Add MS 88907/7/18/1

Correspondence:

• Ridler to Tambimuttu (manuscript, postcard, franked 23 January, 1942), referring to Lawrence Durrell in Cairo;
• Ridler to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 1 July, 1945), referring to publication of plays by Charles Williams;
• Tambimuttu to Ridler (4 July, 1945);
• Ridler to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 26 November, 1945), seeking copies of Henry Moore, Shelter Sketch Book and Betty Swanwick, The Cross Purposes;
• Tambimuttu to Ridler (27 November, 1945), supplying Moore and Swanwick;
• Ridler to Tambimuttu (manuscript, postcard, 24 December, 1945), requesting two copies of Ridler, Cain (1943);
• Ridler to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 5 January, 1946), enquiring if interested in publishing children's book ('Flashy Fin') with illustrations by Vivian Ridler;
• Tambimuttu to Ridler (21 January, and 25 January, 1946), keen to publish 'Flashy Fin' if production costs allow;
• Ridler to Tambimuttu (typescript, 26 January, 1946), pleased to receive positive reply;
• Michael Swan to Vivian Ridler (20 February, 1946), enquiring about the stencils for 'Flashy Fin';
• Anne Ridler to Swan (typescript, 21 February, 1946), concerning stencils;
• Vivian Ridler to Swan (manuscript, 26 February, 1946), concerning stencils;
• Tambimuttu to Ridler (27 March, 1946), referring to 'The Black Book' being considered by Nicholson & Watson, and advising of the whereabouts of Bernard Spencer.

Poetry (typescript):

• 'Fragment' ('Now Philippa is gone...');
• 'Poem' ('Since we through war...');
• 'After a thousand possible perils...' (15 November, 1941);
• 'The knowledge that fear...';
• 'Views of the North Coast' (Trebetherick, 1946);
• 'Now that the firmament on high...';
• 'At Richmond';
• 'Lord, for the year's apprehension...';
• 'Lovers whose lifted hands...';
• 'Death and the Lady';
• 'Never was such a year for sun...'.

Also, a review (typescript) of Charles Williams, The House of the Octopus.