Add MS 88907/7/6/13

Poems by Douglas, and correspondence about him.

Poems:

• 'The Prisoner' (typescript);
• 'The Offensive' (typescript);
• 'The Knife' (typescript);
• 'Words' (typescript);
• 'Song' ('Do I venture away too far...') as typescript, and also as a signed manuscript on 'Middle East RAC Base Depot' letterhead, exhibiting textual differences to the typescript.

Correspondence between Marie J Douglas (mother) and Tambimuttu, drawn upon in Tambimuttu, 'In Memory of Keith Douglas', Poetry London, 2:10 (1944):

• M J Douglas to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 14 July, 1944);
• M J Douglas to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 20 December, 1944);
• Tambimuttu to M J Douglas (4 January, 1946).

Letter extract, from Keith Douglas to Jocelyn Baber (manuscript copy, in the hand of M J Douglas, 28 May, 1944 - published as letter 320, Desmond Graham (ed.), Keith Douglas: The Letters (2000), pp. 341-343, where the letter is differently dated '28 [April 1944]') .

Letter, from Jo [M J Douglas] to Betty [Jesse] (manuscript, without date, The Cherwell headed-paper), providing biographical information about Keith Douglas.

Letter from Miss M Wavell, Librarian, YMCA/CVWW (manuscript, 18 March, 1946), requesting a copy of Douglas, Alamein to Zem Zem, with reply (26 March, 1946) from Helen Scott informing her that the book is not yet published.

Two letters (19 June, 1944, to Keith Douglas, and 14 August, 1944, to Tambimuttu) from the University of Buffalo, New York, requesting poetry manuscripts for the Lockwood Memorial Library ('most anxious to learn more of the manuscripts which you [Tambimuttu] suggest we might have for our collection').