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Box six

Collection of miscellaneous correspondence, Ruth Sansoms handwritten memories, newspaper and journal clippings, scipts, writings and poems

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Letters: Hilary Spurling

Green folder headed 'Letters -Hilary Spurling 40 Penn Road, London N7 9RE'. Contains twenty-eight letters from Hilary Spurling to Ruth Sansom during the period May 1986 to January 1993, beginning with her request to Ruth Sansom for information about Paul Scott for her biography, discussing aspects of his life and contacts with the Sansoms in London in the 1940s, considering Scott's approaches to and themes in his writing, seeking copies of Scott's letters to the Sansoms, negotiating their sale/donation to the Tulsa University, and arranging a visit to Hobart. The folder also contains drafts of parts of letters Ruth wrote to Hilary Spurling in reply to her requests for information, a copy of Scott's poem 'Tell us the Tricks' and several relevant handwritten extracts from Sansom's diaries copied by Ruth for Hilary Spurling.
Other miscellaneous items include:
• A copy of Ruth Sansom's poem 'When shall the bubble burst?"
• Letter from Graham Dalling, Local History Officer of the Enfield Borough
• Library, requesting a copy of the Clive Sansom memorial volume edited by Ruth.
• A copy of George Moore's poem 'Astrolabe'
• Letter from Jenny Scott requesting Ruth Sansom not to divulge any information about 'evil and unpleasant' incidents in Paul's early life and asking her not to release letters from Paul Scott to Sansom.

Clive Sansom

Box five

Collection of miscellaneous correspondence and copies of letters to the newspapers, autobiographical notes, genealogy and family tree, book and poetry notes

Clive Sansom

Miscellaneous

Brown manila folder marked 'Miscellaneous' containing:
• Sansom's typewritten 'Did Jesus have a sense of humour?'
• Typed copies of poems that Sansom submitted to journals. These include 'Genie', 'The Enchanted Wood', 'The White Horse', 'Widdershins', 'The Swan', and 'Dr Donne's Unwritten Sermon'.
• A typed article by Sansom titled 'Religion and Art'.
• Copy of the Tasmanian Association for Teachers of Drama in Education's annual report 1977-78 mentioning life membership awards to Clive and Ruth Sansom.
• Typed text of 'Swithin of Winchester'.
• Copy of Sansom's article 'Keats's Accent', published in the Keats-Shelley Memorial volume.
• Typed 'mock-up' of These Happy Breeds with drawings by Max Angus.
• The Sansom' s family tree.
• Two maps of southern England's roads.
• Copy of Daily Express edition of Tuesday 21 June 1910, the date of Clive Sansom's birth.
• Sansom 's handwritten notes on technology, on intuitive thinking, and on Jean Holm and religious education.
• Several printed copies of Sansom 's biographical and publication information. LAMDA workshop program 1978 at which Sansom spoke about ‘The Witnesses’.
• A small Croxley notebook containing Sansom's notes made during a visit to Europe in 1961 referring to cities such as Rome, Naples, and Venice, and a draft of his poem about bells.
• Cutting from the Sunday Times of21 October 1990 about Hilary Spurling,
• Paul Scott and the Sansoms.
• Draft of the Sansom family tree.
• Miscellaneous correspondence, held together by a paper clip, from publishers, the Thomas Hardy Society, R. L. Wimbush, the Francisean Herald Press, Len Sansom and an archivist about Diocesan records of the Sansom family. This includes a copy of one of Sansom's letters to his brother Len.
• A University of London folder containing a copy of Clive Sansom's birth Certificate and his School Certificate.

Clive Sansom

Clive Sansom by Forty Friends

Green and red display folders headed 'To do with 'Clive Sansom by 40 Friends' for Archives University Library'. Papers, drafts and proofs for the publication Clive Sansom by Forty Friends (1990).
Book 1 (Green) comprises the draft text of the Forty Friends book. Here, Ruth Sansom's script and 'Absent Friends' contain more material than that published in the final text.
Book 2 (Red) contains the original scripts from the contributors to the publication.

Clive Sansom

Friends Meeting

Notes for the "semi-retreat" and the "day of harmony", note on silence or "stillness".

Clive Sansom

Box one

Personal papers and correspondence, poetry and plays

Clive Sansom

Biographical

Brown manila folder titled 'Biographical' and containing a number of Sansom's letters to others, including letters to and from Hermann Pleschmann and Robert Swire, Sansom's letters about Speech and Drama activities and the teaching of poetry, Sansom's letters to teachers in response to numerous requests for advice and information, to 'Aunt Bee', to the ABC, to Allan Keeling (references here to Truchanas, B. Hean, Max Oldaker and Sansom's personal writing).

Clive Sansom

Odd letters

Manila folder titled 'Odd letters' from people such as Walter de la Mare, Norma McAuley, Thomas Moult, Nan Chauncy, John Winter (about the publication of a book of poems in honour of James McAuley), Margaret Brown, E.W. Nicholas, W. Kingdom Ward, Anne Kurt and Frieda Hodgeson (LAMDA). Tributes to Sansom from Bob Brown and Don Kay. Life Membership certificate presented to Clive and Ruth Sansom by the Tasmanian Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama. A letter from 'Dan' [Roberts?] written from Assisi in 1964, and one from 'Brigit[?] to Ruth Sansom in 1983. Section of a handwritten letter from Sansom to 'Allan' [Keeling?] dated September I 4th.

