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Group of letters labelled 'To Clive' from the Thomas Hardy Society, the Tasmanian Mail, the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, Carina Robins and E.P. Holton.

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

Material labelled 'Speech Matters'. This includes a LAMDA pamphlet advertising a course for teachers including a workshop by Sansom on choral speaking, a copy of the Speech Fellowship newsletter edited by Sansom, a notice of the International Arts Centre's Summer Session 1947 at which Sansom presented a poetry reading of works from Hardy, Housman and Hopkins, an article by Sansom on the purpose of verse speaking, and letters to and from Sansom on matters relating to LAMDA administration, the Society of Speech Therapists and Sansom's Speech Rhymes.

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'.

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 The folder contains four series of handwritten notes about the management of Sansom's published works and unpublished manuscripts should he die, and two typewritten pages dealing with house deeds, life insurance policy, royalties on published works, disposal of books and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.

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.

Correspondence from the National Book Council, London.

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'.

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.

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.

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[?].

Manila Folder headed 'Letters from friends not so well-known but worth keeping':
• Roger Venables 6/10/42; P.R. Bing 24/8/42;
• Stella Mead 18/10/43 and 26/1/44;
• Telfer Dennis (cousin) to Ruth Sansom 7/12/81;
• Jonathan Field 'Saturday';
• H.E. Brown of the Uni of London Press 4/11/40;
• Roger Manvell 12/8/44 and 29/8/44 about his contribution to Sansom's Speech in our Time;
• Kathleen Cunningham of LAMDA 14/5/44;
• Tim Evens 10/12/78;
• Paul Arnott (nephew) 4/7/78 and 19/7/78 (post cards);
• Harold Ripper 18/12 1966 about a poem by Sansom 'The Crib at Greecio';
• Betty Rainer in April 1959 and 6 January 1960 about Sansom' s The World of Poetry.
• Fearn Rowntree 'Friday afternoon' advising Clive Sansom on work habits and providing information about her own life;
• Nia Thomas to Ruth about Clive's death 27/7/81;
• Jim and Barbara Roberts to Ruth 28/7/81;
• Hilary Outhwaite to Ruth 20/4/82;
• Lina Wake to Ruth 22/5/82;
• Maida [?] to Ruth 8/12/81 and 19/12/81;
• Joan[?] December 1981;
• Evelyn Abraham 3/9/47;
• Dorothy Gear 4/4/79;
• W. Smith 28/9/41;
• Ralph Wightman 27/8/66;
• Eileen Holmes (nd);
• Henry Nix 10/7/41 (official notification of milk supply during the war period).
• Copies of letters from Sansom to Dorothy Belcher, Patsy Adam-Smith and Charles Kohler.

Manila Folder marked 'LAMDA' [London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]
• Pamphlet about the Speech Fellowship's aims, objectives and activities.
• Letter from Peter [Hearn?] of 17/8/61 about Sansom's help with a LAMDA lecture on The Witnesses while on a visit to England in 1961.
• LAMDA flyers advertising a refresher course for teachers on 31 July and I August [no year given, although probably in the early 1940s because of the assurance that entrance fees would be refunded if non-attendance was the result of 'enemy action']. Sansom directed a session of Choral Speaking Practice and participated in a 'Brains Trust on Speech'.
• LAMDA flyer advertising a refresher course for teachers on 25 July and 26 July 1947 at which Clive and Ruth Sansom presented an explanatory lecture on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land followed by an oral reading of the entire poem.
• LAMDA pamphlet about training courses for teachers in elocution and dramatic art.
• Brochure of the London Co-operative Society outlining a series of twelve speech training classes conducted by the Speech Fellowship.
• Three letters to Sansom from Wilfred Foulis, Governing Director of LAMDA, about examining strategies and administrative matters relating to the Academy, 2/1/40, 4/1/40 and I 0/5/40.
• Letter dated 16/1 /? to Sansom from a teacher of elocution seeking advice about examination standards.

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[?].

Plain/Clear plastic envelope marked 'Collector's Items' containing a list titled 'Clive Sansom Letters Index'. This is an incomplete alphabetical list of people with whom Sansom corresponded during his life.

