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Selected and introduced by Clive Sansom, published 1964 by Robert Hale, London. Typescript, page proof, published copy.

"Lady Franklin's Journey": notes, draft, script, correspondence.

Correspondence about fees, copyright, "Convergence on Bethlehem" etc.

Typescript, correspondence (published by Chatto 1975).

Pocket appointment diaries.

Autobiography by Clive Sansom ND.

Early autobiography by Clive Sansom (family and childhood to 1926), and copy of first chapter sent to Australian Literature Board (typescript).

Typescript. No date.

Including Speech Institute Course and lectures (1938, 1947), notes and quotations, Sunday School Teachers' Conference (1963).

Clive Sansom's reviews: typescripts, cuttings and some correspondence.

Briar Rose and other plays with choruses edited by Clive Sansom, The Children's Theatre No. 10, London (A. & C. Black, no date), including "Briar Rose" and "The May Queen" by Clive Sansom, "The play of the Pleiades" by Mona Swann, "The Gentle Squire" by Eleanor Farjeon, and acting notes: book, typescript of "Briar Rose", manuscript music.

Words by Clive Sansom to Saint-Saens' Suite: script, correspondence - broadcast and concert performances.

Poetry and verse for children

Chorus Plays edited by Clive Sansom, Youth Theatre No. 4, London A. & C. Black (no date) containing short plays mostly arranged by Clive Sansom but not written by him: book, letter from Navy Records Society giving permission to reprint "Cawsand Bay", copy of "The Dumb Wife", a mime arranged by Clive Sansom from School Magazine March 1963. Also further collection of typed drafts of plays: "The Nightingale"; "The golden journey to Samarkand", J.E. Flecker; "The House of the Magi"; "The Enchanted Shirt" by John Hay (The School Magazine 1 April 1958, 3 pages 82-84); "Three Little Billy-Goats", Clive Sansom (The School Magazine June 1963); "How d'ye do" a mime, Clive Sansom; "Faithless Sally Brown", dramatization by Clive Sansom from a poem by Thomas Hood; "Captain Reece", W.S. Gilbert Bab Ballads, adapted by Clive Sansom (2 versions typescript); "Hiawatha" (3 typescripts and Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow, dramatised version by Florence Holbrook); "Robin Hood and Alan-a-Dale", dramatised by Clive Sansom, and poem; "Absolutely Nothing", Eleanor Farjean; "The Pied Piper", Robert Browning (abridged by Clive Sansom); "The Princess and the Gipsies", Frances Cornford; "Little Billee", W.M. Thackeray, dramatised by Clive Sansom; "The golden image", Clarissa Graves; "The Rose and the Cross"; "Guy Fawkes", a verse melodrama by Clive Sansom, also rough manuscript draft; "The Acts of Saltpeter, being ye true historie of ye gunpowder plot" (a "parody of Gordon Bottomley's 'Acts of St. Peter'"; "The ballad of the invisible gardener", based on the story of the twelve dancing princesses.

Tributes to Clive Sansom by friends, edited with biographical notes on contributors by Ruth Sansom.

Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, writings and poetry and speech education areligious writings and other material. Also contained in the collection are a collection of Ruth Sansom’s diaries and the personal papers and correspondence

Clive Sansom's correspondence with Helen Power and, as her literary executor after her death, with Mrs Rae Hogg and other relatives of Helen Power about publishing her poems. Correspondence includes comments on the broadcasts, biographical notes, reviews and correspondence about Helen Power's manuscripts and books (the manuscripts to go to the State Library, her French books to the lecturer in French at the University of Tasmania and books on poetry to the Poetry Group).

Preservation of England (1930-32), Lake Pedder (1967), stone buildings (1968-69), Lenah Valley sawmill (1970-78), Mount Stuart Community study (1977).

Conservation, Clive Sansom patron of Tasmanian Wilderness Society (1980), newscuttings, circulars, letters, tribute to Clive Sansom (1981).

Christmas poems and play commissioned by the A.B.C. 1970: manuscript, typescript, correspondence, broadcast script, notes, etc.

