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Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder marked 'Drama' that includes school broadcast scripts and articles written by Sansom, relevant newspaper clippings and a bibliography on the subject.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder marked 'Drama' that includes school broadcast scripts and articles written by Sansom, relevant newspaper clippings and a bibliography on the subject.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder marked 'Tunes' containing clippings from newspapers and journals on pitch and inflection and Sansom 's notes on these topics.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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
Collection of Sketches and Extracts'
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder headed 'Collection of Sketches and Extracts' that includes Sansom's note 'Return to England' and references to his 'The Abominable Trade', 'These Happy Breeds' and 'Francis of Assis'i. The folder contains some writing by Robert Gittings, other passages about 'Home', and several jokes for acting and pieces used for speaking.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder containing background articles for teaching about film and television.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder marked 'Tape-Recording' containing a range of relevant British and Australian newspaper clippings and pamphlets.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder titled 'What Does it Mean?' containing material Sansom collected and used for teaching the topic.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder labelled 'Broadcasting' containing various articles and notes on the subject including one prepared by Sansom.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder marked 'Business / Industry' containing six articles by others on oral communication in the business world.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder headed 'A.C. Black'. This contains several letters to and from the publisher about Sansom's proposed book of story rhymes and about the publisher's rejection of his book of poems 'This Happy Breed'.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder headed 'Autobiography' containing Sansom's short handwritten and typed drafts of the early sections of the book describing his childhood experiences, family life and school days. There are also many brief handwritten memos and quotes from writers pertinent to his autobiography, including a note that his proposed title for this was 'Finding my Words: A Poet's Beginnings'. Other material comprises several relevant letters about and reviews of Sansom's publications, including Fred Nicholson's review of 'Francis of Assisi', Sansom's review of John Fuller's 'Epistles to Several Persons', letters from his brother Len, a poem Sansom wrote at the age of 16, Sansom' s humorous letter to the artist Max Angus, and an obituary written by Ron James and published in the journal 'Speech and Drama' (England) following Sansom's death.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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'.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder labelled 'American Speech' containing newspaper cuttings and conference programs on the topic. Two unrelated items in the folder are articles by others titled 'John Clare Country' and 'The Classical Face of Bath'.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Folder headed 'labelled by Sansom "Auto"' [Autobiography]. This contains: newspaper and journal cuttings of background material relating to London life at the time of Sansom's childhood and early adult life; published critical responses to his first collection of verse 'In the Midst of Death'; Sansom's letters to the Times on the role of scientists in creating the atom bomb; copy of a press report about Speech in schools and the work of Ruth Sansom; a letter from 'Tim' titled 'The Second Epistle of Timothy to the Sansomonians'; copies of poems probably read by Sansom during his school days; copy of the London Speech Festival Competitions of March 25 1939; Sansom's scribbled reminders of material for the 'Auto'; an article published in 'The Friend' (1971) by Ruth Sansom titled 'The Inner Journey'; photographs of places relating to Sansom' s childhood.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Orange plastic folder containing handwritten and typed copies of 'Clive's last poem, June 1979' ('Carol of the Three Nails'). Also a typed copy of a poem titled 'Jane Franklin's Journey'.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Three texts: 'Highgate and Hampshire', 'Old Southgate' and 'Winchmore Hill', publications that Sansom consulted when writing his autobiography.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Collections of journals containing Sansom's poems, articles, and plays. The poems include 'Nightmare', 'Dr Donne's Unwritten Sonnet', 'Tasmanian Scene', 'The Churchyard', 'Gypsy', 'Orchard', and 'Assisi'. Articles include 'The First Teacher: the Life and Religion of Akhenaten, 'My Job, Poet, etc', and 'We the Murderers'. There is also a copy ofSansom's short play for children titled 'At the Zoo' which includes some verse.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Green spring-back folder containing the typed manuscript of Sansom's unpublished text 'These Happy Breeds' - a book of poems about dogs.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Typed sheets tied with white string comprising three copies of Sansom's unpublished manuscript 'Definitions, Deft and Daft'. Sansom collected most of these from other sources.
Clive Sansom
This Quiet Dust: Epitaphs Real and Imagined
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Two red spring-back folders containing Sansom's unpublished manuscript titled 'This Quiet Dust: Epitaphs Real and Imagined' and two copies.
Clive Sansom
History and locale of North London
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Parcel of collected materials about the history and locale of North London, described in a note as 'Archival' material which would delight a North London Librarian, eg Winchmore Hill. These are old books and pamphlets on that area. The parcel also contains copies of Sansom' s letters about conservation issues sent to English newspapers and journals during the 1930s.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
The Voice that Tempted Eve and other Auditory Observations
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Green spring-back folder labelled 'Miscellaneous' containing typed manuscripts of Sansom's short story 'Old Frank' and his radio play 'Immortal Evening (December 28th, 1817)'. Characters depicted in this play include Keats, Limb and Wordsworth.
