Journals and notebooks of David Gascoyne, several of which include drafts of lettters, poems, prose works and reviews, and proposals for future projects. Indexed selectively.
Fragmentary entries of journals. Contents: Photocopies from Skoob Review of extracts from Collected journals, 1936-42 (London: Skoob Books, 1991). Photocopies of French translations of entries in journals from 17 Aug 1937 to 18 Oct 1937 published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, no. 357 (oct 1982...
Notebook ‘Big value jotter’. Includes notes on Françoise Malherbe and Jean Poulhan, on the 1992 conference at El Escorial, short poem ‘Sputnik’, poem ‘Scotland in 1919’, poem ‘Maritime Provence’. The poems all published in Selected poems.
Notebook dated ‘As from 14.V.80. Includes draft reviews, select bibliography on surrealism, notes for ‘Surrealism resurveyed’, translation of Yannis Ritsos ‘Diversion’, notes for a possible new poem ‘Fugue', note of 26 Jan 1981 to Carol Wilding on his political and religious beliefs.
Hard cover notebook inscribed ‘May 17th 1992, with all my love dearest David for our seventeenth wedding anniversary’. Includes notes for a paper in Manchester on Berger and Sontag, contents of reading at Farringford, 27 Jun 1992, draft obituary of Stanley William Hayter. Mostly blank