Letters received, with some drafts, copies or extracts of Clive Sansom's replies from:
Miscellaneous letters 1928-1934
"Babe" (first girlfriend) 1934-1936 (1 folder)
Allan Keeling (antiquarian bookseller and chicken farmer, Kent) 1932-1945 (3 folders)
Marjorie Holben (nee Morse) c1935-1943
Martin Miles (d.1944) and Helen J. Miles c1937-1958. From St. Ninians, Broadstairs, Kent; Oxford, Melbourne and army camps in Wales and England. Lance-Corp. Miles was killed in action in June 1944
Marjorie Gullan and Gertrude Kerby (speech training) c1943-1958.

Miscellaneous correspondence on religious and Quaker matters.

Correspondence relating to Clive Sansom.

Correspondence with publishers, ABC, budding poets, schools, politicians on conservation etc., Australian Literature Board Council about fellowship and tax, etc. 1974-76, correspondence with Higham Associates (authors' agents) 1962-81, correspondence with publishers, etc. mainly about copyright and permissions to publish (1950-83), royalty statements for tax and execution of estate (1976-82) and some personal correspondence. Also some letters from Brisbane Twelfth Night Theatre about a school of speech and drama 1957.

Cuttings of published poems, reviews, articles, short stories, letters to newspapers.

1. 1934-1970s: including "An evening with the Quakers" 1937 (p.12), introduction to Paul Scott's "I Gerontius" (p.32), statement to tribunal (conscientious objection c1940); drawing of Clive 1975.
2. 1930s-1970s: Including biographical details, "faith and service", short stories of 1940s, Quaker funeral testimony 1981, etc. (not entered in any particular order).
3. Reviews of Clive Sansom's work 1943-1950.
4. Poems and letters to newspapers 1958-1976.
5. Letters to newspapers 1974-1976.

Draft (in alphabetic book), typescript.

Diaries of Clive Sansom.

Diaries of Ruth Sansom mostly written in carbon copy notebooks (sometimes both carbon copy and torn out top copies exist), written intermittently:-
1934 Voyage to England (2 notebooks)
1934-36 Early days at the Speech Institute - critical of friends, lonely, London, visit to Cotswolds, teaching, vacation schools, Plymouth, King's Jubilee celebrations (loose pages and notebook)
1936-37, 1938-39 Engagement to Clive, holiday in Bavaria and Austria, married Clive at Quaker Meeting House, Winchmore Hill, war impending - Chamberlain (1938) (1 notebook)
1936 Bavarian holiday. Also notes 1945, 1946 (notebook - part unused)
September 1939 War Diary (loose pages and notebook)
1940 War-time diary (notebook - partly unused)
1940 War-time diary, also typed transcription (loose pages, typescript)
1939-1942 War-time diary (carbon notebook)

Diaries or journals: neatly written accounts of daily life, travels, etc. (in quarto volumes); "War Diary" 1939 (loose papers). Also rough diaries in pocket notebooks (some "not written up"). Also a few pages from a diary of c1926 or 1927 and extracts from notebooks c1930-1936.

Dorset Village. Sequence of poems: manuscript, typescript, proof copy, correspondence and notes, "Dorset word book" (alphabetic book of Dorset Dialect words) and notes.

Draft novels [1930s or 40s]
(1) "Fenley Green" a novel based on Enfield Chase (Middlesex, UK) including notes on history of Enfield, sketches, drafts, with note at front by Ruth Sansom "These notes have value in showing how Clive worked first on place backgrounds before setting his characters and writing the chapters".
(2) "To Voltaire": rough draft of a novel set in Dorsetshire involving a scientist, Dr. Barnes, and a small boy.

Draft novels [1930s or 40s]

Drawings of countryside, life studies, still life studies; illustrated manuscript of copies of poetry; "Christmas Fun" 1923, 1924, 1925 (booklets of drawings, jokes, etc. for Christmas); topographical studies of Norfolk, Southern England, Wales, with notes.

Cutting from The Observer, The Wayfarer (Quaker magazine), West Country Magazine, Poetry Review, etc., photocopy of manuscript "Poems - tokens of my love..." (bound into little booklet), Poetry Quarterly Spring 1943 (including Clive Sansom poem "I am a leaf").

Poetry and letters sent to newspapers, competition entries, etc. Including early poem "To Mother" (written at age 10) and school essay (at 13), and poems written for Kathleen Stone.

Cardboard clock to teach children to tell time (hours and hour hand in red, minute hand and minutes "past" and "to" in black), correspondence with agent Higham Associates - suggested an article for Child Education rather than trying to patent and market as toy.