Clive Sansom

Letters from friends not so well-known

Manila Folder headed 'Letters from friends not so well-known but worth keeping':
• Roger Venables 6/10/42; P.R. Bing 24/8/42;
• Stella Mead 18/10/43 and 26/1/44;
• Telfer Dennis (cousin) to Ruth Sansom 7/12/81;
• Jonathan Field 'Saturday';
• H.E. Brown of the Uni of London Press 4/11/40;
• Roger Manvell 12/8/44 and 29/8/44 about his contribution to Sansom's Speech in our Time;
• Kathleen Cunningham of LAMDA 14/5/44;
• Tim Evens 10/12/78;
• Paul Arnott (nephew) 4/7/78 and 19/7/78 (post cards);
• Harold Ripper 18/12 1966 about a poem by Sansom 'The Crib at Greecio';
• Betty Rainer in April 1959 and 6 January 1960 about Sansom' s The World of Poetry.
• Fearn Rowntree 'Friday afternoon' advising Clive Sansom on work habits and providing information about her own life;
• Nia Thomas to Ruth about Clive's death 27/7/81;
• Jim and Barbara Roberts to Ruth 28/7/81;
• Hilary Outhwaite to Ruth 20/4/82;
• Lina Wake to Ruth 22/5/82;
• Maida [?] to Ruth 8/12/81 and 19/12/81;
• Joan[?] December 1981;
• Evelyn Abraham 3/9/47;
• Dorothy Gear 4/4/79;
• W. Smith 28/9/41;
• Ralph Wightman 27/8/66;
• Eileen Holmes (nd);
• Henry Nix 10/7/41 (official notification of milk supply during the war period).
• Copies of letters from Sansom to Dorothy Belcher, Patsy Adam-Smith and Charles Kohler.

Clive Sansom

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi: the Sun of Umbria, his life told in verse and prose, Hobart (Cat & Fiddle Press 1981). Also rough drafts of poems "St. Francis. Sun of Umbria (3 volumes), typescript, published copy, research notes including guides and postcards of Assisi (1970s), application for Commonwealth Literary Fund grant, correspondence with agent, publishers and ABC, etc. 1968-1980, poems published, script for performance and programs Winchester (1978) and St. Davids Cathedral, Hobart.

Clive Sansom

Clive Samson Collection

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC DX18
  • Collection
  • 1927-1981

Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, writings and poetry and speech education areligious writings and other material. Also contained in the collection are a collection of Ruth Sansom’s diaries and the personal papers and correspondence

Clive Sansom

Copies

Brown manila folder headed 'Copies'. This contains:
• Reviews of Francis of Assisi by Martin Flanagan, Fred J. Nicholson and Norman Talbot.
• A tribute to Sansom by Dr Richard Jones (Tasmanian Wilderness Society).
• A letter from Dr Bob Brown inviting Sansom to be Patron of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society (18/5/80) and a newspaper article announcing this.
• A press release from the Wilderness Society on the death of Sansom (30/5/81). A copy of Lina Wake's entry for Forty Friends.
• A poem in tribute to Sansom by Gerda Shelton.
• Some additional biographical information.

Clive Sansom

Autobiography

Manila folder headed 'Autobiography' comprising:
• OHMS envelope containing extracts from Sansom's personal diaries, 1947/48, and other diary notes on loose sheets of paper.
• Copy of the Tavistock Little Theatre Bulletin, 17/18 May 1935, which includes notes on the play ‘Hassan’. There is a handwritten note next to this indicating that this was the first play production Clive and Ruth Sansom attended together.
• Clear plastic folder marked 'Very Special Autobiography Part 2' containing a draft of a section of the autobiography, a copy of Sansom's poem 'Prophesy' and the Sansom Family Tree.
• Birth Certificate for Ruth (Ruth Annie Large, 14/5/06) and Death Certificate for Clive (Royal Hobart Hospital, 29/3/81).
• Sansom's questionnaire to a family member about the history of the Sansom’s. Biographical details headed 'Dosier (sic) on Sansom 1926-1951 '.
• Handwritten and types notes relating to Sansom's autobiography.
• Sansom’s statement to the War Tribunal, opposing military service
• Clippings from newspapers/journals relating to London and associated topics. Copies of two early poems by Sansom: 'Paul's Cross' and 'The Wood'.
• Copy of 'Invocation of a Poet Seeking Inspiration' from Arthur Grimble's ‘Return to the Islands’.
• Letters from Nan [Delaney?], the Convent of Sacred Heart and from Margaret and Len Sansom (2/10/75).
• Sansom's summary notes of Rilke's letters and Rudolf Steiner's text on agriculture, as well as briefer notes about and extracts from other works.

Clive Sansom

Conservation cutting book

Conservation, Clive Sansom patron of Tasmanian Wilderness Society (1980), newscuttings, circulars, letters, tribute to Clive Sansom (1981).

Clive Sansom

Personal

Drawings and sketches, family photo albums, and correspondence regarding conservation.

Clive Sansom

Letters relating to the Society of Friends

Brown folder of letters, some relating to the Society of Friends during a period extending from the 1940s to the 1980s. Sansom's letters to 'Uncle Harry', to Martin Miles, Martin's brother George and letters from Martin Miles and his mother Hilda Miles. Sansom's letter to an unidentified correspondent referring to Jonathan Field and Sansom's texts on speech rhymes. Letters from Rodney Bennett, Allan Keeling, W. Kingdom-Ward and Kathleen Needham-Hurst. Letter from the editor of The Aryran Path. Sansom's draft article titled 'Mutation'. Letter from the Hobart City Eisteddfod Society acknowledging receipt of money from the Helen Power Memorial Fund to be invested and used for an annual award to competitors in the poetry-writing sections of the Eisteddfod. Circular letter from Ruth Sansom in the late 1980s to members of the Society of Friends about the Society's attitude to homosexuality and aids, together with replies from various members. Ruth Sansom's correspondence with Roger and Catherine Bayes on spiritual matters and copy of a prayer of thanksgiving from the Gnostic library of the Pachomian Monastery of Nag Hammadi sent to Ruth by Roger Bayes. Draft clause of Ruth Sansom's Will bequeathing money to Sarah Buckland.

Clive Sansom

Letters to his wife

A brown envelope addressed to Ruth Sansom, Mount Stuart, containing some of Sansom's letters to his wife written from the 1930s through to the 1980s.

Clive Sansom

Letters to keep

Brown folder marked 'Letters to keep'. These cover a range of topics including Amnesty International, the ABC, St Anne's Rest Home (where Sansom assisted with the library and donated books), Jennifer Filby of the Rosny Children's Choir, the Arts Club, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Society of Authors, and Sansom's subscription to The West Country Magazine. A letter from Rae Hogg (niece of Helen Power) thanking Sansom for his broadcast on her aunt's life and work.

