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Miscellaneous

Manila folder marked 'Miscellaneous' that includes:
• Four reproduced pencil sketches of Sansom.
• 'The New Alcestes' - a parody on Gilbert Murray by Sansom, written Easter 1933.
• ‘Rostra’ 16/2 July 1981 containing an obituary for Sansom written by Robert Bennett.
• A handwritten article by Ruth titled 'Clive in Satire and Parody after Paul's letters'. This was written following Hilary Spurling's visit to Hobart and reflects Ruth's responses to aspects of her husband's writings.
• Two poems in Ruth Sansom's handwriting titled 'Snake' and 'Indian Play'.
• Several loose pages in Ruth's handwriting that appear to be drafts of her memories of life with her husband.

Ruth Sansom

Handwritten autobiography

Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography that describes the Sansoms' last year in London (1950) and travel to Tasmania and early years in that State.

Ruth Sansom

Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography

Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography. A number of drafts relating to different stages of her life. This mentions Martin Miles, recitals given by Clive Sansom and herself, Clive Sansom 's personal appearance and character, and the Sansoms' return to Tasmania in 1950. It discusses Sansom's published and unpublished works, their experiences at Spicelands Training Centre, their speech work in England and at the Tasmanian Education Department's Speech Education Centre. It includes a description of Clive Sansom's attitude to poetry and its writing, and provides an account of Sansom's final illness, death and memorial service.

Ruth Sansom

Thoughts on homosexuality

Ruth Sansom's thoughts on homosexuality. This mentions Jonathon Field and Paul Scott, and discusses changing attitudes to homosexuality in later years.

Ruth Sansom

Handwritten autobiography : age 85

Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography written from the perspective of the age of 85. This includes memories of her childhood in Tasmania and details of her family's history, associations with the Soundy family and Walter and Sylvia Stiasny, Diana Large, Nan Chauney, W.H.Perkins and Roy Chappell. It mentions the regular poetry reading sessions at the Sansom home in Mount Stuart, and includes her notes and thoughts on mysticism.

Ruth Sansom

Some late letters to Clive from Ruth after he died

Brown manila folder headed 'Some late letters to Clive from Ruth after he died'. There are five handwritten letters which reflect on past events, work, habits, relationships, etc, mentioning people such as Marjorie Gullan, Gertrude Kerby, Mona Swan, Martin Miles and Robert Gittings. One of the letters describes Ruth Sansom's religious beliefs and concludes with her poem 'Sweet song of Eden ... '. Another reflects on the Sansoms' 1937 holiday in the Austrian Tyrol. Another mentions Hilary Spurling' s biography of Paul Scott.

Ruth Sansom

Handwritten autobiography: The War Years

Ruth Sansom' s handwritten autobiography - 'The War Years'. This describes her school days, her work in England, the Sansoms' friendship with Paul Scott, and their relationship with Jonathon Field, and Clive Sansom's illness at the end of the Second World War.

Clive Sansom

Autobigraphy: drafts of sections

Manila folder containing handwritten drafts of sections of Ruth Sansom' s autobiography, covering the period in England before the war, mamage to Clive Sansom, work at the Speech Institute, Sansom's poetry, association with the Quakers, and marriage and life in the 1970s. In the final section, Ruth Sansom explores and describes her mystical experiences and her religious faith.

Clive Sansom

Autobiographical notes

Handwritten notes by Ruth Sansom, including her draft autobiography about life with Clive, and section of a typed manuscript titled 'Married Life'. Additional pages of material relating to the Sansoms' experiences during World War II and mentioning contacts with writers and absent friends including Allan Keeling, Kathleen Needham­Hurst, Marjorie Gullan, Gordon Bottomley, Robert Gittings, Frieda Hodgson, Margaret Rutherford, Judith Wright, Dorothy Gear, Walter de la Mare and the young actor Martin Miles. A handwritten biography of Clive Sansom focussing on his childhood and his mother with a further section titled 'Clive 16 to 27'. Ruth Sansom also describes the Sansoms' holiday in the Tyrol and her work in a Jewish refugee school.

Clive Sansom

War experiences

Segments of a typed manuseript 'England, The Love, Clive Sansom, by his wife Ruth'. This focuses on the Sansoms' war experiences with brief references to their association with Paul Scott. Some pages are missing.

Clive Sansom

Autobigraphy: chapter one

Handwritten 'Chapter One' of Ruth's autobiography/ Clive Sansom's biography. The focus here is on Sansom's childhood in Palmers Green and his school days.

