Work books, diaries and notes,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 Boxes 1-3.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls005068241
      (alternative) ISYSARCHB4
  • Dates of Creation
    • [c.1978-1994].
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Twenty-two notebooks used as work books and diaries including drafts of Douglas Houston's poems later published in With the offal eaters (Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1986) (nos 1-9) and The hunters in the snow (Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1994) (nos 10-14); notes relating to his doctoral thesis 'Myths of place: the importance of landscapes in the poetries of W.H. Auden & Seamus Heaney' (Hull, 1986) (nos 15-16); and others (nos 17-22), including diary entries for 1984 (no. 17), 1986 (no. 18) and 1992 (nos 19-20).

Note

Preferred citation: Boxes 1-3.

Additional Information

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