John Waller Papers. Vol. vii (ff. 229). Non-fiction; [1939]-1956, n.d. 1. ff. 1-24. ‘London Book Gossip’; 1948. [italics]Typewritten copy,[/italics] January and March-July, 1948. 2. ff. 25-27. ‘Letter to a Middle East civilian about war poetry’; n.d. [italics]Typewritten copy[/italics], revis...
JOHN WALLER PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 172). Early poems and verses; 1931-1938. 1. ff. 1-62. Poems and verses. Typewritten. Comprising transcripts of the poems in Add. 78818 above, a few further pencilled revisions and notes, where applicable, of publication in school magazines such as New Oxford P...
JOHN WALLER PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 148). Fiction, 1944-1952. 1. ff. 1-89. 'Always a Warm Welcome'. Typewritten copy, with autograph revisions of the opening eight chapters of a novel about the press corps in Cairo, August 1944. Folio1 is a carbon letter from Waller to Eyre and Spottiswoode, dat...
JOHN WALLER PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 82). Early poems and verses; 1931-1938. Autograph manuscript notebook. Comprising introduction (f. 1), dated 29.12.1935; table of contents (ff. 2-4); fair copies with later pencilled revisions (ff. 5-82).
JOHN WALLER PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 182). Later poetry manuscripts, 1939-1982, n.d. 1. ff. 1-13. Autograph notes for poems, single lines, aphorisms, etc., apparently dating from the late 1930s or early 1940s; circa 1938-circa 1942.. 2. ff. 14-35. Autograph drafts of poems from the period of Wa...
JOHN WALLER PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 237). Fiction, 1944-1952, n.d. 1. ff. 1-156. 'Golden Flush'; n.d. Typewritten copy of a novel. 2. ff. 157-237. 'Alcoholic Fish and Other Surrealist Fables'; 1952. Typewritten copy. Apparently largly compiled from pieces published in the periodical Gen (Cairo, ...