Clear Plastic envelope marked 'Permission to quote in ‘The World of Poetry'.
• Brief letters from writers who gave Clive Sansom permission to use extracts from their writing in his anthology ‘The World of Poetry’: Elizabeth Drew, Aldous Huxley, Basil Willey, E.M. Forster, James Devaney, E.M.W. Tillyard, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, George Whalley, G. Wilson Knight, Herbert Read, David Campbell, I.A. Richards, Richard Wilbur, John Ciardi, W.R. Rodgers, Cynthia Asquith, Rosamond E.M. Harding, John Lehman, F.R. Leavis, H.G. Garrod, Erich Heller, Sir George Hamilton, P. Gurrey, Max Eastman and three others whose signatures are indecipherable.
• Letters from James Kirkup, V.S. Pritchett and Robert Graves indicating their refusal to grant this permission.
• The file also contains correspondence from Poetry Review (acknowledging receipt of a poem), Robert Speight (commenting on The Witnesses), Dal Stivens (about copyright), Geoffrey Dutton ( acknowledging Sansom' s letter pointing to errors in one of Dutton's publications), M. Beatrice Forman (about her publication of Keats's letters), N. Pevsner (acknowledging
• Sansom's letter about errors in his publication of a text on the buildings of England), Patricia Excell of Meanjin (acknowledging a poem Sansom had submitted), Patrick Garland (acknowledging receipt of a drama script).

Manila Folder headed 'Poems Doubles and Children's Rhymes'
This contains thirty poems and a verse-drama written by Ruth Sansom. Most are typed, but several are handwritten: 'Christ Triumphant'; 'The Way'; 'May the World be born in Oneness'; 'Taipan'; 'We met on a Journey'; 'Testament of inner Experience'; 'Sitting at the Wellhead'; 'The Adversary'; 'The New Man'; 'Song of the Holy Spirit'; 'The Hand that Swept the Lyre'; 'Son of Man'; 'The Three Kings'; 'One Note of Music'; 'The Grace of His Coming'; 'Philomel'; 'His Voice'; 'The Word was Shared'; 'Eternal Spirit', 'Drifting', 'Divine Spirit'; 'The Return'; 'The New Dawn'; 'All is at Onement'; 'J Search for my Spirit'; 'The Bridge'; 'In the Valley of Death'; 'The Selfless One'; 'Who am I"; 'The Visitation'.
The file also contains preliminary drafts of some of these poems

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.

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.

Manila Folder headed 'Clive - writings and letters answered in scribbled handwriting'.
• Typed script of 'Nightmare Abbey' prepared by Sansom and based on Peacock's novel for an ABC broadcast 'Journeys into Bookland'.
• 'This Damned Hypocrisy', a handwritten nine-page essay written in response to the public furore about the proposed marriage of Mrs Simpson and King Edward.
• 'Last pages for "Fenley Green"', written in 1932 as part of a short story or novel.
• "'Macbeth" Retold by Dr. Fox'. Clive Sansomhaexcell's 'spoof' on Shakespeare's play.
• Typed copies of Sansom's poems: 'Saved (A Bride and Groom to the Rescue)', 'Our Party', 'Brenda Hean: Memorial Service, Scots Church, September 26th 1972', 'This little one ... '. Handwritten poems: 'Oxford, 1938', 'The Ballad of Midnight', 'Inscription for an Old Tomb', 'A Winter Entertainment' (written in a Christmas Card).
• Two personal documents (typewritten), one outlining Sansom's career as a lecturer and writer and listing referees, the other providing a case history of Sansom 's health problems prepared for Dr Greenward in 1972.
• Letters to and from Sansom: to Jim [?] providing a summary of Sansom 'straining, teaching and writing career,
• David Higham about the inclusion of his poem 'Ladybird' in an anthology,
• The Countryman about the inclusion of one of Sansom's poems in a publication,
• Patricia Wrightson seeking permission to include Sansom's 'The Intruder' in a collection of short stories and poetry for children and Sansom' s reply.
• A collection of material headed 'For Diary 1939' that includes notification that Sansom had passed examinations conducted by St John Ambulance Brigade, Southgate Division,
• handwritten copies of Sansom's poems 'August Holiday', 'The Old Road, Condicote' (three copies) and 'After the Raid',
• typed copies of 'Words Under Grass' and 'In the Midst of Death is Life ... '
• Six articles associated with rhythm in speech: two handwritten notes and a handwritten summary of material drawn from a work by F.E. Halliday, a photocopied page from a text by Robert Speight and two typewritten pages, one an extract from Samuel Selden' s The Stage in Action and the other a series of brief quotations.
• A brochure on the Spicelands Training Centre (Society of Friends).
• A photograph of a lady and a pig with the caption 'The attack repulsed'.
• A typed list of the Patrons of the Speech Fellowship.
• A collection of material relating to Clive Sansom's autobiography that includes handwritten drafts, photocopies of sections from books, reminder notes and Sansom's autobiographical article 'My Job, Poet, etc' that appeared in The friend (August 32, 1973).

