Copies of poems (some handwritten, some typescript, some printed including extracts from books and newspapers). The poems are listed by author then title, in their original order, and are handwritten unless otherwise indicated.
Author and title of poems as follows:
1) Frances Thompson: ‘In no strange land’
2) William Ellery Leonard: ‘Indian summer’ (typescript)
3) Norman Passant: ‘Where stood manor house’, published in 'The Listener', 29 July 1954 (printed)
4) Robert Frost: ‘Reluctance’ (typescript)
5) Frances Cornford: ‘The Scholar’, published in 'The Listener', 21 February 1952 (printed)
6) C [Constantine] P Cavafy: ‘Waiting for the barbarians’, published in 'The Listener', 12 October 1959 (printed)
7) Walter Conrad Arensberg: ‘Vain excuse’
8) Christopher Hancock: ‘Premonition’, published in the 'New Stateman', 6 June 1953 (printed)
9) John Masefield: ‘Lemmings’, published in the 'Cambridge Review', 10 November 1917 (printed)
10) B K van Slyke: ‘When I read names of England’, published in 'Atlantic Monthly', March 1919, (typescript)
11) Verse on a sampler in Lewes Museum, (typescript)
12) Marceline Desbordes-Valmore: ‘Ma chambre’
13) Archbishop Benson: ‘The martin’, printed at the end of 'The Trefoil' by Archbishop Benson, (typescript)
14) Gerald Gould: ‘Biography’
15) Elsie Jane Craxfield: ‘Plain Jane’
16) James Elroy Flecker: ‘The ballad of Iskander’, published in the 'English Review', March 1911 (printed)
17) S D H: ‘Realisation’, published in the 'Western Morning News', 26 August 1914, (typescript)
18) Edward Verral Lucas: ‘Anticipations’, published in 'The Spectator', 14 September 1901
19) H O Meredith: ‘Clothes’, (typescript)
20) Naomi Mitchison: ‘Spring’, published in the 'Cambridge Magazine', 25 May 1918 (printed)
21) T E C: ‘Standing and waiting’, published in the 'Westminster Gazette', 29 August 1914, (typescript)
22) C [Cicely] Fox Smith: ‘War risks’, published in the 'Westminster Gazette', 1915 (?), (typescript)
23) Robert Wilde: ‘For a godly man’s tomb’, (typescript)
24) ‘The trap’, published in Nation, 11 May 1918, (typescript)
25) Wilfred Gibson: ‘Experience’; and Alexander Smith: from ‘Essay on death and the fear of dying’; from 'The Blessings of Old Age', edited by M E Maxwell, (typescript)
26) Digby Mackworth Dolben: ‘A song’
27) J [John] Galsworthy: ‘To my dog’
28) A E Housman: ‘O thou that from thy mansion’, from memorial service sheet, Trinity College, Cambridge (?) (printed)
29) Edward Shillito: ‘July 1914’, (typescript)
30 ) M Snow: ‘It’s not very light in church in the early morning’, published in the 'Saturday Westminster Gazette', 3 February 1917 (printed)
31) ‘Mortality’, with a handwritten inscription: ‘Author of "John Halifax"’:
32) ‘The end of the party’ and ‘Winter tea-time’, published in the New Statesman, with a typed heading: ‘F C C, 8 December 1951’, (typescript)
33) Katharine Wallas: ‘Cotswold corn’, (typescript)
34) C Day Lewis: ‘Pastiche after Robert Frost, on a picture of the Annunciation’, published in the Listener, 8 January 1953, (typescript)
35) C Day Lewis: ‘A song of welcome’, published in 'The Observer', 16 May 1954 (printed)
36) C A Alington on the death of Bishop Hensley Henson, from 'A Dean’s Apology', pp. 57-8, (typescript)
37) Archbishop Trench: ‘Prayer and ‘The suppliant’
38) Uriel, Chamuel, Tophiel, Zadkiel: ‘Hymns for the Feast of St Michael and All Angels’, published in the 'Saturday Westminster Gazette', 30 September 1916 (printed)
39) J B Stuart: ‘From Paddington’
40) Patricia Beer: ‘Movable feast’, published in 'The Listener', 1 August 1957 (printed)
41) 4 poems on foreign travel by F C C: ‘If any future, love, were sure’, Leslie Johnson: ‘Lemuel muses’, Willy Tadpole: ‘With hardly more than five days run’, J Taylor: ‘Manchester in 1888’, all from 'The New Statesman', 5 September 1942 (printed)
42) Erica Parker: ‘As a child’, published in John O’London’s Weekly, 1 August 1952 (printed)
43) Aline Kilmer: ‘My mirror’, (typescript)
44) N M Mitchison: ‘The mirror and the clock’, published in 'The New Statesman', 7 September 1918 (printed)
45) Anon. [J Meade Falkner?]: ‘Christmas Day. The family sitting’ 2pp., (typescript)
46) John Mason: ‘Song of praise for the evening’, from 'The Evolution of the English Hymn', by F J Gillman, (typescript)
47) John Masefield: ‘In memory of Alfred Edward Housman. Born March 26, 1859’, published in the 'Times', 26 March 1959, (typescript)
48) Robert Frost: ‘A winter Eden’ (printed)
49) V C: ‘Furrows’