Clive Sansom

Box four

Collection of personal correspondence between Clive and Ruth Sansom. Will, marriage certificate and other miscellaneous document

Clive Sansom

Lectures and articles

"The quality of language" off-print from Spoken English (Journal of the English Speaking Board) London, vol. 7 no. 2 May 1974, and shortened version for New Zealand Education magazine; "Australian speech" (typescript, no date); "We the Murderers: a study in poeticide" (typescript - lecture to teachers, no date); "Why read faster?" (1970); "Professor Higgins - imposter". Also (b) foreword by Clive Sansom for Bruce Proverbs' book "Business Communication and correspondence".

Clive Sansom

Clive's last poem

Orange plastic folder containing handwritten and typed copies of 'Clive's last poem, June 1979' ('Carol of the Three Nails'). Also a typed copy of a poem titled 'Jane Franklin's Journey'.

Clive Sansom

Letters and Letters to Papers

Brown folder headed 'Clive- Letters' and 'Copies of Clive Sansom's Letters to Papers' including:
• Letters to various people describing Sansom' s experiences of the London bombing during the war.
• Letter to Aunt Bee.
• To "Babe' (an early girl friend), 14 April 1935.
• To Rodney Bennett referring to Miss Gullan, 28 Dec 1936.
• To Rodney Bennett, 4 January 1937.
• To Aunt Bee, 4th October[?]
• Handwritten notes on range of topics.
• To George West, 4 January and 18 December 1937.
• To Williams at Oxford Press, 26 February 1937.
• To Martin Miles about a poetry reading recital, 25 and 27 January 193 7. To Miss Gullan, 26 February 1938.
• To the Listener on choral speaking, 5 June 194 J.
• To TLS on the current war, 17 September 1941.
• Typed copies of Sansom's poems: 'Renaissance', 'Fidele Chorus, 1940', 'Sonnet July 1940',
• one untitled, 'To Gerard Manly Hopkins', 'Fidele', 'Poem – July 1940'.
• Letter to Ray[?] about the German bombing, 30 August 1940.
• Handwritten notes, which appear to be a diary of a trip.
• To News Chronicle about German sterilization claims, 24 January 1940, and on 31 January 1941 about pronunciation.
• A limerick.
• Letter to a newspaper[?] about G.M. Hopkins.
• To Richard Church on 5 October 1940 in response to his comments on Sansom's first book of poetry.
• To Sedgwick and Jackson about errors in their publication Prefaces to Shakespeare, 6 October 1940.
• Handwritten letter [incomplete] from Martin Miles to Clive while serving in the army.
• To TLS about a published review and the state of affairs in Britain, 2 November 1940.
• Letter from Air Raid Warden/Officer on 31 May 1940 advising that there were no vacancies for training.
• To Penguin Books pointing out errors in a recent publication, 2 April 1940.
• To an unidentified newspaper/journal responding to a reader's query.
• From Oscar Browne about pronunciation.
• To an unidentified correspondent about lines in poetry, 15 May 1941.
• To Christian World about the war, l May 1941.
• Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'Invocation'.
• To Hermann Pleschmann about T.S. Eliot on 26 November 1945.
• To C.A. West about the Speech Institute.
• Cutting from a newspaper, Sansom 's letter about Keats's cockney accent. Clippings from newspaper/journal correspondence columns on the subject of phonetics and Sansom's Speech Rhymes, from Sansom, Oscar Browne and Elsie Fogarty.
• Poem 'Come Harvest' in ten parts, apparently written by Sansom.
• To Stanley Godman on 27 August 1941 providing a summary of Sansom's activities during the Second World War.
• To Miss Ames about lectures on speech in the army, 22 July 1942.
• To Jordan Smallfield on 20 August 1942 about speech education at the college.
• To Stella Mead on 28 July 1942 about a proposed poetry anthology of New Zealand and Australian verse.
• To Mr Day (Landlord) about rent payments, 12 July 1943.
• To John O' London on 17 July 1943 about Keats's accent.
• To an unidentified periodical on the matter of verse versus poetry ('When is it Poetry?').
• To Mr Cole on 29 September 1943 about religious education.
• To Mr Waller-Bridge on 3 November 1943 about the sale of apples.
• To Miss Birkinshaw on 3 January 1943 about a good speech examiner.
• Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'I am a Leaf.
• To John O' London on 7 August 1940 about the title of a book, The Poet Speaks. To News Chronicle on 14 August 1940 about taxes on books.
• Letter to 'R.B.' (Rodney Bennett) about examining Speech and Margaret Mead's poems, 17 July 1945.
• Two pages of a handwritten letter to an unidentified correspondent.
• To 'R.B.' (Rodney Bennett) on 7 November 1946,
• Sansom's review of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral published in Christian Drama.
• Letter to an unidentified journal about radio announcers.
• The Sansoms' circular Christmas Letter of December 1952.
• Letter to Saturday Evening Mercury complaining about an article on the Brownings.
• The Sansoms' circular Christmas letter of November 1957.
• Two letters to The Mercury about Battery Point and conservation issues (1958).
• To the Examiner on 20 June 1962 about a local drama performance.
• The Sansoms' Christmas circular letter for 1965.
• Letter to Thomas Moult about the 1967 bushfires and Clive Sansom's retirement plans.
• To the Australian about copyright, 23 January 1968.
• To Mercury about Battery Point, 30 July 1968.
• To an unidentified newspaper/journal about censorship, 20 June 1969.
• Typed extracts from several poets and a copy of a poem by W. Cantan.
• To brother Len Sansom on 18 August 1970.
• To Rev. James Day about The Witnesses and other Sansom publications, 24 May 1976.
• To Quaker Greenwood about sound boosting in the meeting room, 23 December 1977.
• To a London Bookshop about some purchases, 15 February 1978.
• To Don Kay about a production of 'Rapunzel', 15 September 1978.
• To Charles Kohler on 15 September 1978 about copies of Poetry and Religious Experience.
• To Charles Menden at the Guildhall School of Music about an examination syllabus, 15 September 1978.
• To Senator Michael Townley about copyright matters on 15 September 1978.
• To David Higham Associates on 30 May 1979 about permission to use poems from The Cathedral.
• To TLS about propaganda and the war, 16 August 1941.
• To David Higham, publisher about reprinting The Witnesses, 30 May 1979.
• To A.D. Haigh (Mount Stuart) about the preservation of old buildings, 30 July 1979.
• To the Tasmanian Mail about an article on religion, JO August 1979.
• To Hilary Webster about two of his Tasmanian poems, 10 August 1979.
• To Sylvia (Stiasny) about Kipling's poems and references to fairies, 26 July 1979. Part of Sansom's letter about a poet whose poem 'The Dreamer' is admired.
• Part of Sansom's report on a candidate's performance.
• Program of a performance of Euripides' Alcestis by the London Verse
• Speaking Choir on April I 19[?] in which Clive Sansom spoke the part of the God Apollo.