Clive Sansom

Pronunciation

Notes, newspaper clippings, copies of poems all relating to pronunciation either collected or written by Sansom.

Clive Sansom

Radio plays

Seven radio plays and parts thereof written for schools by Sansom.

Clive Sansom

Miscellaneous scripts

Nine scripts ofmiscellancous ABC radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom' s assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

Tongue twisters

Tongue twisters, speech rhymes and associated notes either collected or written by Sansom.

Clive Sansom

Listening skills

Sansom's notes on listening skills and a range of other material either collected or written by him.

Clive Sansom

Myths and Legends

Four scripts of ABC 'Myths and Legends' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom 's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

Journeys in Bookland

Seven scripts of ABC 'Journeys in Bookland' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

The Correspondence School speaks

Four scripts of ABC 'The Correspondence School speaks' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

Once upon a time

Ten scripts of ABC 'Once upon a time' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

History for Grades III and IV

Seven scripts of ABC 'History for Grades III and IV' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

From the Library Shelf

Two scripts of ABC 'From the Library Shelf radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

Spoken English

Twenty-three scripts of ABC 'Spoken English' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

Communication

Fifteen scripts of ABC 'Communication' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

Poems & Letters

Brown folder marked 'Poems' that comprises copies of letters Sansom received and wrote in 1939.
• Ten letters (several undated and l incomplete) from Allan Keeling and a copy of one of Sansom' s replies.
• Five letters and a post card to the Sansoms from Martin Miles, and one addressed to Ruth Sansom only. Two letters to the Sansoms from Helen Miles, mother of Martin.
• Seven letters from Rodney Bennett.
• Five letters from Anny and Herbert Gunsburg [?]
• Two post cards and six letters from Marjorie Gullan.
• Two letters from Sansom's mother.
• Two letters from Sansom's aunt (Aunt Bee).
• Two letters from Len Sansom (Sansom's brother).
• One letter from Eric Savage and Sansom's reply.
• Single letters from Rolf Maass, Ruth's mother (19 Carr Street, North Hobart), Cicely Beardsall ( including her poem and Sansom' s reply), George Buchanan, Lewis W. Phillips, Marjorie Halben, Butch Levistein, J.R. Firth, and H.W. Chapman
• Copies of Sansom's letters to John O 'London's, The Listener and Palmers Green Gazette.
• Two newspaper clippings of Sansom's letters to the editor (unidentified papers and undated).
• Letter to Barclay's Bank.

Clive Sansom

Speaking and Listening

Twenty-two scripts of ABC 'Speaking and Listening' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Clive Sansom

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).

Clive Sansom

Photographs

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

Clive Sansom

Permission to quote

Clear Plastic envelope marked 'Permission to quote in ‘The World of Poetry'.
• Brief letters from writers who gave Clive Sansom permission to use extracts from their writing in his anthology ‘The World of Poetry’: Elizabeth Drew, Aldous Huxley, Basil Willey, E.M. Forster, James Devaney, E.M.W. Tillyard, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, George Whalley, G. Wilson Knight, Herbert Read, David Campbell, I.A. Richards, Richard Wilbur, John Ciardi, W.R. Rodgers, Cynthia Asquith, Rosamond E.M. Harding, John Lehman, F.R. Leavis, H.G. Garrod, Erich Heller, Sir George Hamilton, P. Gurrey, Max Eastman and three others whose signatures are indecipherable.
• Letters from James Kirkup, V.S. Pritchett and Robert Graves indicating their refusal to grant this permission.
• The file also contains correspondence from Poetry Review (acknowledging receipt of a poem), Robert Speight (commenting on The Witnesses), Dal Stivens (about copyright), Geoffrey Dutton ( acknowledging Sansom' s letter pointing to errors in one of Dutton's publications), M. Beatrice Forman (about her publication of Keats's letters), N. Pevsner (acknowledging
• Sansom's letter about errors in his publication of a text on the buildings of England), Patricia Excell of Meanjin (acknowledging a poem Sansom had submitted), Patrick Garland (acknowledging receipt of a drama script).

