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John Betjeman, autograph manuscripts and poems, together with typed drafts of poems and typed letters
Betjeman, John (1906-1984)
c.1966-1980
Comprises the following items: (1) Autograph manuscript drafts of Betjeman's poems 'Monody on the death of Aldersgate Street Station', 'Thoughts on 'The diary of a nobody'', and 'Felixstowe or The las...
Autograph manuscript drafts of Betjeman's poems 'Monody on the death of Aldersgate Street Station', 'Thoughts on 'The diary of a nobody'', and 'Felixstowe or The last of her order
No date
The four pages of drafts are heavily revised with deletions and insertions; the poems have no titles at this stage of composition.
Sturgeon, Lee Typed letter signed to Dick Hansen. 43 Cloth fair, London E.C.1
7 June 1966
Held inside BETJEMAN, Sir John Mount Zion or In touch with the infinite. London: James Press, [1931] (http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2421639).
Largely autograph manuscript drafts of poems by Betjeman (in some cases in multiple versions) written on backs of letters, leaflets and envelopes, the majority of them are unpublished
1931-2004
(i) "The street was bathed in winter sunset pink", 5 ff., (later published in "Collected Poems" as 'Chelsea 1977', p. 392); (ii) 'Christmas MCMLXXV', 5 ff.; (iii) A poem beginning "How safe I felt whe...
Two poems printed for the author when visiting the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
1958
Ireland's own, or The burial of Thomas Moore, dedicated ... to the Marquis of Hartington and the Ladies Emma and Sophia Cavendish by ... Ian Mac Betjeman (Writerto the Cygnet). Lismore: Browne, [1958]...