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- Record Id:
- 040-001965921
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001965920
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000970.0x00011c
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- Add MS 71645
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BETJEMAN ARCHIVE. Vol. I. (ff. 231). Drafts and fair copies of poems, the majority of which appear in collections published between 1932 and 1979; circa 1944-1974, n.d.
Contents:
1. ff. 1-53. Autograph and typescript drafts, with autograph corrections, revisions or annotations, and fair copies of poems published in one or more editions of Collected Poems (1958, 1962, 1970, 1979), including 'Camberley', previously published in Mount Zion (1931) (ff. 1-2); 'Dorset', previously published in Continual Dew (1937) (f. 4); 'Five o' Clock Shadow' and 'Winter Seascape', both previously published in High and Low (1966) (ff. 32, 37); 'Meditation on a Constable Picture', previously published in A Nip in the Air (1974) (f. 49); circa 1944-1974.
2. ff. 54-65v. Autograph and typescript drafts, with autograph corrections or revisions, and fair copies of poems published in Uncollected Poems (1982), including 'Interior Decorator', first published in The London Magazine, 1964 (ff. 55-56); 'Stuart Piggott', published as 'To Stuart Piggott, 1975' (ff. 57-61); circa 1940-1975, n.d.
3. ff. 66-78. Autograph and typescript drafts, with autograph corrections or revisions, and fair copies of poems, some published. The apparently unpublished poems include autograph drafts of 'Bed' (f. 69) and one of a poem entitled 'The Crystal Palace' by Evelyn Waugh, invoking Betjeman (f. 70); n.d.
4. ff. 79-109. Autograph drafts of untitled poems, most with revisions or corrections; n.d.
5. ff. 110-213. Typescript, with autograph revisions and re-workings, of the autobiographical poem sequence published as Summoned by Bells (1960); circa 1958.
6. ff. 214-223. Typescript, marked 'original', with autograph revisions, of the first two chapters of Summoned by Bells; circa 1958.
7. ff. 224-231. Typescript of parts of the third and fourth chapters of Summoned by Bells, with autograph revisions and re-workings; circa 1958.
includes:
- f. 70 Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, novelist: Poetry ENGLISH: Poem: 'The Crystal Palace', invoking John Betjeman by Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh: n.d.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001965920
040-001965921 - Is part of:
- Add MS 71645-71656 : BETJEMAN ARCHIVE Poems, letters and sketchbooks of Sir John Betjeman, (b. 1906, d. 1984), poet, architectural historian…
Add MS 71645 : BETJEMAN ARCHIVE. Vol. I. (ff. 231). Drafts and fair copies of poems, the majority of which appear in collections published between… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001965920[0001]/040-001965921
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1935
- End Date:
- 1975
- Date Range:
- 1935-1975
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St John, novelist, 1903-1966,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121020973