Copies of poems (some handwritten, some typescript, some printed extracts from newspapers or journals) between covers of ‘St. Christopher Magazine’ (Christmas 1945). The poems are listed by author and then title, in their original order, and are handwritten unless otherwise indicated.
1) J D C Pellow: ‘After London’, London Mercury, June 1920, (typescript)
2) Anne Hamilton: ‘There might be glory in the night’, published in The Nation (New York), 8 July 1931, (printed)
3) Humbert Wolfe: ‘What am I afraid for?’, published in the New Statesman, 3 July 1926 (printed)
4) A E Housman: ‘Good night, ensured release’, (typescript)
5) Ida Lowry Sinclair: ‘The wind is ablow from the south today’, (typescript)
6) Siegfried Sassoon: ‘Song -”Everyone sang”... W H Harris. Walter Widdop, (printed)
7) Jan Struther: ‘Freedom’, published in the New Statesman, 15 August 1931 (printed)
8) Frances Bellerby: ‘It is not likely now’, published in The Listener, 16 April 1953 (printed)
9) Charles Hamilton Sorley: ‘All the hills and the vales along’, (typescript)
10) Robert Graves: ‘Here live your life out!’, published in the New Statesman, 29 August 1959 (printed)
11) Carl Sandburg: ‘Fog’ (typescript)
12) Geoffrey Taylor: ‘Home again, home again (to a house in reduced circumstances)’, 5 March 1956, published in The Listener, 28 August 1958 (printed)
13) [Helen M Wodehouse?]: extract (p. 12) from sermon (?) (1 page.), (typescript)
14) Beryl Kaye: ‘Consecration, published in The Listener, 8 October 1959 (printed)
15) Hal Summers: ‘April fool’, published in The Listener, 8 April 1954 (printed)
16) Robert Frost: ‘A prayer in spring’, (typescript)
17) J [John C [Courtenay] Trewin: ‘Front line’, published in The Times, 21 October 1941
18) W [Walter] De la Mare: ‘Farewell’ (printed)
19) Patricia Beer: ‘Juliet’, published in The Listener, 5 July 1956 (printed)
20) Frances Chesterton: ‘The small dreams’, published in The Saturday Westminster Gazette, 11 January 1913 (printed)
21) ‘Magdalen at Michael’s gate’ (printed)
22) W L: ‘The way things happen’, published in the New Leader, 18 December 1925 (printed)
23) Hal Summers: ‘Listener to singer’, The Listener, 30 July 1959 (printed)
24) Francis Ledwidge: ‘Had I a golden pound to spend’, from Years of the Shadow, by K [Katherine] Tynan, p.290, (typescript)
25) Elizabeth Jennings: ‘Song at the beginning of autumn’, published in the Listener, 7 October 1954 (printed)
26) K [Katherine] Tynan: ‘These are the years our God’
27) Jessie Mackay: ‘In Galilee’, from New Zealand Verse, edited by Robert Chapman, (typescript)
28) F W Stokoe: ‘The secluded dwelling’, published in Nation and Athenaeum, 15 October 1921 (printed)
29) Siegfried Sassoon: ‘At Max Gate’, from Sequences, 1956, (typescript)
30) ‘The dying garden’, 28 June 1934 (newspaper cutting)
31) C P: ‘Triolet for New Year’s Day’
32) Robert Frost: ‘The oven bird’, (typescript)
33) Asmund [Olive Fraser]: ‘The Vikings’, (typescript)
34) E [Edith] J [Joy] Scovell: ‘A girl to her sister’, published in Life and Letters, September 1932 (printed)
35) J Buxton: ‘Berries’, from Sunday newspaper, late October 1941, (typescript)
36) [Digby Mackworth?] Dolben: ‘The world is young today’, published in Life and Letters, June 1930 (printed)
37) ‘Loch Leven love lament’ and Kenneth Macleod: ‘The road to the Isles’ (printed) (2pp.)
