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Written English

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.

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).

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What Does it Mean

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

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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

Verse for Children

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

Clive Sansom

Various letters

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

Clive Sansom

Various correspondence

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.

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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.

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Tunes

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

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Tongue twisters

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

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

Three texts

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

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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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These Happy Breeds

Green spring-back folder containing the typed manuscript of Sansom's unpublished text 'These Happy Breeds' - a book of poems about dogs.

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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.

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There is an Island: A Cantata

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.

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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.

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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.

Clive Sansom

The World Turned Upside Down play

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).

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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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The Words of Christ

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.

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The Witnesses

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).

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The Voice that Tempted Eve and other Auditory Observations

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.

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The Unfailing Spring

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).

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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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The Quaker Way

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

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The Impressario

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

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

The Cathedral

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".

Clive Sansom

The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession

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.

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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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Text of unpublished book

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".

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Technique

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.

Clive Sansom

Tape-Recording

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

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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).

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Strange Goings On: Verses for Children

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.

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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.

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Spiceland

Papers relating to special war-time service by Quaker conscientious objectors and the "Spiceland" Centre. See also Clive's statement to the tribunal (conscientious objection) in cutting book DX18/79 (1) (back of volume).

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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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Speech of our time

Speech of Our Time compiled and edited by Clive Sansom, London (Hinrichsen 1948): correspondence and reviews.

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

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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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

Speech education and verse speaking (London)

Correspondence, programs, reviews, newscuttings, competition certificates, relating to Clive and Ruth Sansom's work in speech training, the Speech Fellowship Institute directed by Marjorie Gullan, Marjorie Gullan's Verse Speaking Choir, verse speaking competitions, LAMDA, Adult Education, etc., including correspondence with Marjorie Gullan, Kathleen stone, Ann Croasdale, LCC Education Dept. and London University, etc. (see also general correspondence) and article by Clive Sansom in Adult Education Vol. X No. 1 September 1937 and obituary of M. Gullan (pioneer of speech training and Quaker) by Clive Sansom in Speech & Drama vol. 9 no. 2 January 1960. See also Bible Reading course at Speech Institute 1938 (DX18/69).

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

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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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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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

Short stories published in German magazines

Including "The double image" published in Neue Illustrierte, "Encounter in Cheale" in Die Frau, and others in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Wesdeutsche Allgemine, correspondence and cuttings. See also ghost stories DX18/33 and scrapbook DX18/79(1).

Clive Sansom

Short stories and articles

Most appear to have been written at Palmers Green, London, some at Reigate, Surrey and the last three in Tasmania (but some have no indication of date), most apparently unpublished (but see cutting book DX18/79) (1) for cuttings of a few):- The monster of the Loch (c1933 - "sent to Daily Mail" - returned, alterations made since but... story with the same name has appeared in another paper Clive Sansom January 1934"); The end of a journey; The walled garden, a fantasy; Hoddesdon's Marvel (1936); The figure head; Honour is satisfied; Thirteenth time lucky; The Church; "Good night, Gentlemen"; Jubilee, an impression; Lost and found! A Roman road at Winchmore Hill; The stream, a sketch; a monograph on teashops; These modern poets; "Tibby ; A woman's will; The little Christian; The apple tree; The lost wood [Enfield Chase]; Two shots; Freedom; Silk stockings; The butterfly; Marionettes; One man's system; sonnet XX [Shakespeare]; Detection; "... and blossom as the rose" (1940); The testament of Yalta Smith, a political short story (1944?); Voices; The water cure (or "marquees and other matters"); Keats accent; A very fishy story; Confessions of a Fairy Queen; The day the elephant passed; The Fast; Miss Emily's Teeth; Widow Finnigan's music.

Clive Sansom

Short stories: "A Glimmering of Ghosts" ND

Encounter at Cheal; Baronial Duologue (or Hawkesworth Hall); Grandad's Ghost; the Double Image; The man who pulled down walls; Many do imagine; The Meeting. (Some appeared in John O'London's Weekly 1943-4 - see cutting book DX18/79(1) and some appeared in German papers DX18/75.

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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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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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Return to Magic

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

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Reading Aloud

Folder marked 'Reading Aloud' containing newspaper and magazine clippings on the topic and Sansom's article 'Is Your Reading too Fast?'

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Reading Aloud

Folder labelled 'Reading Aloud' comprising passages for reading, newspaper articles on the subject, and Sansom's notes on the topic, some of which appear to be the draft of the Preface to his anthology 'By Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Prose for Reading Aloud'.

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Rapunzel

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

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Radio plays

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

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Questions

Folder marked 'Questions' containing three relevant articles taken from newspapers and magazines.

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Publishers

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

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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.

Clive Sansom

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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Pronunciation

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

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Program

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

Clive Sansom

Postage account book

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

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Poetry and Religious Experience

Lecture at Friends House, London, 7 March 1948: correspondence, draft, typed copy, printed pamphlet, reprint 1978 with introduction by Charles Kohler and "afterword".

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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

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

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

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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

Please Pass it on

Folder marked 'Please Pass it on' comprising notes on listening and retention skills.

Clive Sansom

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".

Clive Sansom

Plays and sketches by Clive Sansom

Short plays or sketches for speech classes, etc. (unpublished?): "Interruption, a play in one act"; "The King's servants"; "Shuffled Words, a sketch"; "Friday night at the junction"; "Celestial Meeting, a stage play for three women only"; "The new Alcestis"; "The return journey, an epilogue to Flecker's epilogue - Samarkand"; "Uplift, a sketch"; "Verona to suburbia, a sketch by Clive Sansom (in collaboration with William Shakespeare)"; Untitled (brief sketch on Good Speech); "Rinaldo and St. Julian"; "The Journey, an experiment in one act"; "The Journey, a play for broadcasting"; "How it is done, a sketch for broadcasting"; "Dream Meeting, a play for broadcasting".
See also Microphone Plays (DX18/60)

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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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Photograph album - Sansom family

Family photographs of Clive and brother as children, ?parents and grandparents, ?brother's children (photographs not labelled or dated).

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

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

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

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

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

Passion Play

A novel: correspondence with Methuen and R.K.S., research notes including Oberammergau programme and postcards, newscuttings, etc. relating to Oberammergau, manuscript in notebooks, typescript.

Clive Sansom

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