Notebooks and diaries
MS. 6681/49
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Notebooks and diaries
Shelfmark
MS. 6681/49
Summary
Comprises:
Income/expenditure account for visit to America, 1 small volume, 1964-1965. Not detailed (only 2 pages used).
Address book, entries mainly by C. Day-Lewis, some later entries by Jill Balcon, n.d.
Silvine exercise book, with rough notes, few entries [possibly notes for lecture], n.d.
Pocket notebook containing various rough notes, including notes for poems, lectures/essays, novels, room measurements, etc., n.d.
Pocket notebook, containing rough notes for poems and notes on Keats and St Michael's church [Stinsford], with quote from 1 Kings 19: 12-13 in different hand [Jill Balcon?], n.d. [c.1970-1972]
Pocket diary, brief entries, 1971.
Pocket diary, with pencil, very brief entries, 1972.
Date
1964-1972
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (7 volumes)
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Collection contents
Archive of C. Day-Lewis [pseudonym Nicholas Blake] and his wife Jill Balcon
Literary Papers
Notebooks and diaries
Notebooks and diaries