38) Eden Phillpotts: ‘To whom they sing’
39) ‘An adventurous student of Herts’, limerick published in The Nightingale, magazine of Swaffham Girls’ School, (typescript)
40) Sylvia Townsend Warner: ‘Nelly Trim’, from The Espalier (5pp.)
41) Nicholas Vachel Lindsay: ‘Why I voted the Socialist ticket’, from The Essentials of Democracy, by A.D. [Alexander Dunlop] Lindsay, pp.73-4
42) Isabel Butchard: ‘Dressing for high festival’, from Other People’s Fires
43) W [Wystan] H [Hugh] Auden: ‘In memory of W.B. Yeats, d. January. 1939’, (typescript)
44) ‘Love and age’ and Padriac Colum: ‘I heard in the night the pigeons’, published in the New Statesman, 9 December 1922 (printed)
45) A [Alfred] D [Denis] Godley: ‘What is this that roareth thus?’, published in the New Statesman, 29 January 1927
46) Joseph Campbell: ‘The old woman’
47) Ruth Manning-Sanders: ‘Song of the browney who lives under stairs’, published in the New Leader, 22 June 1923 (printed)
48) W [Wystan] H [Hugh] Auden: ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’, (typescript)
49) A H Paul: ‘The glass curtain’, published in The Listener, 29 May 1952, (typescript)
50) ‘Compromise’, published in The Saturday Westminster Gazette, 9 June 1917 (printed) (2pp.)
51) Alice Meynell: ‘Two o’clock, the morning of October 12th’, published in the Nation, 30 October 1915 (printed)
52) Beryl Kaye: ‘The elves’, [published in The Listener?], 10 December 1959 (printed)
53) Frances Cornford: ‘Two epigrams: “Before dawn” and “Sutton in Marisco”, published in New Statesman and Nation, 22 November 1952, (typescript)
54) Peter Appleton: ‘The proclamation’, published in The Listener, 19 July 1956 (printed)
55) ‘My dearest dust’, from the tomb of Sir William Dyer at Colmfirth, Bedfordshire, 17th century, (typescript)
56) Richard Murphy: ‘Epitaph on a fir tree’, published in The Listener, 19 July 1956
57) Joseph Auslander: ‘Fog’, [nd] (printed)
58) Patricia Beer: ‘The Judas tree’, published in The Listener, 11 May 1961 (printed)
59) Christopher Logue: ‘On my mouse’, published in the New Statesman, 10 October 1959
60) Donald Davie: ‘Wharncliffe’, published in New Statesman, 10 October 1959, (typescript)
61) Betts: ‘They saw the day how brief, the night how long’, from The Causes of Evolution, by J B S [John Burdon Sanderson] Haldane, p.144, (typescript)
62) Robert Conquest: ‘Lament for a landing craft’, published in the New Statesman, 30 October 1954 (printed)
63) Muriel Grainger: ‘Love among the ruins of London’ and Allan M Laing: ‘Out of the bomb came forth greenness’ and R J Hewison: ‘Love among the ruins of London’ and William Bliss: ‘When on London’s broken bridge’ all published in New Statesman and Nation, 22 January 1944 (printed)
64) Charles Causley: ‘A ballad for Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England, 1509-1533. Buried in Peterborough Cathedral’, (typescript).
