Add MS 88908/7/2/4

(1) March to Tambimuttu (carbon typescript, Newbury, 26 February, 1950, 1 sheet), advising that March is going 'to liquidate the Company forthwith', and offering £25 for Tambimuttu's 'worthless' shares in order to be able to negotiate a sale of all shares.

(2) Tambimuttu to March (typescript airletter, Colombo, 14 April, 1950), agreeing to sell his shares to March ('the price you offer is ridiculous') on condition that 'you return the magazine to me'.

(3) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, Colombo, 1 July, 1950, 2 sheets), describing his reception in Sri Lanka.

(4) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, Colombo, 8 August, 1950, 3 sheets), further details of life and prospects in Sri Lanka, including a poem written that day.

(5) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, Colombo, 21 August, 1950, 3 sheets), including another poem.

(6) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, Colombo, 28 September, 1950, 2 sheets), referring to personalised articles written for local newspaper (e.g. 'Tambimuttu Takes a Busride to the Old Campus').

(7) Three airletters without date [1950, 3 sheets] from Tambimuttu to March.

(8) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, Kashmir, 15 September, 1951, 1 sheet): 'I have been in India four months on a commission from the Times of Ceylon'; and has met, in Bombay, and married, Safia Tyabjee; remains interested in Poetry London.

(9) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, Bombay, 19 October, 1951, 1 sheet): Tambimuttu writes enthusiastically of Indian backers for Poetry London and proposes publishing the magazine from India, distributing in England and America, with March as co-editor.

(10) Tambimuttu to March (manuscript, Bombay, without date [late 1951], 2 sheets), with comments on: a playscript by March, The Sentinel (William Campion, 1951), poetry movements and his catholic editorial policy adopted for Poetry London, and on The Collected Poems of Keith Douglas (which has been 'shockingly edited').

(11) Tambimuttu to March (typescript, Bombay, 30 March, 1952, 1 sheet), studying Sanskrit and Tamil, compiling an anthology of Indian verse, and thanks March for 'returning the magazine' [i.e. Poetry London] - 'and now I must make plans'.

(12) Tambimuttu to March (typescript airletter, Bombay, without date [franked 1952], 1 sheet), with news of a large gathering of his wife's family, for which Tambimuttu wrote a satirical verse-play; has been 'cramming Sanscrit [sic] for the last four months'; plans to travel either to England or America [some loss of text at lower left margin, where the stamp has been torn away].