Photocopy of ff. 24-283, of the text at Add MS 88936/2/71, marked for abridged serialisation in The New Yorker (see Add MS 88936/2/80), returned to Lee with a covering letter of 16 Aug. 1972.
First printed edition, with a few autograph amendments and with the title of the poem 'River Guadalquivir' changed to 'Guadalquivir'. Inscribed 'Author's copy'.
Theatrical adaptation of 'Cider with Rosie'. Wanting the title leaf and thus lacking indication of the date and adapter, but possibly by Nick Darke. The opening words are spoken by Laurie – 'My life began on the carrier's cart'. Typewritten.
Poems in the collection from autograph to galley proof stage. Contents: I. Texts of poems included in the collection. Original texts included in the abortive collection are at Add MS 88936/1/11. 1. 'The armoured valley', also here entitled 'When birds do sing'; [1941]. First published in Pen...
Chapter 12. File inscribed '1st sight of Laura and young man's reason to go and fight'. Drafts of the revised and shortened final chapter which ends with the arrival of Lee in Spain.
'Walking to war: screenplay by Kerry Lee Crabbe, based on a true story from Laurie Lee's “As I walked out one midsummer morning” and “A Moment of war”'. Word processed.
Covering pieces 22, 23. 22. 'Voices of Ireland'. First published in Ireland of the Welcomes, vol. 14, no. 3 (Sept/Oct. 1965), then as 'Ireland: a silence with voices' in The Weekend Telegraph, 21 Jan. 1966, and in a revised version in Cara, vol. 8, no. 4 (Oct./Nov. 1975). Autograph, typewri...