Clive Sansom

Poems Doubles and Children's Rhymes

Manila Folder headed 'Poems Doubles and Children's Rhymes'
This contains thirty poems and a verse-drama written by Ruth Sansom. Most are typed, but several are handwritten: 'Christ Triumphant'; 'The Way'; 'May the World be born in Oneness'; 'Taipan'; 'We met on a Journey'; 'Testament of inner Experience'; 'Sitting at the Wellhead'; 'The Adversary'; 'The New Man'; 'Song of the Holy Spirit'; 'The Hand that Swept the Lyre'; 'Son of Man'; 'The Three Kings'; 'One Note of Music'; 'The Grace of His Coming'; 'Philomel'; 'His Voice'; 'The Word was Shared'; 'Eternal Spirit', 'Drifting', 'Divine Spirit'; 'The Return'; 'The New Dawn'; 'All is at Onement'; 'J Search for my Spirit'; 'The Bridge'; 'In the Valley of Death'; 'The Selfless One'; 'Who am I"; 'The Visitation'.
The file also contains preliminary drafts of some of these poems

Clive Sansom

Poetry

Manila folder headed 'Poetry'
• A response from Wesley Vale Area School to Sansom's request for poems studied at the school in E, D and C classes 4/12/62.
• Letters from Longmans Green and Co, Oxford UP, Australasian Publishing Co. Thomas Nelson and Arnold advising the despatch of poetry anthologies to Sansom.
• List of poetry anthologies suitable for schools compiled by Sansom.

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

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

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Manila Folder marked 'LAMDA' [London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]
• Pamphlet about the Speech Fellowship's aims, objectives and activities.
• Letter from Peter [Hearn?] of 17/8/61 about Sansom's help with a LAMDA lecture on The Witnesses while on a visit to England in 1961.
• LAMDA flyers advertising a refresher course for teachers on 31 July and I August [no year given, although probably in the early 1940s because of the assurance that entrance fees would be refunded if non-attendance was the result of 'enemy action']. Sansom directed a session of Choral Speaking Practice and participated in a 'Brains Trust on Speech'.
• LAMDA flyer advertising a refresher course for teachers on 25 July and 26 July 1947 at which Clive and Ruth Sansom presented an explanatory lecture on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land followed by an oral reading of the entire poem.
• LAMDA pamphlet about training courses for teachers in elocution and dramatic art.
• Brochure of the London Co-operative Society outlining a series of twelve speech training classes conducted by the Speech Fellowship.
• Three letters to Sansom from Wilfred Foulis, Governing Director of LAMDA, about examining strategies and administrative matters relating to the Academy, 2/1/40, 4/1/40 and I 0/5/40.
• Letter dated 16/1 /? to Sansom from a teacher of elocution seeking advice about examination standards.

Clive Sansom

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[?].

Clive Sansom

Collector's Items

Plain/Clear plastic envelope marked 'Collector's Items' containing a list titled 'Clive Sansom Letters Index'. This is an incomplete alphabetical list of people with whom Sansom corresponded during his life.

Clive Sansom

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'.

Clive Sansom

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.

Clive Sansom

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

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[?].

Clive Sansom

About Clive's death

Group of letters labelled 'About Clive's death' from Peter Leonard, Hugh Macindoe, James Darling, Olive Woolman, Geoffrey[?] and William Ridden.

Clive Sansom

Here and Now society

Program of fortnightly meetings conducted by the 'Here and Now society', advertising Sansom's session on 'Poems from the Chinese'.

Clive Sansom

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.

Clive Sansom

Miscellaneous items

Miscellaneous items including an incomplete letter to Sansom from an unidentified writer, a Christmas card to Ruth Sansom from ''Norman and Maisie', part of a letter Ruth Sansom wrote to her parents from London during the Second World War, Sansom's handwritten note to his wife, and a note of Ezra Pound's response when the Speech Institute sought permission to reprint one of his poems.

Clive Sansom

Letters to Ruth Sansom

Letters to Ruth Sansom from Myfanwy Thomas, Kathleen Needham­-Hurst, Cedric Pearce, Hermann Peschmann, Beth Parsons, Hilary Outhwaite, Thomas Green, Peter Heam, Bruce Goodluck, Dorothy Aichrnan, Jim Ward, John Casson, May S. Ali, Therese D' Arcy, Pip Buchanan, Helen and Kenneth Brooks, Roy Chappell, Bev Dorwick, Monash University and Sylvia Read. One unsigned letter.

