M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Hockenhull, Donald
Scope & Content:
Letter (typescript, 4 August, 1941) from Hockenhull to Tambimuttu, concerning manuscripts submitted. With the following poems (typescript): 'Cats in airpumps'; 'To H'; 'With daughter, squat facsimile…'; 'Song, for S'; 'Proposal to Prosperine'; 'War Poet'; 'Renunciation'; 'Parting'; 'Envoi'; 'D...
Three poems, typescript ('Exorcism', 'Fair Exchange', and 'Poem'), all published in Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 76-78 (where 'Poem' is entitled 'You Shouldn't Hang Up on Homer').
Two poems (typescript): 'Song' ('When in the year's decay…') and 'Fluctuations'. 'Song' published in Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 79-80. 'Fluctuations' is annotated: 'I like this & wd have printed it but unfortunately 2 sections are missing' (the text in the file is wanting parts VII an...
Letter (manuscript, County Technical College Guildford headed-paper, 20 November [1942]), requesting return of poems submitted 'about two months ago', assuming 'in default of any acknowledgement, that you are not interested'. Further comments on the literary world comprising 'mutual admiration gr...
Prose (typescript): 'Suddenly in the Silence', published in Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 193-195. Poems (typescript): 'Everywhere the torn carrion cities of earth…'; two poems published in Poetry London, 2:8 (1942), pp. 100-103: 'For the Children of Eve' and 'Song of the Mary Who Did Not Tur...
Correspondence: Rose to Tambimuttu (typescript, 22 September, 1944) enquiring about a book of stories ('The Rediscovered World') previously submitted - letter has annotation in the hand of Nicholas Moore; Rose to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 6 July, [1945]), requesting return of manuscript; Tambimut...