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Fait partie de Clive Samson Collection
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
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Fait partie de Clive Samson Collection
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
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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.
Ruth Sansom
The Voice that tempted Eve and other Auditory Observations, no date
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A collection of sayings on speech collected by Clive Sansom manuscript and typescript draft (not published).
Clive Sansom
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Clear Plastic envelope marked 'Permission to quote in ‘The World of Poetry'.
• Brief letters from writers who gave Clive Sansom permission to use extracts from their writing in his anthology ‘The World of Poetry’: Elizabeth Drew, Aldous Huxley, Basil Willey, E.M. Forster, James Devaney, E.M.W. Tillyard, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, George Whalley, G. Wilson Knight, Herbert Read, David Campbell, I.A. Richards, Richard Wilbur, John Ciardi, W.R. Rodgers, Cynthia Asquith, Rosamond E.M. Harding, John Lehman, F.R. Leavis, H.G. Garrod, Erich Heller, Sir George Hamilton, P. Gurrey, Max Eastman and three others whose signatures are indecipherable.
• Letters from James Kirkup, V.S. Pritchett and Robert Graves indicating their refusal to grant this permission.
• The file also contains correspondence from Poetry Review (acknowledging receipt of a poem), Robert Speight (commenting on The Witnesses), Dal Stivens (about copyright), Geoffrey Dutton ( acknowledging Sansom' s letter pointing to errors in one of Dutton's publications), M. Beatrice Forman (about her publication of Keats's letters), N. Pevsner (acknowledging
• Sansom's letter about errors in his publication of a text on the buildings of England), Patricia Excell of Meanjin (acknowledging a poem Sansom had submitted), Patrick Garland (acknowledging receipt of a drama script).
Clive Sansom
Poems Doubles and Children's Rhymes
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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
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
The Correspondence School speaks
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Four scripts of ABC 'The Correspondence School speaks' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
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Tongue twisters, speech rhymes and associated notes either collected or written by Sansom.
Clive Sansom
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Segments of a typed manuseript 'England, The Love, Clive Sansom, by his wife Ruth'. This focuses on the Sansoms' war experiences with brief references to their association with Paul Scott. Some pages are missing.
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
Autobigraphy: drafts of sections
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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.
Clive Sansom
Handwritten autobiography: 1960s and mysticism
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Ruth Sansom' s handwritten autobiography - '1960s and mysticism'. This mentions work at the Tasmanian Speech Education Centre.
Clive Sansom
Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography
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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
BBC Interlude: The Son of Man sets out from Heaven
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Typescript. No date.
Clive Sansom
The Abominable Trade: a poet's notes on his profession ND
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Typescript, notes, application for grant, agent's correspondence.
Clive Sansom
Definitions Deft and Daft collected by Clive Sansom
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Draft (in alphabetic book), typescript.
Clive Sansom
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Draft novels [1930s or 40s]
(1) "Fenley Green" a novel based on Enfield Chase (Middlesex, UK) including notes on history of Enfield, sketches, drafts, with note at front by Ruth Sansom "These notes have value in showing how Clive worked first on place backgrounds before setting his characters and writing the chapters".
(2) "To Voltaire": rough draft of a novel set in Dorsetshire involving a scientist, Dr. Barnes, and a small boy.
Clive Sansom
Index to DX18 unaccessioned boxes
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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
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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
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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
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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
Letters to and from Walter and Sylvia Stiasny
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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
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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
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Unpublished documents and manuscripts and published journal articles
Clive Sansom
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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
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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
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Green spring-back folder containing the typed manuscript of Sansom's unpublished text 'These Happy Breeds' - a book of poems about dogs.
Clive Sansom
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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
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Three texts: 'Highgate and Hampshire', 'Old Southgate' and 'Winchmore Hill', publications that Sansom consulted when writing his autobiography.
Clive Sansom
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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
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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
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Folder titled 'What Does it Mean?' containing material Sansom collected and used for teaching the topic.
