Add MS 88907/7/6/17

Correspondence, and poetry and prose by Durrell.

Correspondence:

• Durrell to Tambimuttu (four of five airgraphs, 6 September, 1943, with second airgraph wanting, published as 'Airgraph on Refugee Poets in Africa', Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 212-215);
• Durrell to Tambimuttu (air letter, franked 24 March, 1945);
• Durrell to Tambimuttu (typescript, 2 July, 1945);
• copy letter to Durrell, British Embassy, Cairo (4 July, 1945), author not indicated, enclosing three copies of Personal Landscape (not present);
• Tambimuttu to Durrell (9 August, 1945), notifying of decision to publish The Dark Labyrinth and supplying Durrell with five 'money-making ideas';
• telegram (20 September, 1945) from Durrell to Tambimuttu ('Return Labyrinth Mss for extensive rewrite');
• Tambimuttu to Durrell (1 January, 1946);
• Tambimuttu to Durrell (8 February, 1946);
• Tambimuttu to Durrell (27 March, 1946).
• two letters in typescript without date, from Durrell to Tambimuttu (beginning: 'Do you on behalf of your august publishers buy raw ideas?' and 'Here is an idea for POET'S EYE VIEW, an anthology of opinion, by contemporary poets').

Prose: 'A Plea, a Very Humble Plea for the Goldfish' (typescript, 9 sheets, 'Curtis Brown Ltd / 6 Henrietta St / London. Covent Garden.').

Poetry (typescript):

• 'Daphnis and Chloe' (Corfu, 1936);
• 'Hero' (1938);
• 'In the Garden of the Villa Cleobolus' (published Poetry London, 3:11 (1947), pp. 17-18);
• 'Sierra' (with typed note beneath to Tambimuttu, encouraging promotion of Poetry London in Buenos Aires);
• 'Funchal';
• 'Teneriffe' (with typed note beneath to Tambimuttu: 'this is literally all I can find in my notebooks...');
• 'Speak as river out of the sodden ground...';
• fragment, headed 'Chapter Twenty Five. Do you believe in God?'