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Diaries of Ruth Sansom; and notes for a Friends Meeting in 1985.

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.

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)

Personal papers. photographs and correspondence relating to Helen Power (1870-1957), Tasmanian poet

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

Personal papers and correspondence, radio broadcast scripts, poetry and notes for autobiography

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

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'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.

Personal papers and correspondence, poetry and plays

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

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.'"

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

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

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.

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.

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".

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?].

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.

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.

Brown envelope of letters to and from Sansom and his brother Len Sansom.

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.

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.

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.

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-­Hurst 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.

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).

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.

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.

Cream folder containing letters from Lina Wake about the Dorset Society and the publication of the Society's annual poetry anthologies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unpublished documents and manuscripts and published journal articles

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.

Brown folder containing correspondence from Nan Delaney.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

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'.

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'.

Collection of newspaper clippings, articles on business and industry also teaching materials and school broadcast scripts and articles

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.

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

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'.

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.

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

Folder labelled 'Broadcasting' containing various articles and notes on the subject including one prepared by Sansom.

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 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.

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.

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?'

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

Folder with articles on listening and discrimination, and a copy of Sansom's letter to the principal of Kingston Primary School.

Folder marked 'Drama' that includes school broadcast scripts and articles written by Sansom, relevant newspaper clippings and a bibliography on the subject.

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

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.

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

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.

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

(i)
• Handwritten notes apparently relating to Sansom's autobiography.
• The program for performances of Die Fledermaus at the Theatre Royal, 9-19 March 1955. Sansom produced the opera and wrote the dialogue. 'Our Moral Obligation'
• Copy of Sansom's address to the Tasmanian Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
• The wedding speech Sansom wrote for Brian Paine in 1974.
• Copy of Branich's [?] poem 'The Monk in the Kitchen'.
• Short story by Reverend Howard Schode [?].
(ii) Copy of Lloyd James' pamphlet ‘Talks on English Speech’.
(iii)
• Christmas card 1946
• Sansom's statement to the Military Tribunal in which he opposed military service in the Second World War.
• Owen Reid's article on Sansom published in the journal Tasmanian Education.
• Sansom's diary notes for 1961 mentioning a visit to Dorchester, to Hardy Country, to Dorset, to Glastonbury, and his meeting with Canon Dawson (to discuss a recital of poems from The Cathedral).
• Sansom's notes for a talk on 'Writing Poetry' - 1975.
• List of poems for a reading by Sansom at Richmond, Tasmania.
• Selected quotes from reviews of The Witnesses.
• Sansom's biographical details that he provided on request to a parent. Two copies of the text of Sansom's talk titled 'One Poet's Job' with an attachment about his early life.
• Sansom's handwritten notes on God and Imagination.
• Sansom's brief notes on his life and career that he prepared for entry in the International 'Who's Who in Poetry.
• A note about Sansom's poetry reading that he presented in Canberra 8 September 1974.
• Sansom's address to the 6th Biennial Assembly of the Australian Society of Education through the Arts on 21/9/76, Also notes on a talk he gave on 22 January 1976.
• Two handwritten copies of poems from Dorset Village.
• A printed sheet containing four of Sansom's poems on Tasmanian themes, Extracts from reviews of The Unfailing Spring and The Witnesses,
• Two typed poems by Sansom: 'A Recipe for Bones' and 'At Miss Austen's Grave'.
• Typed version of Sansom's article 'Poetry Reading and Appreciation', Sansom' s article about The Witnesses.
• Several typed pages of Sansom's poems.
• Extracts from reviews of In the Midst of Death and The Witnesses
(iv)
• Sansom's notes prepared for his introduction of Judith Wright at the Town Hall - 15 March 1972.
• Sansom's speech at the memorial service for Brenda Hean - 29 September 1972.
• Copies of several small advertisements about Lake Pedder, which Sansom placed in the Mercury.
• The text of Sansom' s speech about Lake Pedder - 'A Place Apart from all Others'.
(v)
Quaker material including:
• Copy of an edition of The Australian Friend containing Sansom 's article on 'The Religious Basis of Peace Testimony'.
• Draft typescript of the above article.
• Program for Quakers' Yearly Meeting 1972 at which Sansom and his wife spoke on music and poetry.
• Two copies of a talk and reading presented to the Yearly Quaker Meeting on January 9th 1971.
• Submission to a Senate Committee on Children's Television.
• Newspaper and magazine clippings about school assemblies and religion in schools.
• Program for a presentation to Quakers on 24 November 1973 on the subject of St Francis of Assisi.
• A draft of Sansom's article titled 'York Minster'.
• Minutes of two Friends' meetings -25 July and 28 September 1975.
• 'The Timeless Moment' extracts from poets and writers and Sansom's work, compiled by Sansom.
(vi) Speech education material by Sansom and others:
• Material from University of Michigan 21/8/56.
• Zoe Community School.
• Newsletter of Tasmanian Education Department Speech Centre, October 1970.
• Topics for talks.
• Range of clippings about speech and talking.
• Noel Atkins' demonstration lesson on speech education.
• Sansom's letter of advice to Sister Canice of Thomas Moore School. Articles on group discussion, 'How we Speak', oral language and impromptu talks. Sansom wrote most of these.

