Add MS 88998/4/42

Notebook of poetry in draft, sometimes typed as fair copy and loosely inserted, including the following poems:

• 'Fragment of an Indecipherable Inscription' (April 1997).
• 'Cwm Nantcol' (February 1998).
• 'A woman who could charm foxes'
• 'There is no second chance' (from 'Gifts Received').
• 'Sparked by Dreams' (from 'Gifts Received').
• 'where language falters' (from 'Gifts Received') - loosely inserted beside the draft, a folding leaflet from the Barbican Gallery for the exhibition 'Colour after Klein' (26 May - 11 September 2005) in which the phrase 'where language falters' has been underlined.
• 'A city laid out with its web of streets' (from 'Gifts Received'), together with loosely inserted a letter from Anne Stevenson (1 February 2006) offering comments
• 'Objects on a Polish Table'.
• 'Leah Laforgue (née Leah Lee)'.
• 'Bird People (Kew)'.
• 'Frames' (March/April 2007). Loosely inserted here (printed from the internet) 'Preface to Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion' and related material with a covering letter (13 May 2009) from John Hall.
• 'Cloudy Sunday' (May-October 2007).
• 'Comparative Anatomy', with two colour photographs loosely inserted of the 'herd of skeletons' with which the poem begins, and printed information from the internet about Michel Eugène Chevreul.
• 'Winchester Pond'.
• 'Palaeontology'.

Also, two items originally tucked inside front and back covers:

• notes and draft text (incorporating annotations by Anne Stevenson) for Harwood, '"Generosity of Spirit" - Memories of Frank O'Hara and Israel Young', Poetry Wales Vol. 45, No. 1 (Summer 2009), pp. 41-3.
• letter (22 March 2009) from John Hall, enclosing information (Wikipedia) on Marcel Mauss, apropos gift exchange.