Brown foolscap envelope titled 'Photographs'. Only very few of these are annotated with names, places or dates. sorted into five bundles of photographs

Brown folder marked 'Poems' that comprises copies of letters Sansom received and wrote in 1939.
• Ten letters (several undated and l incomplete) from Allan Keeling and a copy of one of Sansom' s replies.
• Five letters and a post card to the Sansoms from Martin Miles, and one addressed to Ruth Sansom only. Two letters to the Sansoms from Helen Miles, mother of Martin.
• Seven letters from Rodney Bennett.
• Five letters from Anny and Herbert Gunsburg [?]
• Two post cards and six letters from Marjorie Gullan.
• Two letters from Sansom's mother.
• Two letters from Sansom's aunt (Aunt Bee).
• Two letters from Len Sansom (Sansom's brother).
• One letter from Eric Savage and Sansom's reply.
• Single letters from Rolf Maass, Ruth's mother (19 Carr Street, North Hobart), Cicely Beardsall ( including her poem and Sansom' s reply), George Buchanan, Lewis W. Phillips, Marjorie Halben, Butch Levistein, J.R. Firth, and H.W. Chapman
• Copies of Sansom's letters to John O 'London's, The Listener and Palmers Green Gazette.
• Two newspaper clippings of Sansom's letters to the editor (unidentified papers and undated).
• Letter to Barclay's Bank.

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.

Seven scripts of ABC 'History for Grades III and IV' 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.

Two scripts of ABC 'From the Library Shelf 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.

Twenty-three scripts of ABC 'Spoken English' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Fifteen scripts of ABC 'Communication' 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.

Four scripts of ABC 'The Correspondence School speaks' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Ten scripts of ABC 'Once upon a time' 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.

Nine scripts ofmiscellancous ABC 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.

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

Sansom's notes on listening skills and a range of other material either collected or written by him.

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.

Segments of a typed manuseript 'England, The Love, Clive Sansom, by his wife Ruth'. This focuses on the Sansoms' war experiences with brief references to their association with Paul Scott. Some pages are missing.

Handwritten 'Chapter One' of Ruth's autobiography/ Clive Sansom's biography. The focus here is on Sansom's childhood in Palmers Green and his school days.

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

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.

Manila folder containing handwritten drafts of sections of Ruth Sansom' s autobiography, covering the period in England before the war, mamage to Clive Sansom, work at the Speech Institute, Sansom's poetry, association with the Quakers, and marriage and life in the 1970s. In the final section, Ruth Sansom explores and describes her mystical experiences and her religious faith.

Ruth Sansom' s handwritten autobiography - '1960s and mysticism'. This mentions work at the Tasmanian Speech Education Centre.

Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography that describes the Sansoms' last year in London (1950) and travel to Tasmania and early years in that State.

Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography. A number of drafts relating to different stages of her life. This mentions Martin Miles, recitals given by Clive Sansom and herself, Clive Sansom 's personal appearance and character, and the Sansoms' return to Tasmania in 1950. It discusses Sansom's published and unpublished works, their experiences at Spicelands Training Centre, their speech work in England and at the Tasmanian Education Department's Speech Education Centre. It includes a description of Clive Sansom's attitude to poetry and its writing, and provides an account of Sansom's final illness, death and memorial service.

Ruth Sansom's thoughts on homosexuality. This mentions Jonathon Field and Paul Scott, and discusses changing attitudes to homosexuality in later years.

Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography written from the perspective of the age of 85. This includes memories of her childhood in Tasmania and details of her family's history, associations with the Soundy family and Walter and Sylvia Stiasny, Diana Large, Nan Chauney, W.H.Perkins and Roy Chappell. It mentions the regular poetry reading sessions at the Sansom home in Mount Stuart, and includes her notes and thoughts on mysticism.

Brown manila folder headed 'Some late letters to Clive from Ruth after he died'. There are five handwritten letters which reflect on past events, work, habits, relationships, etc, mentioning people such as Marjorie Gullan, Gertrude Kerby, Mona Swan, Martin Miles and Robert Gittings. One of the letters describes Ruth Sansom's religious beliefs and concludes with her poem 'Sweet song of Eden ... '. Another reflects on the Sansoms' 1937 holiday in the Austrian Tyrol. Another mentions Hilary Spurling' s biography of Paul Scott.

Manila folder marked 'Miscellaneous' that includes:
• Four reproduced pencil sketches of Sansom.
• 'The New Alcestes' - a parody on Gilbert Murray by Sansom, written Easter 1933.
• ‘Rostra’ 16/2 July 1981 containing an obituary for Sansom written by Robert Bennett.
• A handwritten article by Ruth titled 'Clive in Satire and Parody after Paul's letters'. This was written following Hilary Spurling's visit to Hobart and reflects Ruth's responses to aspects of her husband's writings.
• Two poems in Ruth Sansom's handwriting titled 'Snake' and 'Indian Play'.
• Several loose pages in Ruth's handwriting that appear to be drafts of her memories of life with her husband.