thomas's own hand) 'no. 28'.