Clive Sansom

Poems, mostly unpublished

Including dog ballads (see also "These happy breeds"), children's poems, correspondence with The Listener, Country Life, Poetry Review, etc., Akhenaton Poems (manuscript c1970-71 - drafts for a ? sequence, see also "Akhnaton's Hymn" in In the Midst of Death (9) and in The Poet Speaks). Some earlier poems included.

Clive Sansom

Verse for Children

Correspondence with agent and publishers, drafts etc., including: "Green Dragon", "Hannibals Animals", "Strange goings on" and Collected Verse.

Clive Sansom

Speech in the Primary School

Speech in the Primary School 1965 (A. & C. Black), third edition 1974 as Speech and Communication in the Primary School: correspondence with A. & C. Black, notes, newspaper cuttings, music, notes on school speech training.

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Clive by Ruth

Brown folder headed 'Clive by Ruth'
Some of Ruth Sansom's handwritten notes of her memories. These notes are in no logical order and many of the loose pages are not numbered. The material describes aspects of the Sansoms' life in England before, during and after the Second World War, life in Tasmania, work with the Education Department and return visits to England in 1961 and 1978. Topics addressed by Ruth Sansom include Sansom's unpublished work, his attitude to the Quakers and his production of T.B. Morris's play 'I Will Arise'. Mention is made of the Sansoms' association and friendship with Allan Keeling, Nan Chauncy, Martin Miles, Margaret Rutherford, Robert Gittings, Nan Delaney and Paul Scott. This file includes Sansom's letter to the Australian on the subject of arts grants (17 February 1969).

Clive Sansom

On the speaking of Shakespeare

Originally published for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the late 1940s: letter from LAMDA asking if it could be republished (October 1977): duplicated typescript, draft, notes, correspondence with Bodley Head.

Clive Sansom

Speech Education Centre, Hobart

Under the Tasmanian Department of Education, directed by Clive and Ruth Sansom 1950-1968: description of Centre and duties of Supervisor, reports, correspondence, practice material (not by Clive Sansom), articles by Clive Sansom, "The speech machine: some notes for candidates in the Schools Board 'Art of speech' course, prepared by Clive Sansom" 1962, "Listening" - general sheet - infant/primary, "Spoken English" from Opinion j. of South Australia English Teachers Association ND, etc., including later correspondence about speech training (1970-78) and letter to Ruth Sansom about copies of Clive Sansom Collected Poems; "Marjorie Gullan - some reminiscences" (typescript, ND). Also file relating to the migration of Maurice and Gillian (nee Lousley) Hilliard, speech educators 1955-1964 (moved to Wollongong 1964).

Clive Sansom

Program

Program for a 'Masters of Melody' concert performance of the cantata "There is an Island" held 1 July 1977.

Clive Sansom

Carnival of Animals

Words by Clive Sansom to Saint-Saens' Suite: script, correspondence - broadcast and concert performances.

Clive Sansom

Unpublished poems

Poems not published in book form (adult) collected by Ruth Sansom for possible selection for publication, including early poems, "Tasmanian Scene" (or "Hawks"), etc. Also proof of "Going, Going" (published in Young Winter's Tales 4) and letter.

Clive Sansom

Music score

Music score for Sansom's cantata "There is an Island". Words by Sansom and music by Don Kay, dated April 1977.

Clive Sansom

These Happy Breeds

Manila folder headed 'These Happy Breeds'.
Mock-up and typescript of the book. Letter from Sansom to David Higham Associates of 30/4/77 about this book and the last three chapters of the early autobiography, ‘I Find My Voice’. Publishers' rejection notes relating to 'These Happy Breeds' from Hamish Hamilton, Jonathon Cape and David Higham.

Clive Sansom

There is an Island

A cantata commissioned by the Rosny Children's Choir, music by Don Kay, words by Clive Sansom: correspondence on fees and routine matters, drafts, typescripts, news cuttings, etc. rough notes.