65) W [William] B [Butler] Yeats: ‘Quarrel in old age’
66) Naomi Mitchison: ‘Some men and a woman’, published in The Tribune, 14 June 1940, (typescript)
67) Josephine Preston Peabody: ‘The house and the road’, (typescript)
68) I R Orton: ‘The poet’s friend’, published in The Listener, 21 May 1953 (printed), and M [Macha] L [Louis] Rosenthal: review of John Malcolm Brinnin, Dylan Thomas in America: an intimate journal (1955), published in the Nation (New York), 17 December 1955 (printed)
69) Louis MacNeice: ‘Truisms’, published in The Observer (?), June 1960
70) A writer of 2nd century A.D.: ‘Clothe thyself with cheerfulness’
71) M [Muriel] C Bradbrook: ‘The Woodlands nightingale (five finger exercise on a theme by Keats)’, from the Girton Review, Easter Term 1941, (typescript)
72) Aline Kilmer: ‘My mirror’, (typescript)
73) Roy Helton: ‘May Jones takes the air’, (typescript)
74) Joseph Auslander: ‘Last night for no good reason’ (printed)
75) Henry Reed: ‘Judging distances. A poem from the Forces’, published in the New Statesman, 6 March 1943 (printed)
76) Brian Hill: ‘Winter scene (after Paul Verlaine’s Ariettes oubliées no. VIII)’, published in the Listener, 20 December 1956, (typescript)
77) R [Rudyard] Kipling: ‘A St. Helena lullaby’, (typescript)
78) W H Auden: ‘Epitaph on a tyrant’, from Another Time, 1940, (typescript)
79) ‘When in the depth of winter cold’, published in The Times, Christmas 1938
80) B K van Slyke: ‘When I read names of England’, published in Atlantic Monthly, March 1919, (typescript)
81) Willa Cather: ‘Provencal legend’, (typescript)
82) Charles Causley: ‘At the statue of William the Conqueror, Falaise’, (typescript)
83) Charles Causley: ‘Elizabethan sailor’s song’, (typescript)
84) Ernst Toller: ‘The cells’ occupants’ and ‘Song of loneliness’, from Letters from Prison, translated by R. Ellis Roberts, (typescript)
85) Sylvia Townsend Warner: ‘The flowering manger’, (typescript)
86) Louis Macneice: ‘The clock’, published in the New Statesman, 6 January 1940
87) Willa Cather: ‘The Palatine (in the “Dark Ages”)’, (typescript)
88) Patricia Beer: ‘Juliet’, from Guinness Book of Poetry 1956-7, (typescript)
89) Orrick Johns: ‘Little things’, (typescript)
90) Ada Jackson: ‘Julia Smeaton’, published in The Listener, 3 May 1956 (printed)
91) Gordon Harris: ‘The green past’, published in The Listener, 22 August 1957 (printed)
92) K [Karl] W [Watts] Gransden: ‘The golden age’, published in the New Statesman, 20 December 1958 (printed)
93) Charles Causley: ‘Miss Elliott, published in The Listener, 31 Jul 1958 (printed)
94) Katharine Tynan: ‘The Old Soldier’, published in The Westminster Gazette, January 1915
95) Joan Barton: ‘Fallen Snow’ (printed)
96) R [Ronald] S [Stuart] Thomas: ‘Divertissement’ published in the New Statesman, 1 March 1958 (printed)
97) W A Chapman: ‘The Old and the New’ 1925 (printed)
98) Charles Causley: ‘Hawthorn white’, (typescript)
99) Siegfried Sassoon: ‘Does it matter’ and ‘How to die’, published in the Cambridge Magazine, 6 October 1917 (printed)
100) Hal Summers: ‘Message at parting’, published in The Listener, 11 December 1958 (printed)
101) Elsie Jean Craxfield: ‘The old woman’
102) Charles Doyle: ‘My love lies down tonight (for Doran)’, published in The Nation, 25 April, 1959 (printed)
103) Hal Summers: ‘My old cat’, published in The Listener, 24 March 1960 (printed)
104) John Masefield: ‘Girton College, Cambridge’, 19 August 1910, (typescript)
105) [Kathleen M Peace]: ‘Lines written by the Secretary of Girton to her predecessor in thanks for a gift’, 1 October 1933
106) Kathleen M Peace: ‘Casual encounter’, January 1937
107) Kathleen M Peace: ‘As in a glass darkly’, 19 January 1936
108) Thomas Hardy: ‘The oxen’, from Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy, 1932, p.439
109) Sylvia Lynd: ‘A bathe one Sunday’, from The Thrush and the Jay, (typescript)
110) C [Chrystabel] P [Procter]: ‘St Michael’s Mass (an autumn hymn)’
111) ‘Rumours’, published in the Saturday Westminster Gazette, July 1916, (typescript)
112) Vernice: ‘To my mother’, published in the Weekly Westminster Gazette, 22 July 1922