Wallet file containing mainly letters and poems

This material is held atHull University Archives, Hull History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 50 U DP163/22
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1977-1981
  • Physical Description
    • 1 file

Scope and Content

Including:

a) Letters from Gavin Ewart to the press (8 ms. and 2 ts.), circa 1981

b) Letters from Gavin Ewart to: 'Mark', 21 March no year; 'Mr. Jackson', 25 March no year; 'Tony', 3 September 1981

c) Poems: 'A Character: The Termagent' (ts.); 'How pleasant to know Mrs. T' (ms.); 'It makes you feel quite sick' (ts. and carbon copy); 'Oh such limp verse' (ms.); 'To wish you, in all sorts of ways' (ms.); 'You can see him' (ms.); 'What was all the fun for?' (ts.); 'If only you were nice' (ts.); 'A Hero' (ts.); 'An Outline of History' (prose) (ts.); 'Human Beings' (ts.); 'Some Second Ghost to Entertaine?' (ts.); 'Xmas for the boys' (ts.); 'Thriller' (ts.); 'The Weather' (carbon copy); 'The Child's Guide to Anatomy' (carbon copy); 'One Thing in Common' (carbon copy)

d) Prose pieces: 'What's in your letter?" (Exercise in writing dialogue) (ms.); 'The Charity Walk for Booksellers (ts. and carbon copy); 'Those Returning Make More Faithfull Than Before' (ts.); 'Report on CEEFAX Competition' (carbon copy); 'H.H. Munro ("Saki")' (carbon copy); 'What Degrades Women' (ms.); 'Two Portraits of the Flemish School' (carbon copy); 'The Priest' (ms.)

e) Miscellaneous: Lists of poems, March 1977 - November 1980; Copy for jacket of 'The New Ewart Poems'; Summary of biography of Gavin Ewart; "Freeport Adew!"; "These phalloi"; Handbill for a new quarterly, 'Megaphone'; Extract from 'Three Weeks", by Elinor Glyn

f) Copies of poems not by Gavin Ewart: 'Ballade pour Robert D'Estouteville', by Francois Villon; 'Colloque Sentimentale', by Paul Verlaine; 'Fall of a City' by Stephen Spender; 'Letztes Lied', by Wilhelm Holzamer; 'Miss Gee', by W.H. Audin [Auden?]; 'Myself', by Stephen Spender; 'Sailing to Byzantium', by W.B. Yeats; 'The Word Dead and the Music Mad', by Stephen Spender; 'Three Days', by Stephen Spender

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