Cuttings of reviews of Land at war, We made a film in Cyprus, A Rose for winter, I can't stay long, The Firstborn, Two women. Includes reviews and copies of appreciative letters passed to Lee after the broadcast adaptation of A Rose for winter in 1989.
Century octavo notebook with an account of the work of the Merchant Navy during the Second World War, one leaf recounting Lee's arrival in Slad at the age of three, expanded in Cider with Rosie, and fragmentary and untitled poems. Poetry contents: poems opening 'Over the gouged & wrinkled ea...
Early autograph draft in a Civil Service notebook. Ends with Lee's arrival in Madrid. Notebook labelled 6. Further early notes for the work are at Add MS 88936/1/3.
Correspondence relating to the text, of the book and its serialization in The New Yorker. Correspondence and papers relating to the publication, reprinting of the whole work and extracts, broadcast and film versions and extracts are placed with correspondence of publishers, etc.
Five notebooks with outlines of the structure and content of 'As I walked out one midsummer morning', based on the diaries Lee kept at the time of his journey which were stolen when he visited Spain again in 1969.
1. John Lehmann Ltd; 1947, 1952. An undated agreement for Lee to write an autobiography, signed by John Lehmann but not by Lee, and five letters from John Lehmann. Autograph and signed. 2. The London Magazine; 1954, 1955. Publishers of the poems 'Fish and water' and 'Shot fox'. Two letters fro...
Includes: letters from the firm JSE (John Sherry Enterprises) which managed some of Lee's appointments from 1985 onwards; letter from Michael Still enclosing and translating an invitation from El Alcalde of Almuñécar to re-visit the town, including a prospectus for the First Laurie Lee Award for...
General correspondence. With a draft left by Lee to a Miss Silver. Includes groups of letters from pupils at Ysgol Eifionydd, Porthmadog, and at St. John the Baptist School, Aberdare.