50) Roy Campbell: ‘Lescot’s horses’, published in 'The New Statesman' and 'Nation', 24 September 1932 (printed)
51) J Meade Falkner: ‘After Trinity’, published in 'The Spectator', 24 December 1910, (typescript)
52) Sylvia Lynd: ‘This and this’, from The Thrush and the Jay, 1916, (typescript)
53) M A S: ‘Forbidden flowers’, published in 'The Lady', 24 August 1961 (printed)
54) Vita Sackville-West: ‘Song’, published in the 'London Mercury', May 1923
55) Mary Caroline Davies: ‘The day before April’, (typescript)
56) Frances Cornford: ‘The ruin’, published in 'The New Stateman', 3 October 1959
57) Frank Singleton: ‘Crossing Trinity Great Court. In memoriam L S J’, published in the 'Cambridge Review', 9 October 1936
58) Sara Teasdale: ‘The long hill’, from 'Flame and Shadows', p.58
59) Hilary Trench: ‘Finland’, published in 'The Spectator' competition, 8 March 1940, (typescript)
60) ‘Rumours’, published in the Saturday Westminster Gazette, July 1916, (typescript)
61) Thomas Hardy: ‘Heredity’, (typescript)
62) John Masefield: ‘Girton College, Cambridge’, 19 August 1910, (typescript)
63) T [Thomas] W [William] H Crosland: ‘Epitaph’, published in the 'Nation', 27 January 1917, (typescript)
64) K [Karl] W [Watts] Gransden: ‘The golden age’, published in 'The New Stateman', 20 December 1958
65) C A Alington: ‘In shabby streets’, coronation day 1937, from 'A Dean’s Apology', p.78, (typescript)
66) W [Walter] De la Mare: ‘Comfort’, (typescript)
67) David Campbell: ‘Lamb and ewe’, published in 'The Listener', 27 November 1902 (printed)
68) John Manifold: ‘May Day’, published in the 'Cambridge Review', 9 June 1938 (printed)
69) Evangeline Metheny: ‘A cuckoo in Asia Minor’, published in 'The New Statesman', 2 August 1930, (printed)
70) E C T: ‘Night wind in Ludlow’, published in the Saturday Westminster Gazette, 17 August 1912
71) Lola Ridge: ‘The tidings (Easter 1916)’, from The Irish Story (?)
72) Bruce Blunt: ‘The first mercy’, from the Mercury Book of Verse, 1931, (typescript)
73) Madeleine Caron Rock: ‘He is the lonely greatness of the world’, from Lyra Mystica, edited by C C Albertson, 1932 (printed)
74) Robert Frost: ‘The road not taken’, (typescript)
75) Margaret Cropper: ‘The grey ewe’, from A Layman’s Love of Letters, by G M Trevelyan, p. 55, (typescript)
76) H Honer: ‘Song for lovers’, from Psalms (printed)
77) Edward Thomas: ‘Adlestrop’, from Modern Poetry, edited by Robert Lynd, 1939, (typescript)
78) Herbert E Clarke: ‘The broken sluice. 1862’, ‘Flooding the washes’, ‘In the Fens (sunset to mountains)’, ‘Winter in the Fens’, ‘Near Chatteris, Isle of Ely’ from Poems and Sonnets, 1895, 3pp., (typescript)
79) C Day Lewis: ‘Seen from the train’, (typescript)
80) Christina Rossetti: ‘St John Apostle’, (typescript)
81) Johann Wolfgang Goethe: ‘A song over the unconfidence toward myself. To Br Schlosser’, Leipzig, [the original dates to before 11 May 1766], (typescript)
82) Siegfried Sassoon: ‘Release’, ‘Euphrasy’, ‘An example’, ‘Man and dog’ all from Sequences, 1956, (typescript)
83) Ruth Dallas: ‘Farmyard’, New Zealand Verse, edited by Robert Chapman, (typescript)
84) Hugh Maclagan: ‘He goeth by me and I see him not’, published in the Spectator, c. 1908, and quoted in Averil Stewart, Alicell
85) Orrick Johns: ‘The interpreter’, (typescript)
86) Lizette Woodworth Reese: ‘Your first love’, (typescript)
87) Kathleen M Peace: ‘A blackbird in July’, 1929
88) Helen Wodehouse: ‘The climbers and other poems’, booklet includes ‘On the hills’, ‘The climbers’, ‘Inarticulate’, ‘Fatigue’, ‘Buried near a river’, ‘Waiting’, ‘A Christmas carol’, ‘Unemployment problem’, 7pp., (typescript)
89) Another copy of GCPP Wodehouse 5/1/88, 6pp, (typescript)
90) ‘Modern poetry’, lecture (?), 27pp. (1915?), author unknown, not written
in Helen Wodehouse’s handwriting
91) Kathleen M Peace: ‘Youth remembered’, 18 June 1957; with a note from Kathleen M Peace to Helen Wodehouse, 18 June 1957, (typescript)
92) Helen Wodehouse: ‘The climbers, and other poems’ includes: ‘Inarticulate’, Fatigue’, ‘On the hills’, ‘The climbers’, ‘Waiting’, (typescript)
93) ‘Fold Song’, ‘Unemployment problem’ and ‘Song in a Spenserian measure’, one poem written in Helen Wodehouse’s handwriting, the others are in typescript, 2pp.
94) [Helen Wodehouse?] ‘Each in his own tongue’
95) 2 notes in unidentified hand
96) [Helen Wodehouse?] ‘A Christmas carol’ (2pp.)
97) E R S: ‘Buried near a river’
98) A [Arthur] S [Shearly] Cripps: ‘A shepherd’s hymn’ and Anon.: ‘Encamped in April (South African autumn)’.