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

German translations of short stories

German translations of short stories

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

Poetry and letters sent to newspapers, competition entries, etc. Including early poem "To Mother" (written at age 10) and school essay (at 13), and poems written for Kathleen Stone.

Page proofs, correspondence with Resurgam Books. Introduction by Clive Sansom but none of his poems included.

Including: "I bite my thumb: parodies and verses by Clive Sansom" with foreword "most of the items have either been accepted or rejected by Punch" (no date 1930s or 40s?). Manuscript and typescript papers in binder, with note at front by Ruth Sansom: "not published. These will need careful selecting and possibly revising. Those in 'I bite my thumb' were written long ago..." Also (b) "The Wet Land" (1932 a parody on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", suggested by a wet Sunday in Wales) and letter to Kathleen Stone about it; (c) draft introduction to "I bite my thumb"; (d) rhymes and limericks.

Most appear to have been written at Palmers Green, London, some at Reigate, Surrey and the last three in Tasmania (but some have no indication of date), most apparently unpublished (but see cutting book DX18/79) (1) for cuttings of a few):- The monster of the Loch (c1933 - "sent to Daily Mail" - returned, alterations made since but... story with the same name has appeared in another paper Clive Sansom January 1934"); The end of a journey; The walled garden, a fantasy; Hoddesdon's Marvel (1936); The figure head; Honour is satisfied; Thirteenth time lucky; The Church; "Good night, Gentlemen"; Jubilee, an impression; Lost and found! A Roman road at Winchmore Hill; The stream, a sketch; a monograph on teashops; These modern poets; "Tibby ; A woman's will; The little Christian; The apple tree; The lost wood [Enfield Chase]; Two shots; Freedom; Silk stockings; The butterfly; Marionettes; One man's system; sonnet XX [Shakespeare]; Detection; "... and blossom as the rose" (1940); The testament of Yalta Smith, a political short story (1944?); Voices; The water cure (or "marquees and other matters"); Keats accent; A very fishy story; Confessions of a Fairy Queen; The day the elephant passed; The Fast; Miss Emily's Teeth; Widow Finnigan's music.

Encounter at Cheal; Baronial Duologue (or Hawkesworth Hall); Grandad's Ghost; the Double Image; The man who pulled down walls; Many do imagine; The Meeting. (Some appeared in John O'London's Weekly 1943-4 - see cutting book DX18/79(1) and some appeared in German papers DX18/75.

Manuscript, typescript, Poems 1951, The prize-winning entries for the Festival of Britain competition (Penguin Poets 1951 - includes "The Witnesses), The Witnesses and Other Poems by Clive Sansom (Methuen, London 1956): proof copy and published copy (4th reprint 1965). 12 folders of notes, correspondence, cuttings of reviews, etc. of performances, essays by school children on seeing a peformance, letter about possible recording by Argo Record Co. (1962), letter about American market (1972).

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

Diaries or journals: neatly written accounts of daily life, travels, etc. (in quarto volumes); "War Diary" 1939 (loose papers). Also rough diaries in pocket notebooks (some "not written up"). Also a few pages from a diary of c1926 or 1927 and extracts from notebooks c1930-1936.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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").

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.

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

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 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.

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

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'.

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.

Copy of the journal Good Speech (April-June 1937) containing an article by Sansom titled 'Speech Rhythm'.

Copy of the journal English in Australia No 1 containing Sansom's article 'Oral Tests in English'.

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.

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.

Brown folder headed 'South Downs - 1934, Notes for a Book' Contains snippets from texts and poems and the segment of a diary describing a visit to Sussex.

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.

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?