Clive Sansom

Letters to Clive Sansom

Letters to Sansom from Richard Ailand, Rodney Bennett, Hugh Collinson, Patsy Adam Smith, Kathleen Bethley, Stanley Godman, P. Gurrey, E.M. Gunther, Alec Craig, Gertrude Kirby, Raynor C. Johnson, Clarissa Graves (sister of Robert Graves), Stella Mead, Roger Pilkington, Patricia Ledward, Alan Keeling, Fearn Rowntree, Cecil Roberts, S. George West, G. Wilson Knight, D. Metcalf (Secretary to H.G. Wells), W. Kingdom Ward, Gerald Bullett, John Yates, Elizabeth Buckmeilla [?], the University College Oxford Elizabeth Darvell (Tasmanian Association for Drama in Education), Robert Barclay Wilson, Dorothy Sayer's secretary, Father Cuthbert, the Poetry Society, and the Unity Theatre.

Clive Sansom

From the Thomas Hardy Society

Group of letters labelled 'To Clive' from the Thomas Hardy Society, the Tasmanian Mail, the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, Carina Robins and E.P. Holton.

Clive Sansom

Publishers

Correspondence labelled 'Publishers': Letters to and from the Favil Press and University of London Press.

Clive Sansom

Speech Matters

Material labelled 'Speech Matters'. This includes a LAMDA pamphlet advertising a course for teachers including a workshop by Sansom on choral speaking, a copy of the Speech Fellowship newsletter edited by Sansom, a notice of the International Arts Centre's Summer Session 1947 at which Sansom presented a poetry reading of works from Hardy, Housman and Hopkins, an article by Sansom on the purpose of verse speaking, and letters to and from Sansom on matters relating to LAMDA administration, the Society of Speech Therapists and Sansom's Speech Rhymes.

Clive Sansom

To Answer Now

Ten bundles of letters containing a range of material, apparently organised to some extent by Ruth Sansom after her husband's death:

Clive Sansom

Important letters and articles

Clear plastic envelope headed 'Important letters and articles by Clive'. A copy of Sansom's introduction to a published anthology of passages of verse set for examination purposes by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and letters from the Secretary of the Academy concerning this. Letters in response to Sansom's article 'We the Murderers', published in English in Australia. A copy of Sansom's article on the subject of copyright also published in an issue of English in Australia, and associated letters from that journal's editor.

Clive Sansom

Clive Sansom by his Friends

Brown folder headed 'Clive Sansom by his Friends' with 'Ruth' in red ink. Handwritten drafts of Ruth's experiences and life with her husband. Subjects mentioned and sometimes described and discussed in greater length include:
• Ruth Sansom's training year at the London Speech Institute.
• Ruth's childhood and upbringing.
• Ruth's personal and professional relationship with her husband.
• Clive and Ruth Sansom's joint public poetry recitals.
• Sansom's sense of humour.
• Sansom's poetry and poetic dramas such as The Cathedral, The Witnesses, Francis of Assisi, and other publications such as By Word of Mouth, Passion Play, and unpublished works such as 'The Voice that Tempted Eve'.
• Sansom' s illness and hospitalisation in 1948.
• Paul Scott's critical response to Sansom's The World Turned Upside Down. Both Ruth and Clive Sansom's lack of University qualifications.
• The Sansoms' move to Tasmania in 1950.
• Sansom's relationship with his mother.
• Sansom's interest in Akhenaten.
• Sansom' s spiritual development.
• Response to Hilary Spurling's biography of Paul Scott, particularly as it relates to Scott's friendship with the Sansoms.
• The Sansoms' friendship with Madame Helen George and the Rowntree sisters.
• Ruth Sansom's deafness.
• Quakers and the spiritual life.

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

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).

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Clive's Writings

Brown folder marked 'Clive's Writings'. A series of jottings about travels in England and other short notes.

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South Downs - 1934, notes for a book

Brown folder headed 'South Downs - 1934, Notes for a Book' Contains snippets from texts and poems and the segment of a diary describing a visit to Sussex.

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Notes on Dreams

Brown folder marked 'Clive's Notes on Dreams'. Sansom's notes on his experiences of dreams. Draft of Sansom 's poem 'After Donne ... ', and a poem written by Ruth Sansom.

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Other Little Apples

Proofs of part of a novel titled 'Other Little Apples'. The proofs extend from pages 51 to 82, excluding pages 58 and 62 to 68. Is this Sansom's work?

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Flyers

Three flyers advertising performances of 'Lipstick Dreams' at the Theatre Royal's Backspace, a concert of multicultural music at St David's Cathedral, and several publications of documentary histories of England.