Francis of Assisi: the Sun of Umbria, his life told in verse and prose, Hobart (Cat & Fiddle Press 1981). Also rough drafts of poems "St. Francis. Sun of Umbria (3 volumes), typescript, published copy, research notes including guides and postcards of Assisi (1970s), application for Commonwealth Literary Fund grant, correspondence with agent, publishers and ABC, etc. 1968-1980, poems published, script for performance and programs Winchester (1978) and St. Davids Cathedral, Hobart.

Notes for the "semi-retreat" and the "day of harmony", note on silence or "stillness".

Clive's poem "Innsbruck Bells" one of the poems read at the memorial meeting.

German translations of short stories

Poetry for children (pubished by Methuen 1966): draft, correspondence with Higham Authors' agents, and others 1963-1975.

Sketch play based on the film "Hans Christian Andersen" (Danny Kaye) for St. Virgil's College, with musical numbers from the film, produced by Melba Kelly: draft script and notes.

Personal papers. photographs and correspondence relating to Helen Power (1870-1957), Tasmanian poet

Including: "I bite my thumb: parodies and verses by Clive Sansom" with foreword "most of the items have either been accepted or rejected by Punch" (no date 1930s or 40s?). Manuscript and typescript papers in binder, with note at front by Ruth Sansom: "not published. These will need careful selecting and possibly revising. Those in 'I bite my thumb' were written long ago..." Also (b) "The Wet Land" (1932 a parody on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", suggested by a wet Sunday in Wales) and letter to Kathleen Stone about it; (c) draft introduction to "I bite my thumb"; (d) rhymes and limericks.

Clive Sansom's notes of ideas for works, often just a brief note together with press cuttings etc. of background information relating to a subject or a setting which had caught his eye [the cuttings have not been retained for archival preservation]. Topics include: Ideas for a novel "Psychiatry Hall"; miscellaneous notes of ideas; "Quaker family in America" (rough notes for a novel for children); "More things in Heaven and Earth" (anthology of supernatural happenings); "They saw it first" (anthology of historical anecdotes); "The voyage without return" (novel based on Keats journey to Naples); Anthologies (notes, list of titles for); "Drama" (rough notes for a novel with a theatrical setting - cuttings (not retained included "The actor's life from Observer Magazine 1966, "Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama - the first ten years", "memories of the Old Vic" by E. Phillips from The Listener 14 February 1957, "learning to be an actor" The Sphere 25 December 1954, etc.); Anthology of theatrical occasions "All wrong on the night"; "Arabs" - possible play or opera (numerous cuttings on oil rich Arab sheiks, "Ben Ayed's Harem" in the Tunisian Desert - Picture Post 5 January 1952, Kuwait etc. not retained); "Tea" for an anthology (cuttings not retained included photographs of antique tea pots and tea caddies, articles on tea, Osbert Lancaster: "The story of tea" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London), Olive Warner "The English teapot" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London 1948); "Last words"; stories for children; music hall and ballet (very rough notes - news cuttings on old music hall artists not retained); "By word of mouth" anthology for reading aloud (cuttings from Listener, Reader's Digest, Countryman, Countrylife etc. not retained); "In such a time" etc. (miscellaneous drafts); miscellaneous notes and diary extracts c1930s).

Typescript (for BBC 194-), letter from ABC about broadcast (1952, letter from ABC and script (1970).

In the Midst of Death: poems by Clive Sansom (privately printed 1940), dedicated "To Ruth": printed copy, typescript, correspondence, printer's bill (O.U.P.), reviews.

Account of last days in England and departure on "Orion" from Tilbury (12 November 1949), Ceylon, Fremantle, Adelaide (10 December), Hobart (by plane from Melbourne 12 December), Hobart and Southern Tasmania and people met, Baptist Tabernacle, note of "Things different in Tasmania", poem "country scene in Tasmania" (note by Ruth Sansom enclosed: "I think the only poem on Tasmania", first broadcast to schools, recital, finished "Passion Play", poems: "Drought", "Oyster shells", "Deaf".

Modern poetry (5 lectures - University College, 1939); Modern poetry (Tottenham YWCA 1939?); Choral speaking (1943); T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (Progressive League 1947).