Manila folder headed 'Autobiography' comprising:
• OHMS envelope containing extracts from Sansom's personal diaries, 1947/48, and other diary notes on loose sheets of paper.
• Copy of the Tavistock Little Theatre Bulletin, 17/18 May 1935, which includes notes on the play ‘Hassan’. There is a handwritten note next to this indicating that this was the first play production Clive and Ruth Sansom attended together.
• Clear plastic folder marked 'Very Special Autobiography Part 2' containing a draft of a section of the autobiography, a copy of Sansom's poem 'Prophesy' and the Sansom Family Tree.
• Birth Certificate for Ruth (Ruth Annie Large, 14/5/06) and Death Certificate for Clive (Royal Hobart Hospital, 29/3/81).
• Sansom's questionnaire to a family member about the history of the Sansom’s. Biographical details headed 'Dosier (sic) on Sansom 1926-1951 '.
• Handwritten and types notes relating to Sansom's autobiography.
• Sansom’s statement to the War Tribunal, opposing military service
• Clippings from newspapers/journals relating to London and associated topics. Copies of two early poems by Sansom: 'Paul's Cross' and 'The Wood'.
• Copy of 'Invocation of a Poet Seeking Inspiration' from Arthur Grimble's ‘Return to the Islands’.
• Letters from Nan [Delaney?], the Convent of Sacred Heart and from Margaret and Len Sansom (2/10/75).
• Sansom's summary notes of Rilke's letters and Rudolf Steiner's text on agriculture, as well as briefer notes about and extracts from other works.

Brown folder headed 'Clive by Ruth'
Some of Ruth Sansom's handwritten notes of her memories. These notes are in no logical order and many of the loose pages are not numbered. The material describes aspects of the Sansoms' life in England before, during and after the Second World War, life in Tasmania, work with the Education Department and return visits to England in 1961 and 1978. Topics addressed by Ruth Sansom include Sansom's unpublished work, his attitude to the Quakers and his production of T.B. Morris's play 'I Will Arise'. Mention is made of the Sansoms' association and friendship with Allan Keeling, Nan Chauncy, Martin Miles, Margaret Rutherford, Robert Gittings, Nan Delaney and Paul Scott. This file includes Sansom's letter to the Australian on the subject of arts grants (17 February 1969).

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

Letters relating to Sansom's application for registration as a conscientious objector for service with the armed forces in the Second World War (see his application to the Tribunal in 3.26 above). These include formal notice of the hearing of Sansom's application to be registered as a conscientious objector, copy of a reference from the President of the London Speech Fellowship and Institute to accompany Sansom's application, and letters of advice about his application from Eric Savage and Edgar D. Dunstan. Documents from the Ministry of Labour and National Service advising Sansom that the Tribunal 'was satisfied ... that there was a genuine conscientious objection to combatant military service; but it was not satisfied as to non-combatant service' and that Sansom must therefore undertake full­time 'ARP or AFS work'. Letters including those to and from the City of Birmingham, the Air Raid Precautions Headquarters, the Guildhall Portsmouth, the City and County of Bristol, and the London County Council about the possibility of such employment. Copies of letters from Sansom to the Ministry of Labour indicating that he was seeking admission to the Spicelands Training Centre.

Miscellaneous notes and letters relating to the search for accommodation. Letter from Sansom to the Editor of Poetry Review on the subject of poetry and beauty (14/11/40) and one from an unidentified writer [perhaps either Rodney Bennett or Robert Gittings?] on the teaching of oral English and Keats's connection with Dorset (5/12/61).

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.

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[?].

Typescript (for BBC 194-), letter from ABC about broadcast (1952, letter from ABC and script (1970).

Including: Edward Bonner (February 1938 manuscript); Behold this Dreamer (typescript no date); The head and the heart (Farnham 1948 typescript); Religion and Art (1949 typescript), Friends School (1951); Friends Annual Conference 1952: Our faith and service (see also cutting book DX18/79 (2)); peace testimony Town Hall, Hobart (30 July 1958); religious broadcasts, Word and Vision (1960); Meditations (21 December 1961, 2 January, 31 January, 28 February, 26 August, 1 November 1962); Quakerism and the Arts (September 1963); Quakers and Peace (December 1963); The religious basis of our Peace Testimony (no date, typescript); Quakers and the Sacraments (no date, typescript); Should religious education be abolished? (no date, typescript notes for discussion); The First Teacher (no date, typescript); "Spiritual Canticles". See also "An evening with the Quakers" June 1937 in cutting book DX18/79(1) p.12).