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Convergence on Bethlehem

Copy of Sansom's 'Convergence on Bethlehem'- a Christmas program for Radio in 21 scenes, and poems' with explanatory notes.

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Framed Certificate

Framed Certificate awarded to Sansom for gaining First Prize in the Birmingham Music Festival, 1948.

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Christmas Material

Brown folder headed 'Christmas Material'. Copies of poems by W. de la Mare, Francis Thompson, Masefield, R Bridges and Kipling, together with a selection of epitaphs. Some prose pieces and short plays titled 'The Christmas Carol',
'Conversation at Christmas', 'After the Dream', 'The Gold Coin' and 'The Gift of the Magi'. These were almost certain! y written by Sansom.

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Odd notes in Clive's handwriting

Brown envelope marked 'Odd notes in Clive's handwriting'. These include:
• Extracts from a draft travel diary describing Singapore, Bangkok, Stomboli and Bath (UK).
• Notes on brief meetings with Mr Grey (retired Principal) and Con Rhee.
• Draft of Sansom's 'Noah and the Pirates'.
• Random notes on 'Definitions'.
• Drafts of a proposed story 'Emily the Brontosaurus'.
• Extract from an issue of the Readers Digest titled 'A Toast for Tea'.
• A personal not about allergies and cats.

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Letters, recommendations and references

Brown folder marked 'Clive and Ruth's Letters, and recommendations and references in early England'. The material includes:
• Extracts from letters praising the London Speech Festival 1935, organised by Sansom.
• A personal reference, dated 25/6/1934, from the Sales Manager of the Ironworks Department of the firm Newton Chambers and Co where Sansom worked for eight years. The reference notes that Sansom began work in the firm as a junior clerk and had worked as Traveller for the Light Castings Department for the last two years of his service.
• The original of the Marjorie Gullan Certificate awarded Sansom by the London Speech Fellowship and Institute in August 1936.
• Original certificates awarded Sansom by the English Verse Speaking Association competitions in July 1934: First in Class III Dramatic Poetry; First in the Final Class; First in Lyrical Poetry.
• The original of Clive Sansom's Birth Certificate - 21 June 1910.
• Two of Sansom's curriculum vitae prepared in the 1930s and 40s.

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Sansom Family Tree

Brown document folder marked 'Sansom's Family Tree' containing:
• folder marked 'Wills'.
• collection of notes on the name 'Sansom' in a white paper cover with paper clip. Plastic folder with notes about R. Browning's assoeiation with Dorset.
• folder of pieces 'Kept by Clive for his autobiography'.
• folder 'Registers from Pentridge- - the Sansom family'.
• folder on the genealogy of 'Fry'
• folder on the genealogy of 'Thurland'.
• folder on Cranbome Chase.
• folder on Owermoigne Village.
• folder with queries on genealogy and history.
• folder on the genealogy of Sansoms.
• folder on the genealogy of the Johnson family.
• folder on the Sansom/ Owermoigne connection.
• folder on Thomas Hardy and Owermoigne
• folder on Sixpenny Handley Glassage (Sansom family).
• Paper clipping on Robert Browning.
• folder on the Sansoms, notes about the family and their locations.
• folder with letters from Sansom's family.
• Collection of letters about family history in a white paper folder clip.
• folder with Sansom's notes on forebears at Owermoigne.
• Brown foolscap envelope headed 'Clive Biography': various letters and a family tree.
• folder holding the family tree.

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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.

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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.

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Good Speech

Copy of the journal Good Speech (April-June 1937) containing an article by Sansom titled 'Speech Rhythm'.

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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.

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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.

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Miscellaneous material

Miscellaneous material:
• A collection of letters marked 'Clive's letters to his wife Ruth' which includes a typed poem by Sansom titled 'Do you Remember?'
• The program of a public recital by members of the London Speech Fellowship and Institute, directed by Marjorie Gullen in the late 1930s (no date). Ruth Sansom featured in three of the items on the program.
• A program for a professional development seminar ('Joint Refresher Course') held in Mansfield UK 1949 at which Ruth was a lecturer.
• Copy of an undated Airgraph from Ruth Sansom to her parents in Hobart following a bombing raid in Southern England during World War II

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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.

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Letters Ruth to Clive

A clear plastic folder marked 'Letters Ruth to Clive'. These letters cover several decades and include a photo, Ruth Sansom' s pen portrait of her husband, and her poems 'The New Dawn' and 'To the Deaf'.

