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German translations of short stories

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

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

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).

Newspaper and journal clippings include
• photograph of J.R.O. Bartram,
• photograph of the comedians 'Ada and Elsie',
• 'For Sale' notice and photograph of the house at 31 Gordon Avenue, Lenah Valley, which the Sansoms subsequently bought,
• report on Sansom's publication Choric Drama,
• article from Speech News announcing the resignation of Clive and Ruth Sansom and paying tribute to their work for the Speech Institute (January 1951),
• item from the Surrey News about the crowning of the May Queen ceremony (undated).

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).

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

Correspondence with publishers, ABC, budding poets, schools, politicians on conservation etc., Australian Literature Board Council about fellowship and tax, etc. 1974-76, correspondence with Higham Associates (authors' agents) 1962-81, correspondence with publishers, etc. mainly about copyright and permissions to publish (1950-83), royalty statements for tax and execution of estate (1976-82) and some personal correspondence. Also some letters from Brisbane Twelfth Night Theatre about a school of speech and drama 1957.

Including: diary 1957, manuscript poetry and prose sketches, exercise book containing journal notes and poems, book of manuscript poems.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

Dorset Village. Sequence of poems: manuscript, typescript, proof copy, correspondence and notes, "Dorset word book" (alphabetic book of Dorset Dialect words) and notes.

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry and verse for children

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

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

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

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.

Correspondence with agent and publishers (publisher not found).

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

Typescripts and notes, letter.

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".

Correspondence about fees, copyright, "Convergence on Bethlehem" etc.

Senior English: "Imagery in poetry", draft and script.

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

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'.

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

Four brown folders marked 'Personal Letters'

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.

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[?].

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

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[?].

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Clive Sansom's reviews: typescripts, cuttings and some correspondence.

Book reviews for Nation Review

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

Typescript, correspondence (published by Chatto 1975).

"Lady Franklin's Journey": notes, draft, script, correspondence.

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Cuttings of published poems, reviews, articles, short stories, letters to newspapers.

1. 1934-1970s: including "An evening with the Quakers" 1937 (p.12), introduction to Paul Scott's "I Gerontius" (p.32), statement to tribunal (conscientious objection c1940); drawing of Clive 1975.
2. 1930s-1970s: Including biographical details, "faith and service", short stories of 1940s, Quaker funeral testimony 1981, etc. (not entered in any particular order).
3. Reviews of Clive Sansom's work 1943-1950.
4. Poems and letters to newspapers 1958-1976.
5. Letters to newspapers 1974-1976.

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.

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

Tributes to Clive Sansom.

Tributes to Clive Sansom by friends, edited with biographical notes on contributors by Ruth Sansom.

Clive's poem "Innsbruck Bells" one of the poems read at the memorial meeting.

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

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.

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.

Green folder of letters from Ian Serraillier, Musgrave Horner, Doris Harding, Frederick Tomlin, M.M. Lewis, Leopold Stein, Teresa Hooley, E. Martin Brown (The Pilgrim Players), Catherine Hollingsworth, Perey Hitchman, E.V. Knox, Herbert Palmer, Hal Ward, E.V. Rieu, Martin Armstrong, Shirley Holtham, Wilson Midgley, Mary Somerville, Robert Swire, Bernard Canter, John Hampden, and J. Donald Adams.

Manila folder containing at least a dozen letters from Nan Chauncy.

Plastic folder of more than thirty letters from English friends including Kath Needham-Hurst, Mrs Ivy Fry, Margaret Miles, Ronald Cook, Margaret Willy, Tim Evens, Harold Holloway, Catherine Hollingsworth, Doris Harding, Hermann Peschmann, Lina Wake, Nan Delaney, Allan Keeling, Helen Linacre, Peter Hearn, Marjorie Jacklin, Ann O'Connor, Therese D' Arey, Margaret Miles, Frieda Hodgeson and Hilary [Outhwaite?].

White folder of letters on a range of topics including the war (fireguard duties, evacuation procedures, etc), the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and Sansom's early poetry, and from Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, Aunt Bee, Norman H. Potter and Edgar G. Dunstan. Program for the performance of T.B.Morris's play " I Will Arise" produced by Sansom and performed in March 1948. Sansom's typed 'Dictionary ofCliches' and several paper cuttings on a range of subjects.

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.

Folder marked 'Business / Industry' containing six articles by others on oral communication in the business world.

Folder containing background articles for teaching about film and television.

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

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

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.

Folder with newspaper clippings on sound in speech.

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

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

Green scrapbook containing more poems from a number of writers.

Black/ grey scrapbook containing clippings of paintings and sketches.

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

Miscellaneous items including
• freehand sketches of Sansom and John Bradford,
• photograph of Sansom on board ship,
• Christmas card from 'Mother',
• invitation from St John's Infant School to attend the crowning of the May Queen,
• photograph of a building named 'Green Gates',
• printed Christmas card from the Sansoms that contains Sansom' s poem 'Carol of Three'.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sound rhymes and various related notes by Sansom.

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.

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.