Clive Sansom

Miscellaneous items

(i)
• Handwritten notes apparently relating to Sansom's autobiography.
• The program for performances of Die Fledermaus at the Theatre Royal, 9-19 March 1955. Sansom produced the opera and wrote the dialogue. 'Our Moral Obligation'
• Copy of Sansom's address to the Tasmanian Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
• The wedding speech Sansom wrote for Brian Paine in 1974.
• Copy of Branich's [?] poem 'The Monk in the Kitchen'.
• Short story by Reverend Howard Schode [?].
(ii) Copy of Lloyd James' pamphlet ‘Talks on English Speech’.
(iii)
• Christmas card 1946
• Sansom's statement to the Military Tribunal in which he opposed military service in the Second World War.
• Owen Reid's article on Sansom published in the journal Tasmanian Education.
• Sansom's diary notes for 1961 mentioning a visit to Dorchester, to Hardy Country, to Dorset, to Glastonbury, and his meeting with Canon Dawson (to discuss a recital of poems from The Cathedral).
• Sansom's notes for a talk on 'Writing Poetry' - 1975.
• List of poems for a reading by Sansom at Richmond, Tasmania.
• Selected quotes from reviews of The Witnesses.
• Sansom's biographical details that he provided on request to a parent. Two copies of the text of Sansom's talk titled 'One Poet's Job' with an attachment about his early life.
• Sansom's handwritten notes on God and Imagination.
• Sansom's brief notes on his life and career that he prepared for entry in the International 'Who's Who in Poetry.
• A note about Sansom's poetry reading that he presented in Canberra 8 September 1974.
• Sansom's address to the 6th Biennial Assembly of the Australian Society of Education through the Arts on 21/9/76, Also notes on a talk he gave on 22 January 1976.
• Two handwritten copies of poems from Dorset Village.
• A printed sheet containing four of Sansom's poems on Tasmanian themes, Extracts from reviews of The Unfailing Spring and The Witnesses,
• Two typed poems by Sansom: 'A Recipe for Bones' and 'At Miss Austen's Grave'.
• Typed version of Sansom's article 'Poetry Reading and Appreciation', Sansom' s article about The Witnesses.
• Several typed pages of Sansom's poems.
• Extracts from reviews of In the Midst of Death and The Witnesses
(iv)
• Sansom's notes prepared for his introduction of Judith Wright at the Town Hall - 15 March 1972.
• Sansom's speech at the memorial service for Brenda Hean - 29 September 1972.
• Copies of several small advertisements about Lake Pedder, which Sansom placed in the Mercury.
• The text of Sansom' s speech about Lake Pedder - 'A Place Apart from all Others'.
(v)
Quaker material including:
• Copy of an edition of The Australian Friend containing Sansom 's article on 'The Religious Basis of Peace Testimony'.
• Draft typescript of the above article.
• Program for Quakers' Yearly Meeting 1972 at which Sansom and his wife spoke on music and poetry.
• Two copies of a talk and reading presented to the Yearly Quaker Meeting on January 9th 1971.
• Submission to a Senate Committee on Children's Television.
• Newspaper and magazine clippings about school assemblies and religion in schools.
• Program for a presentation to Quakers on 24 November 1973 on the subject of St Francis of Assisi.
• A draft of Sansom's article titled 'York Minster'.
• Minutes of two Friends' meetings -25 July and 28 September 1975.
• 'The Timeless Moment' extracts from poets and writers and Sansom's work, compiled by Sansom.
(vi) Speech education material by Sansom and others:
• Material from University of Michigan 21/8/56.
• Zoe Community School.
• Newsletter of Tasmanian Education Department Speech Centre, October 1970.
• Topics for talks.
• Range of clippings about speech and talking.
• Noel Atkins' demonstration lesson on speech education.
• Sansom's letter of advice to Sister Canice of Thomas Moore School. Articles on group discussion, 'How we Speak', oral language and impromptu talks. Sansom wrote most of these.

Clive Sansom

Postage account book

Business correspondence postage accounts, noting postage and addresses, including publishers, ABC, schools and speech teachers, booksellers, politicians.

Clive Sansom

Rhymes for Primary Schools

Acting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom, London (A. & C. Black 1947): drafts, correspondence with publisher, book, reviews, revision; Rhythm Rhymes by Ruth Sansom, London (A. & C. Black, 1965): correspondence with publisher and with Argo about possible publication of recording (and of Activity Rhymes); Speech Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom (new edition 1974): correspondence 1972-1974; Counting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom: draft, rejects, correspondence 1973-74; "Conversation Rhymes": rhymes collected for a possible collection (1970s?).

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These Happy Breeds

"Dog doggerel" by Clive Sansom, drawings by Max Angus: typescript of text, photocopies book including drawings. Not published as a book but some poems published separately.

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Songs

Poems written by Clive Sansom for musical setting: correspondence, drafts, printed publications etc. relating to:- "The carpenter's son" a carol, music by Richard Graves; "Stiasny": two songs, The Forest Wind, Inscription for an old tomb, poems by Clive Sansom, music by Walter Stiasny (Hinrichsen edition 1953); "The Wood", music by Walter Stiasny for a dramatic low voice (1952); "The Word made Child", music by Cecil Matheson (1956-8); "The Shepherd's Carol", music by Richard Graves (195-); "Sleep Tiny Child", lullaby from the "World Turned Upside Down", music by Richard Graves (195-); "Butterflies", music by Richard Graves (ND); "The Farmyard, ten songs, words by Clive Sansom, music by Richard Graves (Piccaninny's Lullaby, The Caterpillar, The Mice & the Cat, Fishing, The Policeman, The Rabbit and the Fox, Miss Mouse, Oak Trees, The Farmyard (1962); "The Candle Carol" (from The Cathedral request from Colin Brumby for permission to set it to music; "Blessed be that maid Mary" (Anglicised by Clive Sansom for Wilfred King; "Song" [Bramber (set to music by Richard Graves - music not published); "The Carol of Three" (1956, 1965); "The Witch and the Wizard", an operetta for young children, music by John Gordon, words by Clive Sansom (from Acting Rhymes); "The Irish Fiddler" (from the Golden Unicorn); "The shepherd's Carol", music by Mrs M.T. Smith (1971); "Mary of Nazareth" (from The Witnesses music by Ralph Middenway for Perth Festival etc. 1972). Also copy of poem [for simple musical accompaniment] "The Murder on the Lonely Farm".

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Golden Unicorn

Poetry for children (pubished by Methuen 1966): draft, correspondence with Higham Authors' agents, and others 1963-1975.

Clive Sansom

The Quaker Way

Publication for the Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, including typescript, notes, correspondence.

Clive Sansom

Letters to and from Rodney and Joan Bennett

Cream folder containing letters to and from Rodney and Joan Bennett. These letters (predominantly from 1936-1948) focus on Sansom and R. Bennett's individual writing and their collaboration with school texts. The most recent letter is dated 23/11/73. The folder includes one letter from Winifred Scott about Sansom's "Speech Rhymes", and part of a letter from an unidentified correspondent.

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Rapunzel

Opera for Children's Theatre, music by Don Kay: drafts.

Clive Sansom

Swithun of Winchester

Typescripts, broadcast script, printed copy, correspondence, research notes including printed material on Winchester Cathedral and on St. Swithun (performed in Winchester Cathedral 1971).