Clive Sansom
Strange Goings On: Verses for Children
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Correspondence from Nan Delaney
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Brown folder containing correspondence from Nan Delaney.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Brown folder containing various letters mainly from Beatrice Desfosses (American speech educator) and Margaret Willy ( one-time editor of the journal "English").
Clive Sansom
Letters to and from Rodney and Joan Bennett
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Cream folder containing letters to and from Rodney and Joan Bennett. These letters (predominantly from 1936-1948) focus on Sansom and R. Bennett's individual writing and their collaboration with school texts. The most recent letter is dated 23/11/73. The folder includes one letter from Winifred Scott about Sansom's "Speech Rhymes", and part of a letter from an unidentified correspondent.
Clive Sansom
Letters to and from Walter and Sylvia Stiasny
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Letters to and from Walter and Sylvia Stiasny. Walter Stiasny was a musician and was appointed musical director and conductor of the National Theatre and Fine Arts Society at the Theatre Royal.
Clive Sansom
Letters regarding the London Speech lnstitute
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Cream folder of letters to and from Mickey and Kathleen Needham-Hursts about a proposed visit to Tasmania and affairs of the London Speech lnstitute.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Brown folder containing letters from Rose Bruford, founder of the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. These comment on Sansom's "The Cathedral and The Witnesses" and productions and readings of these works in England.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Brown manila folder titled 'Biographical' and containing a number of Sansom's letters to others, including letters to and from Hermann Pleschmann and Robert Swire, Sansom's letters about Speech and Drama activities and the teaching of poetry, Sansom's letters to teachers in response to numerous requests for advice and information, to 'Aunt Bee', to the ABC, to Allan Keeling (references here to Truchanas, B. Hean, Max Oldaker and Sansom's personal writing).
Clive Sansom
Letters relating to Sansom's illness
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Letters relating to the Society of Friends
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Brown folder of letters, some relating to the Society of Friends during a period extending from the 1940s to the 1980s. Sansom's letters to 'Uncle Harry', to Martin Miles, Martin's brother George and letters from Martin Miles and his mother Hilda Miles. Sansom's letter to an unidentified correspondent referring to Jonathan Field and Sansom's texts on speech rhymes. Letters from Rodney Bennett, Allan Keeling, W. Kingdom-Ward and Kathleen Needham-Hurst. Letter from the editor of The Aryran Path. Sansom's draft article titled 'Mutation'. Letter from the Hobart City Eisteddfod Society acknowledging receipt of money from the Helen Power Memorial Fund to be invested and used for an annual award to competitors in the poetry-writing sections of the Eisteddfod. Circular letter from Ruth Sansom in the late 1980s to members of the Society of Friends about the Society's attitude to homosexuality and aids, together with replies from various members. Ruth Sansom's correspondence with Roger and Catherine Bayes on spiritual matters and copy of a prayer of thanksgiving from the Gnostic library of the Pachomian Monastery of Nag Hammadi sent to Ruth by Roger Bayes. Draft clause of Ruth Sansom's Will bequeathing money to Sarah Buckland.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Cream folder containing letters from Lina Wake about the Dorset Society and the publication of the Society's annual poetry anthologies.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Brown folder marked 'Letters to keep'. These cover a range of topics including Amnesty International, the ABC, St Anne's Rest Home (where Sansom assisted with the library and donated books), Jennifer Filby of the Rosny Children's Choir, the Arts Club, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Society of Authors, and Sansom's subscription to The West Country Magazine. A letter from Rae Hogg (niece of Helen Power) thanking Sansom for his broadcast on her aunt's life and work.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Manila folder titled 'Odd letters' from people such as Walter de la Mare, Norma McAuley, Thomas Moult, Nan Chauncy, John Winter (about the publication of a book of poems in honour of James McAuley), Margaret Brown, E.W. Nicholas, W. Kingdom Ward, Anne Kurt and Frieda Hodgeson (LAMDA). Tributes to Sansom from Bob Brown and Don Kay. Life Membership certificate presented to Clive and Ruth Sansom by the Tasmanian Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama. A letter from 'Dan' [Roberts?] written from Assisi in 1964, and one from 'Brigit[?] to Ruth Sansom in 1983. Section of a handwritten letter from Sansom to 'Allan' [Keeling?] dated September I 4th.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Copy of a verse play titled "Culbin Sands" by Gordon Bottomley. This appears to be the director's copy. Sansom may have directed or acted in the play.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
White manila folder containing letters of criticism about Sansom's poems written for his collection "An English Year" and dealing with questions such as lack of Tasmanian subjects and the poet's other works. See letter from Kathleen Needham-ÂHurst and Sansom's reply. Writers include Robert Gittings, Stephen C. Schultz, Peter Heam, Constance Barrington-Smith, James Reeves, Daniel Jones, Charles Kohler, Ron Shields, Martin Haley and a postcard from W.H. Auden. Other correspondence deals with Sansom's draft autobiography "I Find My Voice", the 'Society of Dorset Men', the Thomas Hardy Society, Sansom's work at LAMDA and his joint publications with Rodney Bennett. Some letters include Sansom's comments about his and others' poetry. The folder includes letters to Ruth Sansom from Mavis and Ron James following the publication of Sansom's poems after his death and a Vice-Regal invitation to Ruth Sansom to a reception for the Seventh National Drama in Education Conference held in Hobart.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Manila folder containing at least a dozen letters from Nan Chauncy.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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?].
