Novels
MS. 6681/46
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Novels
Shelfmark
MS. 6681/46
Summary
Comprises:
Bang Bang You're Dead, autograph manuscript [incomplete and unpublished], 1969. Remainder of volume contains draft poems including Children Leaving Home, Poem for my children, Municipal Park, Plus Ultra, Beethoven, draft poems on Keats and various prose. Enclosed newspaper cuttings: review of Poems of C. Day Lewis in The Times, 20 Jan 1977 and article on 'T.E. Lawrence' by C. Day-Lewis in The Spectator, 25 Nov 1938, p.908 [cuttings not kept for preservation purposes].
Introduction to reprint of The Beast Must Die and A Tangled Web, by P.D. James, typescript draft, some ink annotation, 1998.
Date
1969-1998
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (1 volume, 1 folder)
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Collection contents
Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon
Literary Papers
Fiction (as Nicholas Blake)
Novels