Clive Sansom

Helen Power

Personal papers. photographs and correspondence relating to Helen Power (1870-1957), Tasmanian poet

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Writings and letters

Manila Folder headed 'Clive - writings and letters answered in scribbled handwriting'.
• Typed script of 'Nightmare Abbey' prepared by Sansom and based on Peacock's novel for an ABC broadcast 'Journeys into Bookland'.
• 'This Damned Hypocrisy', a handwritten nine-page essay written in response to the public furore about the proposed marriage of Mrs Simpson and King Edward.
• 'Last pages for "Fenley Green"', written in 1932 as part of a short story or novel.
• "'Macbeth" Retold by Dr. Fox'. Clive Sansomhaexcell's 'spoof' on Shakespeare's play.
• Typed copies of Sansom's poems: 'Saved (A Bride and Groom to the Rescue)', 'Our Party', 'Brenda Hean: Memorial Service, Scots Church, September 26th 1972', 'This little one ... '. Handwritten poems: 'Oxford, 1938', 'The Ballad of Midnight', 'Inscription for an Old Tomb', 'A Winter Entertainment' (written in a Christmas Card).
• Two personal documents (typewritten), one outlining Sansom's career as a lecturer and writer and listing referees, the other providing a case history of Sansom 's health problems prepared for Dr Greenward in 1972.
• Letters to and from Sansom: to Jim [?] providing a summary of Sansom 'straining, teaching and writing career,
• David Higham about the inclusion of his poem 'Ladybird' in an anthology,
• The Countryman about the inclusion of one of Sansom's poems in a publication,
• Patricia Wrightson seeking permission to include Sansom's 'The Intruder' in a collection of short stories and poetry for children and Sansom' s reply.
• A collection of material headed 'For Diary 1939' that includes notification that Sansom had passed examinations conducted by St John Ambulance Brigade, Southgate Division,
• handwritten copies of Sansom's poems 'August Holiday', 'The Old Road, Condicote' (three copies) and 'After the Raid',
• typed copies of 'Words Under Grass' and 'In the Midst of Death is Life ... '
• Six articles associated with rhythm in speech: two handwritten notes and a handwritten summary of material drawn from a work by F.E. Halliday, a photocopied page from a text by Robert Speight and two typewritten pages, one an extract from Samuel Selden' s The Stage in Action and the other a series of brief quotations.
• A brochure on the Spicelands Training Centre (Society of Friends).
• A photograph of a lady and a pig with the caption 'The attack repulsed'.
• A typed list of the Patrons of the Speech Fellowship.
• A collection of material relating to Clive Sansom's autobiography that includes handwritten drafts, photocopies of sections from books, reminder notes and Sansom's autobiographical article 'My Job, Poet, etc' that appeared in The friend (August 32, 1973).

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Clive Sansom's correspondence with Helen Power and Rae Hogg

Clive Sansom's correspondence with Helen Power and, as her literary executor after her death, with Mrs Rae Hogg and other relatives of Helen Power about publishing her poems. Correspondence includes comments on the broadcasts, biographical notes, reviews and correspondence about Helen Power's manuscripts and books (the manuscripts to go to the State Library, her French books to the lecturer in French at the University of Tasmania and books on poetry to the Poetry Group).

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Publication of "A lute with three strings"

Clive Sansom's correspondence with publishers and reviewers, accounts for fund for the publication - remainder of funds for a poetry prize - cheque book, copies of advertisements and reviews including review by Judith Wright, copy of poem "your heart has an irregular beat" written shortly before she died and printed with photographs in Australian Book Review March 1965. Also manuscript music "I am no nearer proving thee" - words by Helen Power, music by Richard Graves.

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Microphone Plays

Plays adapted for radio by Clive Sansom and first broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for schools only, including correspondence with agent and publishers, contracts, reviews, typescripts: 2 "Thunder Country" from the novel by Armstrong Sperry, adapted for radio by Clive Sansom; 4 "Lost Lagoon" from story by Armstrong Sperry; 5 "Kidnapped" from novel by R.L. Stevenson; 6 "Columbus Sails" from book by C. Walter Hodges; 7 "Lost Horizon" from novel by James Hilton; 9 "Seal Morning" from story by Rowena Farre; 11 "Oliver Twist" from the novel by Charles Dickens; 13 "Nightmare Abbey" from the fantastic novel by T.L. Peacock; 15 "The Golden Apples of the Hesperides" from the Greek legend; 16 "The wooden horse of Troy" from the Greek legend; 17 "The boy who was Afraid" from the South-Sea story by Armstrong Sperry; 18 "The Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; 19 "The crowning of dreaming John" dramatisation of poem by John Drinkwater; 20 "At the Tabard Inn" based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; 21 "Town Planning" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 22 "Trees and Forestry" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 23 "A book is written" a documentary by Clive Sansom, prepared for "Book Week" in Tasmania; 24 "Conservation Day" a documentary by Clive Sansom.

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Educational toy: time telling clock

Cardboard clock to teach children to tell time (hours and hour hand in red, minute hand and minutes "past" and "to" in black), correspondence with agent Higham Associates - suggested an article for Child Education rather than trying to patent and market as toy.

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Theatre program

Theatre program for the production of Sansom's "The Witnesses" at St David's Cathedral, Hobart, 3 June 1970.

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Personal Letters 1970's -1

Folder 1 is marked 'Personal Letters 1970s 1' and contains :
• Two letters from Max Angus and one letter from Sansom to Max Angus.
• Three letters from Robert Swire and one letter from Sansom to Swire.
• Two letters from Leonard Clark to Sansom and one letter from Sansom.
• Two letters from Myfanwy Thomas to Sansom.
• Eight letters from Kathleen Needham-Hurst and one reply from Sansom.
• Two letters from Ann O'Connor to Sansom and one letter in reply.
• Two letters from Margaret Willy to Sansom.
• Two letters from Christabel Bumiston and two replies from Sansom.
• Two letters from Sansom to Olegas Truchanus and two letters to the publisher David Higham about the possible publication ofTruchanus's photographs.
• Single letters from Judith Wright, Maisie Cobby, Margaret Delaney, Tim Evens, the Mercy Teachers' College, Philada Palmer, Jean Reid, Musgrave Homer, Alfred Milligan, Martin Haley, Allan Keeling and 'Beverley'.
• Single letters together with Sansom's replies from Lina Waite and Eric Wood
• A postcard depicting Salisbury Cathedral from 'Trish'.
• Two letters from unidentified writers (one from the ACT, Australia and the other from the UK).
• Copies of Sansom's letters to Peter Drombrovskis, Robert Gittings, Cedric Smith, Mrs E. Dawson (and a copy of this forwarded to Margaret Wilkinson), Joan Bennett (wife of Rodney Bennett)
• two letters to 'Peter'.