Clive Sansom
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Folder marked 'Questions' containing three relevant articles taken from newspapers and magazines.
Clive Sansom
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Folder with articles on listening and discrimination, and a copy of Sansom's letter to the principal of Kingston Primary School.
Clive Sansom
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Typed extracts from Sansom's unpublished text 'The Abominable Trade', focussing on specifics such as rhythm in speech, pace, repetition and alliteration.
Clive Sansom
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Collection of letters from Sansom to Ruth Sansom in a small stationery box marked 'Speedy Notes'.
Clive Sansom
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Pale blue scrapbook containing copies of poems and handwritten quotes from a number of writers, compiled by Sansom.
Clive Sansom
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Brown document folder marked 'Sansom's Family Tree' containing:
• folder marked 'Wills'.
• collection of notes on the name 'Sansom' in a white paper cover with paper clip. Plastic folder with notes about R. Browning's assoeiation with Dorset.
• folder of pieces 'Kept by Clive for his autobiography'.
• folder 'Registers from Pentridge- - the Sansom family'.
• folder on the genealogy of 'Fry'
• folder on the genealogy of 'Thurland'.
• folder on Cranbome Chase.
• folder on Owermoigne Village.
• folder with queries on genealogy and history.
• folder on the genealogy of Sansoms.
• folder on the genealogy of the Johnson family.
• folder on the Sansom/ Owermoigne connection.
• folder on Thomas Hardy and Owermoigne
• folder on Sixpenny Handley Glassage (Sansom family).
• Paper clipping on Robert Browning.
• folder on the Sansoms, notes about the family and their locations.
• folder with letters from Sansom's family.
• Collection of letters about family history in a white paper folder clip.
• folder with Sansom's notes on forebears at Owermoigne.
• Brown foolscap envelope headed 'Clive Biography': various letters and a family tree.
• folder holding the family tree.
Clive Sansom
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Three flyers advertising performances of 'Lipstick Dreams' at the Theatre Royal's Backspace, a concert of multicultural music at St David's Cathedral, and several publications of documentary histories of England.
Clive Sansom
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Copy of Sansom's 'Convergence on Bethlehem'- a Christmas program for Radio in 21 scenes, and poems' with explanatory notes.
Clive Sansom
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Brown folder marked 'Clive's Writings'. A series of jottings about travels in England and other short notes.
Clive Sansom
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Letters to Sansom from Richard Ailand, Rodney Bennett, Hugh Collinson, Patsy Adam Smith, Kathleen Bethley, Stanley Godman, P. Gurrey, E.M. Gunther, Alec Craig, Gertrude Kirby, Raynor C. Johnson, Clarissa Graves (sister of Robert Graves), Stella Mead, Roger Pilkington, Patricia Ledward, Alan Keeling, Fearn Rowntree, Cecil Roberts, S. George West, G. Wilson Knight, D. Metcalf (Secretary to H.G. Wells), W. Kingdom Ward, Gerald Bullett, John Yates, Elizabeth Buckmeilla [?], the University College Oxford Elizabeth Darvell (Tasmanian Association for Drama in Education), Robert Barclay Wilson, Dorothy Sayer's secretary, Father Cuthbert, the Poetry Society, and the Unity Theatre.
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
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Ruth Sansom's thoughts on homosexuality. This mentions Jonathon Field and Paul Scott, and discusses changing attitudes to homosexuality in later years.
Ruth Sansom
Autobiography: I find my voice
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Early autobiography by Clive Sansom (family and childhood to 1926), and copy of first chapter sent to Australian Literature Board (typescript).
Clive Sansom
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Brown envelope of letters to and from Sansom and his brother Len Sansom.
Clive Sansom
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Cream folder containing letters from Lina Wake about the Dorset Society and the publication of the Society's annual poetry anthologies.