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Black folder containing correspondence from Rupert Hart-Davis, Anne McAllister, Richard Flatter, T.H. Pear, Hewlett Johnson (Dean of Canterbury), Sylvia Lynd, Philip Mairet, Dennis Fry, J. Compton, Daniel Roberts (including two from Clive Sansom to Roberts), John Moore, Arthur Thompson (references herein to Walter de la Mare, and two letters from Sansom to Thompson), Gwynneth Thurbum,
M.A. Richardson, Peter Hearn and two unidentified writers. The folder is prefaced with a list of correspondents; that listed from Rex Ingarnells is not in the folder.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Brown folder of correspondence from people such as Leonard Clark, Bishop Cranswick, Archbishop Young, Ron James, Leslie Greener, Thomas Moult, Dorothy Hewlett, J.C. Trewin, Charles Kohler, Tony Allan, Peter Heam, Hugh Mack.indoe, Clifford Dyment, James Day, Vicars Bell, Alan Searle, Iva Browe[?], Ashley Dickes, Ron James, Rolf Gardiner, John Gainsworth (The Poetry Society) Val Gilgud, Redwood Anderson, Wallace Nichols, Nikolaus Pevsner, A.W.R. Milligan, Hewlett Johnson (Dean of Canterbury) and Clare Soper. One small bundle of letters groups together messages from ecelesiastics in response to Sansom's religious drama.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Brown envelope of letters to and from Sansom and his brother Len Sansom.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Program for a 'Masters of Melody' concert performance of the cantata "There is an Island" held 1 July 1977.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Sansom's handwritten poems in a green and violet covered notebook marked with the archive number DX 18 SAS 88.36. Frontispiece contains Ruth Sansom's poem to her husband. The book is annotated 'Before marriage' and there is at least one further annotation in Ruth Sansom's handwriting. Poems include 'Chopin Noetume', 'The Mirror', 'The Greyhound', 'Sonnet', 'The Voyager', 'Words cannot save', 'Millstream', Spring-Yellow', 'Convalescence', 'The Birds", and 'Nightingale'. Sansom has added pencilled amendments to some of the poems.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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".
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Theatre program for the production of Sansom's "The Witnesses" at St David's Cathedral, Hobart, 3 June 1970.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.'"
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Music score for Sansom's cantata "There is an Island". Words by Sansom and music by Don Kay, dated April 1977.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Selected and introduced by Clive Sansom, published 1964 by Robert Hale, London. Typescript, page proof, published copy.
Clive Sansom
Clive Sansom's correspondence with Helen Power and Rae Hogg
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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).
Clive Sansom
Publication of "A lute with three strings"
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Diaries of Ruth Sansom mostly written in carbon copy notebooks (sometimes both carbon copy and torn out top copies exist), written intermittently:-
1934 Voyage to England (2 notebooks)
1934-36 Early days at the Speech Institute - critical of friends, lonely, London, visit to Cotswolds, teaching, vacation schools, Plymouth, King's Jubilee celebrations (loose pages and notebook)
1936-37, 1938-39 Engagement to Clive, holiday in Bavaria and Austria, married Clive at Quaker Meeting House, Winchmore Hill, war impending - Chamberlain (1938) (1 notebook)
1936 Bavarian holiday. Also notes 1945, 1946 (notebook - part unused)
September 1939 War Diary (loose pages and notebook)
1940 War-time diary (notebook - partly unused)
1940 War-time diary, also typed transcription (loose pages, typescript)
1939-1942 War-time diary (carbon notebook)
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Notes for the "semi-retreat" and the "day of harmony", note on silence or "stillness".
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Tributes to Clive Sansom by friends, edited with biographical notes on contributors by Ruth Sansom.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Clive's poem "Innsbruck Bells" one of the poems read at the memorial meeting.
Clive Sansom
Photograph album - Clive and Ruth Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Family photographs of Clive and Ruth Sansom.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Preservation of England (1930-32), Lake Pedder (1967), stone buildings (1968-69), Lenah Valley sawmill (1970-78), Mount Stuart Community study (1977).