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Photographs: Ruth Sansom

Sixteen photographs taken at times between 1934 and the 1970s. One is of Ruth at Sandy Bay presumably before leaving for England. Later photographs show Ruth on her honeymoon, horse riding (presumably in England) and, later still, at Eaglehawk Neck and Orford. There are several passport photographs and one studio portrait taken in England in 1945.

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Photographs: Sansoms with other people

Seven photographs show either one or both of the Sansoms with Walter Stiasny and his wife, with members of the London verse speaking choir at a choir reunion in London in 1961 and with other groups of unidentified people.

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Photographs: Miscellaneous & postcards

• A studio portrait of an unknown lady - an old photograph probably of a forebear.
• Two photographs of unidentified individuals, one annotated 'Tiesie Austria'.
• Postcard of Reigate Wray Common Windmill.
• Postcard of Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau.
• Pictorial folding letter card of scenes from Reigate.
• Two postcards of Reigate.
• Seven postcards of Winchmore Hill.
• Photograph of the cover designed for the Argo recording of ‘The Witnesses’.
• Envelope containing negatives of photographs.

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Personal Letters 1970's -3

Folder 3 is marked 'Personal Letters 1970s 3' and contains :
• Two letters from Michael Thwaites (Canberra).
• Three letters from Ann O'Connor and one page of Clive Sansom's letter to her.
• Single letters from Frieda[?], Stuart and Mary[?], Harold[?], Lil and Stan Johnson, Nora Potter, Eileen [?], Betty Raynor, Beverley[?], Robert Bennett, F.W. Bateson, Jean Reid, Maisie Cobby, Dorothy Aickman, Marjorie Morse, Catherine Hollingsworth, Margaret Willy, Joan Allport, Felicity [?], Sister Mary Rosalia, Ron James, Kath Needham-Hurst, Musgrave Homer, Jane[?].
• Copies of Clive Sansom's letters to Jane[?], Beth Parsons and Caitlin Constable.
• Two notes and a greeting card from unidentified writers.

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Photographs: Clive Sansom

Eleven photographs of Sansom taken at stages of his life from 1932 to the 1970s. Several photographs are of Sansom at home (Mt Stuart), one is taken on board a P&O liner and at least one is a passport photograph.

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Personal Letters 1970's -2

Folder 2 is marked 'Personal Letters 1970s 2' and contains :
• Eight letters from Kathleen Needham Hurst, 1976-77.
• Eight letters from Allan Keeling.
• Six letters from Lina Wake (Dorset Poets' Society) and copy of Sansom's reply to one of these.
• One short note and a Christmas card from Leonard Clark.
• Three letters from Michael [?], South Australia, and copy of Sansom's replies to two of these.
• Three letters from Martin Seymour.
• Two letters from Geoffrey Clarke.
• Single letters from Nan Delaney, Michael Thwaites (with a copy of his poem 'A Talk to the Willow'), Carina Robins, Beatrice Desfosses, Nancy Caughley, May Ali, Maisie Cobby, Rhoda Felgate, Therese D' Arcy, Musgrave Horner, Ann f?], Katharine Nix-James, Myfanwy Thomas, Margaret Willy, and Tim Evens. A copy of Clive Sansom's letter to Joan[?].

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Notebook

A green and white covered notebook marked with the archive number DX 18 SAN 18/88.38 containing Sansom's handwritten poems. Contents comprise some epitaphs and poems such as 'Gordon Square', 'At This Hour', 'Flowers in Exile', 'Never Believe', 'Mozart in Vienna', 'William Blake, 'Bramble Hedge', 'Cherry Trees', 'Buchenwald', 'For a Child', 'Alun Lewis', 'Soldier in Exile (for Paul)', and 'To Walter de la Mare'.
The book opens with a dedication:
"Take, as tokens of my love -
Tide-laps from those far distant shores
Where beauty and all truth converge -
These songs, that more than half are yours.'"

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Personal letters 1970s 4 : Friends

Folder 4, marked 'Personal letters - C.S & R.S. friends 1970s 4' contains:
• Two letters from Allan Keeling.
• Three letters from Lina Wake (Dorset Poets' Society) and one letter from Sansom in reply.
• Two letters from Ann O'Connor and one from Sansom in reply.
• Three letters from Olive Pell (Western Australia) and two from Sansom in reply.
• Two letters from Kathleen Needham-Hurst.
• Two letters from Robert Bennett (New Zealand).
• Two letters from Katherine Nix-James and copies of Sansom's replies.
• Two letters from Myfanwy Thomas and one copy of Sansom's reply.
• Single letters from Musgrave Homer, Peter Heam, Pleasaunce Holton (and Sansom's reply), Leigh Holloway, Dorothy[?], Harold Holloway, Beverly[?], Judith Wright, Margaret Roberts (and Sansom's reply), Elfrida Foulds, Margaret Willy, and Frieda [?].
• Copies of Sansom's letters to Leonard Clark, Ronald James and James and Ivy Fry.
• Letters of congratulation to Sansom on being award an Arts Fellowship from Mary Sharland, Anne Roberts, Don Kay, Eileen Connacliff [?], W.V. Tenniswood, Michael Thwaites (2), Mary[?], and Mildred[?].

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Photographs

Brown foolscap envelope titled 'Photographs'. Only very few of these are annotated with names, places or dates. sorted into five bundles of photographs

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Photographs: Clive & Ruth Sansom

Apart from photographs taken in the l 970s, these eleven photographs show the Sansoms in England, on journeys to Ceylon
(1950) and the Middle East and in London during the War years. One is a passport photograph of both husband and wife.

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"Convergence on Bethlehem"

Christmas poems and play commissioned by the A.B.C. 1970: manuscript, typescript, correspondence, broadcast script, notes, etc.

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Plays for Junior Secondary Level

Letter from Macmillan Australia suggesting the possibility of a new collection of one act plays for the junior secondary level, and draft of play by C.S. "William Caxton".