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Copies of poems

A dark blue album compiled by Sansom containing copies of poems by writers such as Margaret Willey, Walter de la Mare, Rosemary Dobson, A.SJ. Tessimond and C. Day Lewis.

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Miscellaneous documents

Plastic bag containing:
• Black diary of pencilled notes about the Sansoms' trip to Europe.
• Record of books read by Sansom in 1928 and 1929.
• Printed Christmas card containing Sansom's poem 'The Carol of Three'.
• Sansom's diary for 1939.
• Home Office publication detailing air raid procedures during the Second World War.
• HMSO publication about national service regulations for the same period. Red diaries written by Sansom in I 940.

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Letters

Clear plastic folder containing letters from Sansom to Ruth Sansom mostly before their trip to the Tyrol in the late l 930s.

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Speedy notes

Collection of letters from Sansom to Ruth Sansom in a small stationery box marked 'Speedy Notes'.

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Letters Clive to Ruth

A clear plastic folder with the heading 'Letters Clive to Ruth'. This package includes a 'Triolet' and a long letter describing the Sansoms' return to England in 1962 and a photograph of Clive.

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Collection of material

Extensive collection of material including:
• A brown manila folder containing letters relating to the Sansoms' marriage in 1937.
• Miscellaneous letters 1937 -1940.
• Two unpublished poems by Sansom, one written in 1936, and 'On a
• Deserted Shore' written later in Tasmania.
• An undated letter from Sansom to his wife Ruth written later in life.
• Sansom's Will written on 27/7/36.
• The Sansom marriage certificate and congratulatory letters from friends. Separate statements by Sansom and Ruth Sansom on the topic of poetic impetus.
• A typed poem by Sansom with the words 'See St Swithin' added by Ruth Sansom.
• Copy of In the Midst of Death.
• Several letters marked 'Before marriage' in a brown envelope.
• A clear plastic folder of what appear to be Ruth Sansom's writings: 'Three Songs' and other verses, together with letters from Ruth Sansom to her husband including some clipped together and headed by Sansom 'Beautiful Letters, don't lose them love'.

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Letters: from Clive to Ruth

Parcel of letters labelled 'from Clive to Ruth when on his exam tours for LAMDA'. Over thirty letters written in the l 930s both before and soon after the Sansoms married in London.

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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.

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Letters: from Ruth to Clive

'Letters from Ruth to Clive from Bunce Court, Otterdam near Laversham Kent at the school and not long before marriage'. This comprises over twenty letters written during 193 7.

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Love letters

'Love letters - Clive to Ruth' in a brown A4 envelope. This contains Sansom's letters to Ruth Sansom written in England, Tasmania, mainland Australia and New Zealand. One group of these is marked 'Some special letters from Clive to Ruth'. It also contains some of Ruth Sansom's letters to Sansom, several of which are significant, dealing as they do with life, love, beliefs and personal relationships. It contains two 'very special letters' from Ruth Sansom to her husband in 1940-41.
Other material in this folder: Program of a Speech Fellowship seminar in London 1949 at which Ruth Sansom demonstrated techniques of teaching speech. Copy of a photocopied and bound book of poems by Sansom - dedicated to Ruth. Several references to education and history recorded by Sansom. Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'The Poplars'.

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The Abominable Trade

Typed extracts from Sansom's unpublished text 'The Abominable Trade', focussing on specifics such as rhythm in speech, pace, repetition and alliteration.

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The Speech Machine

Folder containing Sansom's pamphlet 'The Speech Machine', his notes on spoken English prepared for teachers, his notes on 'Everyday Speech and 'Drama', copies of a Schools Board Literature and Written Expression syllabus, Sansom's article 'Underlying Principles of Speech Education' with a bibliography; and relevant newspaper clippings.

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Death of Leslie Greener

Folder containing Sansom's handwritten note about the death of Leslie Greener, and handwritten records of discussions at Quaker meetings.

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Publicity material

Folder headed 'Photographs', but containing none. The folder contains publicity material for Sansom's 'World Turned Upside Down' and 'In the Midst of Death', a letter to an unidentified person in Finchley about Sansom's work and a copy of Judith Wright's review of Sansom's edition of Helen Power's poems. There is also a letter from a Harley Street specialist (1948) arranging a consultation with Sansom about his illness.

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