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Conservation, Clive Sansom patron of Tasmanian Wilderness Society (1980), newscuttings, circulars, letters, tribute to Clive Sansom (1981).
Clive Sansom
Photograph album - Sansom family
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Family photographs of Clive and brother as children, ?parents and grandparents, ?brother's children (photographs not labelled or dated).
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Address book - "commercial travellers journal with Newton Chambers & Co. (c1928-34); notebooks (very rough notes and drafts), word notebook.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Cuttings of published poems, reviews, articles, short stories, letters to newspapers.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Drawings of countryside, life studies, still life studies; illustrated manuscript of copies of poetry; "Christmas Fun" 1923, 1924, 1925 (booklets of drawings, jokes, etc. for Christmas); topographical studies of Norfolk, Southern England, Wales, with notes.
Clive Sansom
Educational toy: time telling clock
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Short stories published in German magazines
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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).
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Book reviews for Nation Review
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Clive Sansom's reviews: typescripts, cuttings and some correspondence.
Clive Sansom
Autobiography: I find my voice
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Early autobiography by Clive Sansom (family and childhood to 1926), and copy of first chapter sent to Australian Literature Board (typescript).
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Publication for the Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, including typescript, notes, correspondence.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Including Speech Institute Course and lectures (1938, 1947), notes and quotations, Sunday School Teachers' Conference (1963).
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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).
Clive Sansom
Poetry and Religious Experience
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Lecture at Friends House, London, 7 March 1948: correspondence, draft, typed copy, printed pamphlet, reprint 1978 with introduction by Charles Kohler and "afterword".
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Including: Edward Bonner (February 1938 manuscript); Behold this Dreamer (typescript no date); The head and the heart (Farnham 1948 typescript); Religion and Art (1949 typescript), Friends School (1951); Friends Annual Conference 1952: Our faith and service (see also cutting book DX18/79 (2)); peace testimony Town Hall, Hobart (30 July 1958); religious broadcasts, Word and Vision (1960); Meditations (21 December 1961, 2 January, 31 January, 28 February, 26 August, 1 November 1962); Quakerism and the Arts (September 1963); Quakers and Peace (December 1963); The religious basis of our Peace Testimony (no date, typescript); Quakers and the Sacraments (no date, typescript); Should religious education be abolished? (no date, typescript notes for discussion); The First Teacher (no date, typescript); "Spiritual Canticles". See also "An evening with the Quakers" June 1937 in cutting book DX18/79(1) p.12).
Clive Sansom
Recitals by Clive and Ruth Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Notes, programs, correspondence.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Miscellaneous correspondence on religious and Quaker matters.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
"Lady Franklin's Journey": notes, draft, script, correspondence.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Correspondence about fees, copyright, "Convergence on Bethlehem" etc.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Senior English: "Imagery in poetry", draft and script.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Christmas poems and play commissioned by the A.B.C. 1970: manuscript, typescript, correspondence, broadcast script, notes, etc.
Clive Sansom
BBC Interlude: The Son of Man sets out from Heaven
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Typescript. No date.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Typescript (for BBC 194-), letter from ABC about broadcast (1952, letter from ABC and script (1970).
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
A cantata commissioned by the Rosny Children's Choir, music by Don Kay, words by Clive Sansom: correspondence on fees and routine matters, drafts, typescripts, news cuttings, etc. rough notes.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Words by Clive Sansom to Saint-Saens' Suite: script, correspondence - broadcast and concert performances.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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".
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Opera for Children's Theatre, music by Don Kay: drafts.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Clive Sansom's version of Mozart's operetta, including typescripts, published copies of original and other versions, and correspondence.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
The Voice that tempted Eve and other Auditory Observations, no date
Part of Clive Samson Collection
A collection of sayings on speech collected by Clive Sansom manuscript and typescript draft (not published).
Clive Sansom
Song games - music by Richard Graves
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Correspondence with Richard Graves and David Higham (author's agent) about poems and music.
Clive Sansom
On the speaking of Shakespeare
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Originally published for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the late 1940s: letter from LAMDA asking if it could be republished (October 1977): duplicated typescript, draft, notes, correspondence with Bodley Head.
Clive Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
"The quality of language" off-print from Spoken English (Journal of the English Speaking Board) London, vol. 7 no. 2 May 1974, and shortened version for New Zealand Education magazine; "Australian speech" (typescript, no date); "We the Murderers: a study in poeticide" (typescript - lecture to teachers, no date); "Why read faster?" (1970); "Professor Higgins - imposter". Also (b) foreword by Clive Sansom for Bruce Proverbs' book "Business Communication and correspondence".
Clive Sansom
Stories for Acting, Ruth Sansom
Part of Clive Samson Collection
Correspondence with agent and publishers (publisher not found).
Clive Sansom