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

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.

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.

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

Apart from photographs taken in the l 970s, these eleven photographs show the Sansoms in England, on journeys to Ceylon
(1950) and the Middle East and in London during the War years. One is a passport photograph of both husband and wife.

Collection of scripts , newspaper clippings and notes also notes for Ruths autobiography

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Short plays or sketches for speech classes, etc. (unpublished?): "Interruption, a play in one act"; "The King's servants"; "Shuffled Words, a sketch"; "Friday night at the junction"; "Celestial Meeting, a stage play for three women only"; "The new Alcestis"; "The return journey, an epilogue to Flecker's epilogue - Samarkand"; "Uplift, a sketch"; "Verona to suburbia, a sketch by Clive Sansom (in collaboration with William Shakespeare)"; Untitled (brief sketch on Good Speech); "Rinaldo and St. Julian"; "The Journey, an experiment in one act"; "The Journey, a play for broadcasting"; "How it is done, a sketch for broadcasting"; "Dream Meeting, a play for broadcasting".
See also Microphone Plays (DX18/60)

Speech of Our Time compiled and edited by Clive Sansom, London (Hinrichsen 1948): correspondence and reviews.

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

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

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

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

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

A cantata commissioned by the Rosny Children's Choir, music by Don Kay, words by Clive Sansom: correspondence on fees and routine matters, drafts, typescripts, news cuttings, etc. rough notes.

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

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

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

Recitals by Clive and Ruth Sansom.

Book reviews for Nation Review

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

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

Family photographs of Clive and brother as children, ?parents and grandparents, ?brother's children (photographs not labelled or dated).

Pocket appointment diaries.

The Unfailing Spring, Clive Sansom, introduction by Walter de la Mare, "Resurgam" Younger Poets, London (Favil 1943): book, some typed poems, correspondence with publishers, contract, reviews (1942-45).

The World turned upside down, London, 1948. A morality play based on the Christmas story: draft & revised typescript, published copy (F. Muller 1948) annotated, radio script 1975, correspondence with agent (Higham), publishers 1947-8, ABC, BBC 1948-1976; reviews, registration certificate (1947).

Typescript, correspondence (published by Chatto 1975).

Including dog ballads (see also "These happy breeds"), children's poems, correspondence with The Listener, Country Life, Poetry Review, etc., Akhenaton Poems (manuscript c1970-71 - drafts for a ? sequence, see also "Akhnaton's Hymn" in In the Midst of Death (9) and in The Poet Speaks). Some earlier poems included.

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

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

Correspondence, programs, reviews, newscuttings, competition certificates, relating to Clive and Ruth Sansom's work in speech training, the Speech Fellowship Institute directed by Marjorie Gullan, Marjorie Gullan's Verse Speaking Choir, verse speaking competitions, LAMDA, Adult Education, etc., including correspondence with Marjorie Gullan, Kathleen stone, Ann Croasdale, LCC Education Dept. and London University, etc. (see also general correspondence) and article by Clive Sansom in Adult Education Vol. X No. 1 September 1937 and obituary of M. Gullan (pioneer of speech training and Quaker) by Clive Sansom in Speech & Drama vol. 9 no. 2 January 1960. See also Bible Reading course at Speech Institute 1938 (DX18/69).

Under the Tasmanian Department of Education, directed by Clive and Ruth Sansom 1950-1968: description of Centre and duties of Supervisor, reports, correspondence, practice material (not by Clive Sansom), articles by Clive Sansom, "The speech machine: some notes for candidates in the Schools Board 'Art of speech' course, prepared by Clive Sansom" 1962, "Listening" - general sheet - infant/primary, "Spoken English" from Opinion j. of South Australia English Teachers Association ND, etc., including later correspondence about speech training (1970-78) and letter to Ruth Sansom about copies of Clive Sansom Collected Poems; "Marjorie Gullan - some reminiscences" (typescript, ND). Also file relating to the migration of Maurice and Gillian (nee Lousley) Hilliard, speech educators 1955-1964 (moved to Wollongong 1964).