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

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

Collection of personal correspondence between Clive and Ruth Sansom. Will, marriage certificate and other miscellaneous document

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Pale blue scrapbook containing copies of poems and handwritten quotes from a number of writers, compiled by Sansom.

A brown envelope addressed to Ruth Sansom, Mount Stuart, containing some of Sansom's letters to his wife written from the 1930s through to the 1980s.

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

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

Green scrapbook containing more poems from a number of writers.

Black/ grey scrapbook containing clippings of paintings and sketches.

Collection of miscellaneous correspondence and copies of letters to the newspapers, autobiographical notes, genealogy and family tree, book and poetry notes

Brown manila folder marked 'Miscellaneous' containing:
• Sansom's typewritten 'Did Jesus have a sense of humour?'
• Typed copies of poems that Sansom submitted to journals. These include 'Genie', 'The Enchanted Wood', 'The White Horse', 'Widdershins', 'The Swan', and 'Dr Donne's Unwritten Sermon'.
• A typed article by Sansom titled 'Religion and Art'.
• Copy of the Tasmanian Association for Teachers of Drama in Education's annual report 1977-78 mentioning life membership awards to Clive and Ruth Sansom.
• Typed text of 'Swithin of Winchester'.
• Copy of Sansom's article 'Keats's Accent', published in the Keats-Shelley Memorial volume.
• Typed 'mock-up' of These Happy Breeds with drawings by Max Angus.
• The Sansom' s family tree.
• Two maps of southern England's roads.
• Copy of Daily Express edition of Tuesday 21 June 1910, the date of Clive Sansom's birth.
• Sansom 's handwritten notes on technology, on intuitive thinking, and on Jean Holm and religious education.
• Several printed copies of Sansom 's biographical and publication information. LAMDA workshop program 1978 at which Sansom spoke about ‘The Witnesses’.
• A small Croxley notebook containing Sansom's notes made during a visit to Europe in 1961 referring to cities such as Rome, Naples, and Venice, and a draft of his poem about bells.
• Cutting from the Sunday Times of21 October 1990 about Hilary Spurling,
• Paul Scott and the Sansoms.
• Draft of the Sansom family tree.
• Miscellaneous correspondence, held together by a paper clip, from publishers, the Thomas Hardy Society, R. L. Wimbush, the Francisean Herald Press, Len Sansom and an archivist about Diocesan records of the Sansom family. This includes a copy of one of Sansom's letters to his brother Len.
• A University of London folder containing a copy of Clive Sansom's birth Certificate and his School Certificate.