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Ideas - notes

Clive Sansom's notes of ideas for works, often just a brief note together with press cuttings etc. of background information relating to a subject or a setting which had caught his eye [the cuttings have not been retained for archival preservation]. Topics include: Ideas for a novel "Psychiatry Hall"; miscellaneous notes of ideas; "Quaker family in America" (rough notes for a novel for children); "More things in Heaven and Earth" (anthology of supernatural happenings); "They saw it first" (anthology of historical anecdotes); "The voyage without return" (novel based on Keats journey to Naples); Anthologies (notes, list of titles for); "Drama" (rough notes for a novel with a theatrical setting - cuttings (not retained included "The actor's life from Observer Magazine 1966, "Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama - the first ten years", "memories of the Old Vic" by E. Phillips from The Listener 14 February 1957, "learning to be an actor" The Sphere 25 December 1954, etc.); Anthology of theatrical occasions "All wrong on the night"; "Arabs" - possible play or opera (numerous cuttings on oil rich Arab sheiks, "Ben Ayed's Harem" in the Tunisian Desert - Picture Post 5 January 1952, Kuwait etc. not retained); "Tea" for an anthology (cuttings not retained included photographs of antique tea pots and tea caddies, articles on tea, Osbert Lancaster: "The story of tea" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London), Olive Warner "The English teapot" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London 1948); "Last words"; stories for children; music hall and ballet (very rough notes - news cuttings on old music hall artists not retained); "By word of mouth" anthology for reading aloud (cuttings from Listener, Reader's Digest, Countryman, Countrylife etc. not retained); "In such a time" etc. (miscellaneous drafts); miscellaneous notes and diary extracts c1930s).

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Humorous verse (adult) not published

Including: "I bite my thumb: parodies and verses by Clive Sansom" with foreword "most of the items have either been accepted or rejected by Punch" (no date 1930s or 40s?). Manuscript and typescript papers in binder, with note at front by Ruth Sansom: "not published. These will need careful selecting and possibly revising. Those in 'I bite my thumb' were written long ago..." Also (b) "The Wet Land" (1932 a parody on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", suggested by a wet Sunday in Wales) and letter to Kathleen Stone about it; (c) draft introduction to "I bite my thumb"; (d) rhymes and limericks.

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Chorus Plays

Chorus Plays edited by Clive Sansom, Youth Theatre No. 4, London A. & C. Black (no date) containing short plays mostly arranged by Clive Sansom but not written by him: book, letter from Navy Records Society giving permission to reprint "Cawsand Bay", copy of "The Dumb Wife", a mime arranged by Clive Sansom from School Magazine March 1963. Also further collection of typed drafts of plays: "The Nightingale"; "The golden journey to Samarkand", J.E. Flecker; "The House of the Magi"; "The Enchanted Shirt" by John Hay (The School Magazine 1 April 1958, 3 pages 82-84); "Three Little Billy-Goats", Clive Sansom (The School Magazine June 1963); "How d'ye do" a mime, Clive Sansom; "Faithless Sally Brown", dramatization by Clive Sansom from a poem by Thomas Hood; "Captain Reece", W.S. Gilbert Bab Ballads, adapted by Clive Sansom (2 versions typescript); "Hiawatha" (3 typescripts and Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow, dramatised version by Florence Holbrook); "Robin Hood and Alan-a-Dale", dramatised by Clive Sansom, and poem; "Absolutely Nothing", Eleanor Farjean; "The Pied Piper", Robert Browning (abridged by Clive Sansom); "The Princess and the Gipsies", Frances Cornford; "Little Billee", W.M. Thackeray, dramatised by Clive Sansom; "The golden image", Clarissa Graves; "The Rose and the Cross"; "Guy Fawkes", a verse melodrama by Clive Sansom, also rough manuscript draft; "The Acts of Saltpeter, being ye true historie of ye gunpowder plot" (a "parody of Gordon Bottomley's 'Acts of St. Peter'"; "The ballad of the invisible gardener", based on the story of the twelve dancing princesses.

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Briar Rose

Briar Rose and other plays with choruses edited by Clive Sansom, The Children's Theatre No. 10, London (A. & C. Black, no date), including "Briar Rose" and "The May Queen" by Clive Sansom, "The play of the Pleiades" by Mona Swann, "The Gentle Squire" by Eleanor Farjeon, and acting notes: book, typescript of "Briar Rose", manuscript music.

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Return to Magic

Return to Magic c1969.
Poems of fairy tales:- correspondence and reviews 1966-1969.

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Notes to Ruth on publishing books

Manila folder labelled 'Clive's notes to Ruth on publishing books, just after he came out of hospital about 1968 or 9', with the added note 'It is now 1993 - things have changed since these were written at least 20 years ago'. The folder contains four series of handwritten notes about the management of Sansom's published works and unpublished manuscripts should he die, and two typewritten pages dealing with house deeds, life insurance policy, royalties on published works, disposal of books and autograph letters, poetry manuscripts and publishing.

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Hans Anderson

Sketch play based on the film "Hans Christian Andersen" (Danny Kaye) for St. Virgil's College, with musical numbers from the film, produced by Melba Kelly: draft script and notes.

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Letters relating to Sansom's illness

Brown folder of letters relating to Sansom's illness in 1965 and his subsequent retirement from the Tasmanian Education Department. Writers include Paul Arnott (nephew), Marlene Lette, Athol Gough (Director of Edueation), senior Education Department personnel, teachers and interstate colleagues, Joan Woodberry, Gwen Donnelly, Sylvia and Walter Stiasny, W.H. Perkins, the Minister for Education and Rose Bruford. A copy of the Newsletter of the Tasmanian Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama containing a tribute to Sansom.

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The World of Poetry

The World of Poetry, edited by Clive Sansom. Manuscript in notebook written 1940s, correspondence 1956-1964.

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A lute with three strings

Selected and introduced by Clive Sansom, published 1964 by Robert Hale, London. Typescript, page proof, published copy.

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Bible Reading

Including Speech Institute Course and lectures (1938, 1947), notes and quotations, Sunday School Teachers' Conference (1963).

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