Journals/letterbooks
MS. 12404/2
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Journals/letterbooks
Shelfmark
MS. 12404/2
Summary
Comprises:
Journal titled 'Me, Myself and I' in the form of draft/copy letters to 'F' with an enclosed typescript draft of the poem 'The Return' from 1959 (included in Rose in the Afternoon in 1974), additional manuscript poems including 'Parody on a poem on a picture in a gallery in Florence' plus three enclosed draft letters, 1952-1954, 1959
Journal continuation of 'Me Myself and I', 1954-1956
Travel journal/letterbook written in the form of letters to James [-], headed 'From the Oxford Mail to South Africa (Capetown, 3 weeks then Joburg) left Oxford Mail in about 1956'. The journal begins while Joseph is in Dublin and then moves to Cape Town and Johannesburg, and mentions Joseph getting a job at the South African news journal Drum as a secretary [the contents were reworked in Joseph's Diary of a Deportee], c. 1957-c. 1959
Date
1952-1959
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (3 folders)
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Collection contents
Journals/letterbooks
Journals/letterbooks
