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Correspondence with agent and publishers (publisher not found).

Black spring-back folder of Sansom's unpublished document, 'Strange Goings On: Verses for Children'. This includes one titled 'The Australian Leprechaun'. Many of the poems contain handwritten corrections and amendments.

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

Folder marked 'Tape-Recording' containing a range of relevant British and Australian newspaper clippings and pamphlets.

Folder marked 'Technique' includes much material on the topic including Sansom's pamphlet 'The Speech Machine', together with a letter to G. Hinds and one from 'Catherine' [Hollingsworth?] of Aberdeen.

Brown envelope containing testimonials to Ruth Sansom's work in England.

Typed text of Sansom's unpublished book on the profession and craft of poetry, titled "The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession".

Typed extracts from Sansom's unpublished text 'The Abominable Trade', focussing on specifics such as rhythm in speech, pace, repetition and alliteration.

Two spring-back folders (blue and green) containing 490 typed pages of Sansom's unpublished document, "The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession". This comprises a series of short anecdotes and observations about poetry.

Typescript, notes, application for grant, agent's correspondence.

Poems, written for the 700th anniversary of Salisbury Cathedral 1961: manuscript, typescript, published copy, notes on history, broadcast script, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, programmes. Also printed copy of poem "Innsbruck Bells".

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.

Page proofs, correspondence with Resurgam Books. Introduction by Clive Sansom but none of his poems included.

Clive Sansom's version of Mozart's operetta, including typescripts, published copies of original and other versions, and correspondence.

Typescript, reviews, published pamphlet (1947 Oxford University Press).

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

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.

The Unfailing Spring, Clive Sansom, introduction by Walter de la Mare, "Resurgam" Younger Poets, London (Favil 1943): book, some typed poems, correspondence with publishers, contract, reviews (1942-45).

Typed sheets tied with red ribbon of Sansom's unpublished manuscript 'The Voice that Tempted Eve and other Auditory Observations'. This comprises quotations from various writers containing references to the ways in which people speak - descriptions of their voice quality, facial expressions and gestures.

A collection of sayings on speech collected by Clive Sansom manuscript and typescript draft (not published).

Manuscript, typescript, Poems 1951, The prize-winning entries for the Festival of Britain competition (Penguin Poets 1951 - includes "The Witnesses), The Witnesses and Other Poems by Clive Sansom (Methuen, London 1956): proof copy and published copy (4th reprint 1965). 12 folders of notes, correspondence, cuttings of reviews, etc. of performances, essays by school children on seeing a peformance, letter about possible recording by Argo Record Co. (1962), letter about American market (1972).

Attempts to write the Gospel in plainer English, including notebooks, typed extracts, notes, letter from David Danbe of All Souls College, Oxford, referring to his lecture and his book on the New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism (25 December 1952). Note a bundle of newscuttings on various Bible translations not retained.

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

The World turned upside down, London, 1948. A morality play based on the Christmas story: draft & revised typescript, published copy (F. Muller 1948) annotated, radio script 1975, correspondence with agent (Higham), publishers 1947-8, ABC, BBC 1948-1976; reviews, registration certificate (1947).

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

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.

Two copies of the script of 'There is an Island: A Cantata' (words by Sansom and music by Don Kay) and the texts of several Tasmanian poems not included in subsequent collections of his verse.

"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.

Green spring-back folder containing the typed manuscript of Sansom's unpublished text 'These Happy Breeds' - a book of poems about dogs.

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.

Typescripts and notes, letter.

Two red spring-back folders containing Sansom's unpublished manuscript titled 'This Quiet Dust: Epitaphs Real and Imagined' and two copies.

Three texts: 'Highgate and Hampshire', 'Old Southgate' and 'Winchmore Hill', publications that Sansom consulted when writing his autobiography.

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

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

Folder marked 'Tunes' containing clippings from newspapers and journals on pitch and inflection and Sansom 's notes on these topics.

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.

Cream folder of correspondence from Walter de la Mare, Ian and Anne Serraillier, E.W.F. Tomlin, Myfanwy Thomas (daughter of E.T. Thomas), Eric Savage, and S. George West of Kings College, University of London.

Brown folder containing various letters mainly from Beatrice Desfosses (American speech educator) and Margaret Willy ( one-time editor of the journal "English").

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

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.

Five folders regarding letters and document to do with the war tribunal and Spiceland Camp'

Folder titled 'What Does it Mean?' containing material Sansom collected and used for teaching the topic.

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).

Folder marked 'Written English' containing many articles on the topic including one by Sansom, and copies of Sansom's letters to the Principal of Launceston Technical College and Sister Canice of Thomas Moore's School.