Add MS 88907/7/19/7

Correspondence and a large number of poems, many of which were intended for the planned Editions Poetry London volume 'Appassionata' that did not appear (it was publicised on the back covers of Poetry London issues 11-14).

Correspondence:

• Scarfe to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 30 May, [1941]), with a poem ('Boguslavski: Lilac in Warsaw') by Maria Pavlitrovska;
• Scarfe to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 13 March, 1942);
• Scarfe to Tambimuttu (typescript, Faroe Islands, 26 September, 1943), enclosing 'Dialogue of the Poet and John Bull', 'Girls', 'Birthday' and 'Marble';
• Scarfe to Tambimuttu (manuscript, dated Wednesday only [August, 1945]);
• Tambimuttu to Scarfe (20 August, 1945);
• Scarfe to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 21 October, 1945), referring to 'Appassionata';
• Scarfe to Tambimuttu (manuscript, dated 'Saturday' [1945]), beginning 'I am on leave for another week...';
• Tambimuttu to Scarfe (27 November, 1945);
• Tambimuttu to Scarfe (14 December, 1945);
• Tambimuttu to Scarfe (18 December, 1945).

Also, Scarfe to Tambimuttu (manuscript, 2 January, 1946), enclosing the following poems (typescript) according to numbered sequence given in letter, some of which are present as duplicates, some with variant text:

• (1) 'Dialogue of the Poet and John Bull' [not present with this letter - for text, see letter above, 26 September, 1943];
• (2) 'English Rose';
• (3) 'Sunday Leave';
• (4) 'His Lady, Sleeping';
• (5) 'His Lady, Reposing';
• (6) 'The Grotto';
• (7) 'Faeroese Girls';
• (8) 'Marble' [title struck-through - poem re-positioned as number 24 in sequence];
• (9) 'Solitudes V';
• (10) 'A Candle in a Barrack Room';
• (11-14) - four poems that are listed in letter but not present;
• (15) 'Recruits';
• (16) 'To a Conscript';
• (17) 'Solitudes I';
• (18) 'Solitudes II';
• (19) 'Solitudes VII';
• (20) 'To a Comrade';
• (21) 'Bren Gun' and 'Grenade';
• (22) 'Sonnet' ('Spirally a silence...');
• (23) 'Parachutists';
• (24) 'Marble'.

Also, Tambimuttu to Scarfe (14 March, 1946), noting unsuccessful reproduction of drawing by William Stobbs intended for front cover of 'Appassionata'.

Further poems in the file: 'Autumn Evening'; 'The Pearl of Life'; 'Ode to Christ'; 'Solitudes'; 'Tuwim: Lesson'; and 'The Integral Vision' (with envelope).

Also, a further group of poems identified as for 'anthology' and/or Poetry London: 'Serenade'; 'Zero Hour a Ballad'; 'The Island'; 'On Reading Nietzsche'; 'Lines to a German'; 'Frost'; 'Seasons of War'; and 'Ode to Mother Mary'.

In addition, an article (typescript, dated December 1942) entitled 'The Poem as Thing', reviewing volumes by Rhys, Hendry, Comfort, Rook, Keyes, Litvinoff, Heath-Stubbs and Donnelly, published Poetry London, 2:9 (1943). Also, a fragment (typescript, 1 sheet, numbered 4) from Scarfe, 'Two Lectures' (by T S Eliot), published Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), pp. 239-242.