Clive Sansom
Letters regarding the London Speech lnstitute
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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
The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession
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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
This Quiet Dust: Epitaphs Real and Imagined
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Two red spring-back folders containing Sansom's unpublished manuscript titled 'This Quiet Dust: Epitaphs Real and Imagined' and two copies.
Clive Sansom
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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
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Collection of newspaper clippings, articles on business and industry also teaching materials and school broadcast scripts and articles
Clive Sansom
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Folder marked 'Drama' that includes school broadcast scripts and articles written by Sansom, relevant newspaper clippings and a bibliography on the subject.
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
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Brown folder headed 'Clive Sansom by his Friends' with 'Ruth' in red ink. Handwritten drafts of Ruth's experiences and life with her husband. Subjects mentioned and sometimes described and discussed in greater length include:
• Ruth Sansom's training year at the London Speech Institute.
• Ruth's childhood and upbringing.
• Ruth's personal and professional relationship with her husband.
• Clive and Ruth Sansom's joint public poetry recitals.
• Sansom's sense of humour.
• Sansom's poetry and poetic dramas such as The Cathedral, The Witnesses, Francis of Assisi, and other publications such as By Word of Mouth, Passion Play, and unpublished works such as 'The Voice that Tempted Eve'.
• Sansom' s illness and hospitalisation in 1948.
• Paul Scott's critical response to Sansom's The World Turned Upside Down. Both Ruth and Clive Sansom's lack of University qualifications.
• The Sansoms' move to Tasmania in 1950.
• Sansom's relationship with his mother.
• Sansom's interest in Akhenaten.
• Sansom' s spiritual development.
• Response to Hilary Spurling's biography of Paul Scott, particularly as it relates to Scott's friendship with the Sansoms.
• The Sansoms' friendship with Madame Helen George and the Rowntree sisters.
• Ruth Sansom's deafness.
• Quakers and the spiritual life.
Clive Sansom
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Letters to Clive Sansom from The London Speech Fellowship, Leslie Daiker, Joan Bennett, Madame Helen George, Marjorie Gullan, Margaret Willey, Geoffrey Clarke, Aunt Bee, Dorothy Ackman, Len Sansom, Gladys Sansom, Kathleen Needham-Hurst, Arthur Fayne, Hermann Pleschmann, Constance Rennie, D.H. Tribolet, Allan Keeling, Margaret Arnott, Edward Milligan, Martin Davies, Herbert Howells, Richard Graves, Arthur Thompson, and Uncle Harry. There are also two letters from the publishers A.C. Black, one from the editor of John O 'London's Weekly, and one from Dr R. Vaughan Hudson who treated Clive Sansom during his illness in 1948. There are several letters are from unidentified writers.
Clive Sansom
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Two prose pieces by Sansom: 'A Discussion of Ministry' and 'Sermon in Stones and Trivia on Everything, or Mr Pearsall Smith visits his Chiropodist -a parody'.
Clive Sansom
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Correspondence labelled 'Publishers': Letters to and from the Favil Press and University of London Press.
Clive Sansom
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Correspondence from the National Book Council, London.
Clive Sansom
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Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, writings and poetry and speech education also religious writings and other material . Also contatind in the collection are a collection of Ruth Sansoms diaries and the personal papers and correspondence of Helen Power.
Clive Sansom
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Marguerite Helen Power
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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
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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.
Clive Sansom
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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
Correspondence from Nan Delaney
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Brown folder containing correspondence from Nan Delaney.
Clive Sansom
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Brown folder containing various letters mainly from Beatrice Desfosses (American speech educator) and Margaret Willy ( one-time editor of the journal "English").
Clive Sansom
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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
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Folder labelled 'Broadcasting' containing various articles and notes on the subject including one prepared by Sansom.
Clive Sansom
Collection of Sketches and Extracts'
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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
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Folder containing Sansom's handwritten note about the death of Leslie Greener, and handwritten records of discussions at Quaker meetings.
