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Tranche / Volume 1 of Roma Wilson's unpublished poetry: File 1, circa 1925-circa 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Wilson 3/2/1

Scope and Contents

Photocopies of mainly typescript poems, together with a coversheet entitled ‘Poems written by Roma [Wilson]: Edited by L[eslie] Muir Wilson’. The cover sheet has a note attached reading ‘Tranche 1. Copies’. Very few dates. Titles as follows:
The Great White Whale: An Asymmetric Verse [dated 16.12.41. by LMW]
From A May Pastoral [part only of A May Pastoral?: photocopied from A Magazine of Verse, c. 1930?]
November Night
Chamber Music
Life
To Dearest Uncle
Tim O’Button’s indiscrete Jollitie
April Bells
The Orchard
Deposed Diana
The Post-War Clerk
Poem
Epitaph on Lord Oxford and Asquith
The North
Truth
Untitled [‘Phyllis, in a single week’…’]
Invocation
Prologue
The Twelve Hours of Day (twelve parts plus Epilogue).
Note: November Night to Prologue are numbered sequentially in the file 6-21.



















Dates

  • Creation: circa 1925-circa 1945

Creator

Extent

1 file(s)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by a family member, January 2023.

Originator(s)

Wilson, Roma

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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