Brown folder headed 'Clive- Letters' and 'Copies of Clive Sansom's Letters to Papers' including:
• Letters to various people describing Sansom' s experiences of the London bombing during the war.
• Letter to Aunt Bee.
• To "Babe' (an early girl friend), 14 April 1935.
• To Rodney Bennett referring to Miss Gullan, 28 Dec 1936.
• To Rodney Bennett, 4 January 1937.
• To Aunt Bee, 4th October[?]
• Handwritten notes on range of topics.
• To George West, 4 January and 18 December 1937.
• To Williams at Oxford Press, 26 February 1937.
• To Martin Miles about a poetry reading recital, 25 and 27 January 193 7. To Miss Gullan, 26 February 1938.
• To the Listener on choral speaking, 5 June 194 J.
• To TLS on the current war, 17 September 1941.
• Typed copies of Sansom's poems: 'Renaissance', 'Fidele Chorus, 1940', 'Sonnet July 1940',
• one untitled, 'To Gerard Manly Hopkins', 'Fidele', 'Poem – July 1940'.
• Letter to Ray[?] about the German bombing, 30 August 1940.
• Handwritten notes, which appear to be a diary of a trip.
• To News Chronicle about German sterilization claims, 24 January 1940, and on 31 January 1941 about pronunciation.
• A limerick.
• Letter to a newspaper[?] about G.M. Hopkins.
• To Richard Church on 5 October 1940 in response to his comments on Sansom's first book of poetry.
• To Sedgwick and Jackson about errors in their publication Prefaces to Shakespeare, 6 October 1940.
• Handwritten letter [incomplete] from Martin Miles to Clive while serving in the army.
• To TLS about a published review and the state of affairs in Britain, 2 November 1940.
• Letter from Air Raid Warden/Officer on 31 May 1940 advising that there were no vacancies for training.
• To Penguin Books pointing out errors in a recent publication, 2 April 1940.
• To an unidentified newspaper/journal responding to a reader's query.
• From Oscar Browne about pronunciation.
• To an unidentified correspondent about lines in poetry, 15 May 1941.
• To Christian World about the war, l May 1941.
• Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'Invocation'.
• To Hermann Pleschmann about T.S. Eliot on 26 November 1945.
• To C.A. West about the Speech Institute.
• Cutting from a newspaper, Sansom 's letter about Keats's cockney accent. Clippings from newspaper/journal correspondence columns on the subject of phonetics and Sansom's Speech Rhymes, from Sansom, Oscar Browne and Elsie Fogarty.
• Poem 'Come Harvest' in ten parts, apparently written by Sansom.
• To Stanley Godman on 27 August 1941 providing a summary of Sansom's activities during the Second World War.
• To Miss Ames about lectures on speech in the army, 22 July 1942.
• To Jordan Smallfield on 20 August 1942 about speech education at the college.
• To Stella Mead on 28 July 1942 about a proposed poetry anthology of New Zealand and Australian verse.
• To Mr Day (Landlord) about rent payments, 12 July 1943.
• To John O' London on 17 July 1943 about Keats's accent.
• To an unidentified periodical on the matter of verse versus poetry ('When is it Poetry?').
• To Mr Cole on 29 September 1943 about religious education.
• To Mr Waller-Bridge on 3 November 1943 about the sale of apples.
• To Miss Birkinshaw on 3 January 1943 about a good speech examiner.
• Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'I am a Leaf.
• To John O' London on 7 August 1940 about the title of a book, The Poet Speaks. To News Chronicle on 14 August 1940 about taxes on books.
• Letter to 'R.B.' (Rodney Bennett) about examining Speech and Margaret Mead's poems, 17 July 1945.
• Two pages of a handwritten letter to an unidentified correspondent.
• To 'R.B.' (Rodney Bennett) on 7 November 1946,
• Sansom's review of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral published in Christian Drama.
• Letter to an unidentified journal about radio announcers.
• The Sansoms' circular Christmas Letter of December 1952.
• Letter to Saturday Evening Mercury complaining about an article on the Brownings.
• The Sansoms' circular Christmas letter of November 1957.
• Two letters to The Mercury about Battery Point and conservation issues (1958).
• To the Examiner on 20 June 1962 about a local drama performance.
• The Sansoms' Christmas circular letter for 1965.
• Letter to Thomas Moult about the 1967 bushfires and Clive Sansom's retirement plans.
• To the Australian about copyright, 23 January 1968.
• To Mercury about Battery Point, 30 July 1968.
• To an unidentified newspaper/journal about censorship, 20 June 1969.
• Typed extracts from several poets and a copy of a poem by W. Cantan.
• To brother Len Sansom on 18 August 1970.
• To Rev. James Day about The Witnesses and other Sansom publications, 24 May 1976.
• To Quaker Greenwood about sound boosting in the meeting room, 23 December 1977.
• To a London Bookshop about some purchases, 15 February 1978.
• To Don Kay about a production of 'Rapunzel', 15 September 1978.
• To Charles Kohler on 15 September 1978 about copies of Poetry and Religious Experience.
• To Charles Menden at the Guildhall School of Music about an examination syllabus, 15 September 1978.
• To Senator Michael Townley about copyright matters on 15 September 1978.
• To David Higham Associates on 30 May 1979 about permission to use poems from The Cathedral.
• To TLS about propaganda and the war, 16 August 1941.
• To David Higham, publisher about reprinting The Witnesses, 30 May 1979.
• To A.D. Haigh (Mount Stuart) about the preservation of old buildings, 30 July 1979.
• To the Tasmanian Mail about an article on religion, JO August 1979.
• To Hilary Webster about two of his Tasmanian poems, 10 August 1979.
• To Sylvia (Stiasny) about Kipling's poems and references to fairies, 26 July 1979. Part of Sansom's letter about a poet whose poem 'The Dreamer' is admired.
• Part of Sansom's report on a candidate's performance.
• Program of a performance of Euripides' Alcestis by the London Verse
• Speaking Choir on April I 19[?] in which Clive Sansom spoke the part of the God Apollo.

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.

Copy of Adventures in Words Books 2 and 3 by Clive Sansom and Rodney Bennett published in 1939.