Clive Sansom
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Folder headed 'Photographs', but containing none. The folder contains publicity material for Sansom's 'World Turned Upside Down' and 'In the Midst of Death', a letter to an unidentified person in Finchley about Sansom's work and a copy of Judith Wright's review of Sansom's edition of Helen Power's poems. There is also a letter from a Harley Street specialist (1948) arranging a consultation with Sansom about his illness.
Clive Sansom
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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'.
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
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Copy of the journal English in Australia No 1 containing Sansom's article 'Oral Tests in English'.
Clive Sansom
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Brown folder headed 'Christmas Material'. Copies of poems by W. de la Mare, Francis Thompson, Masefield, R Bridges and Kipling, together with a selection of epitaphs. Some prose pieces and short plays titled 'The Christmas Carol',
'Conversation at Christmas', 'After the Dream', 'The Gold Coin' and 'The Gift of the Magi'. These were almost certain! y written by Sansom.
Clive Sansom
Odd notes in Clive's handwriting
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Brown envelope marked 'Odd notes in Clive's handwriting'. These include:
• Extracts from a draft travel diary describing Singapore, Bangkok, Stomboli and Bath (UK).
• Notes on brief meetings with Mr Grey (retired Principal) and Con Rhee.
• Draft of Sansom's 'Noah and the Pirates'.
• Random notes on 'Definitions'.
• Drafts of a proposed story 'Emily the Brontosaurus'.
• Extract from an issue of the Readers Digest titled 'A Toast for Tea'.
• A personal not about allergies and cats.
Clive Sansom
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Brown folder marked 'Clive's Notes on Dreams'. Sansom's notes on his experiences of dreams. Draft of Sansom 's poem 'After Donne ... ', and a poem written by Ruth Sansom.
Clive Sansom
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Proofs of part of a novel titled 'Other Little Apples'. The proofs extend from pages 51 to 82, excluding pages 58 and 62 to 68. Is this Sansom's work?
Clive Sansom
Letters especially interesting to a biographer
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Clear plastic folder 'Letters especially interesting to a biographer'. This contains numerous letters to and from Sansom, some of Sansom's writings and associated material
Clive Sansom
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Material labelled 'Speech Matters'. This includes a LAMDA pamphlet advertising a course for teachers including a workshop by Sansom on choral speaking, a copy of the Speech Fellowship newsletter edited by Sansom, a notice of the International Arts Centre's Summer Session 1947 at which Sansom presented a poetry reading of works from Hardy, Housman and Hopkins, an article by Sansom on the purpose of verse speaking, and letters to and from Sansom on matters relating to LAMDA administration, the Society of Speech Therapists and Sansom's Speech Rhymes.
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
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Collection of scripts , newspaper clippings and notes also notes for Ruths autobiography
Clive Sansom
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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.
Clive Sansom
Fait partie de Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Fait partie de Clive Samson Collection
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.
Clive Sansom
Fait partie de Clive Samson Collection
Sansom's notes on listening skills and a range of other material either collected or written by him.
Clive Sansom
Fait partie de Clive Samson Collection
Notes, newspaper clippings, copies of poems all relating to pronunciation either collected or written by Sansom.
Clive Sansom
Handwritten autobiography : age 85
Fait partie de Clive Samson Collection
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.
Ruth Sansom
Some late letters to Clive from Ruth after he died
Fait partie de Clive Samson Collection
Brown manila folder headed 'Some late letters to Clive from Ruth after he died'. There are five handwritten letters which reflect on past events, work, habits, relationships, etc, mentioning people such as Marjorie Gullan, Gertrude Kerby, Mona Swan, Martin Miles and Robert Gittings. One of the letters describes Ruth Sansom's religious beliefs and concludes with her poem 'Sweet song of Eden ... '. Another reflects on the Sansoms' 1937 holiday in the Austrian Tyrol. Another mentions Hilary Spurling' s biography of Paul Scott.
Ruth Sansom