"The quality of language" off-print from Spoken English (Journal of the English Speaking Board) London, vol. 7 no. 2 May 1974, and shortened version for New Zealand Education magazine; "Australian speech" (typescript, no date); "We the Murderers: a study in poeticide" (typescript - lecture to teachers, no date); "Why read faster?" (1970); "Professor Higgins - imposter". Also (b) foreword by Clive Sansom for Bruce Proverbs' book "Business Communication and correspondence".

Including: Edward Bonner (February 1938 manuscript); Behold this Dreamer (typescript no date); The head and the heart (Farnham 1948 typescript); Religion and Art (1949 typescript), Friends School (1951); Friends Annual Conference 1952: Our faith and service (see also cutting book DX18/79 (2)); peace testimony Town Hall, Hobart (30 July 1958); religious broadcasts, Word and Vision (1960); Meditations (21 December 1961, 2 January, 31 January, 28 February, 26 August, 1 November 1962); Quakerism and the Arts (September 1963); Quakers and Peace (December 1963); The religious basis of our Peace Testimony (no date, typescript); Quakers and the Sacraments (no date, typescript); Should religious education be abolished? (no date, typescript notes for discussion); The First Teacher (no date, typescript); "Spiritual Canticles". See also "An evening with the Quakers" June 1937 in cutting book DX18/79(1) p.12).

Tributes to Clive Sansom.

Plays adapted for radio by Clive Sansom and first broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for schools only, including correspondence with agent and publishers, contracts, reviews, typescripts: 2 "Thunder Country" from the novel by Armstrong Sperry, adapted for radio by Clive Sansom; 4 "Lost Lagoon" from story by Armstrong Sperry; 5 "Kidnapped" from novel by R.L. Stevenson; 6 "Columbus Sails" from book by C. Walter Hodges; 7 "Lost Horizon" from novel by James Hilton; 9 "Seal Morning" from story by Rowena Farre; 11 "Oliver Twist" from the novel by Charles Dickens; 13 "Nightmare Abbey" from the fantastic novel by T.L. Peacock; 15 "The Golden Apples of the Hesperides" from the Greek legend; 16 "The wooden horse of Troy" from the Greek legend; 17 "The boy who was Afraid" from the South-Sea story by Armstrong Sperry; 18 "The Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; 19 "The crowning of dreaming John" dramatisation of poem by John Drinkwater; 20 "At the Tabard Inn" based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; 21 "Town Planning" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 22 "Trees and Forestry" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 23 "A book is written" a documentary by Clive Sansom, prepared for "Book Week" in Tasmania; 24 "Conservation Day" a documentary by Clive Sansom.

Address book - "commercial travellers journal with Newton Chambers & Co. (c1928-34); notebooks (very rough notes and drafts), word notebook.

German translations of short stories

Originally published for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the late 1940s: letter from LAMDA asking if it could be republished (October 1977): duplicated typescript, draft, notes, correspondence with Bodley Head.

A novel: correspondence with Methuen and R.K.S., research notes including Oberammergau programme and postcards, newscuttings, etc. relating to Oberammergau, manuscript in notebooks, typescript.

Drawings and sketches, family photo albums, and correspondence regarding conservation.

Family photographs of Clive and Ruth Sansom.

Family photographs of Clive and brother as children, ?parents and grandparents, ?brother's children (photographs not labelled or dated).

Short plays or sketches for speech classes, etc. (unpublished?): "Interruption, a play in one act"; "The King's servants"; "Shuffled Words, a sketch"; "Friday night at the junction"; "Celestial Meeting, a stage play for three women only"; "The new Alcestis"; "The return journey, an epilogue to Flecker's epilogue - Samarkand"; "Uplift, a sketch"; "Verona to suburbia, a sketch by Clive Sansom (in collaboration with William Shakespeare)"; Untitled (brief sketch on Good Speech); "Rinaldo and St. Julian"; "The Journey, an experiment in one act"; "The Journey, a play for broadcasting"; "How it is done, a sketch for broadcasting"; "Dream Meeting, a play for broadcasting".
See also Microphone Plays (DX18/60)

Letter from Macmillan Australia suggesting the possibility of a new collection of one act plays for the junior secondary level, and draft of play by C.S. "William Caxton".

Including dog ballads (see also "These happy breeds"), children's poems, correspondence with The Listener, Country Life, Poetry Review, etc., Akhenaton Poems (manuscript c1970-71 - drafts for a ? sequence, see also "Akhnaton's Hymn" in In the Midst of Death (9) and in The Poet Speaks). Some earlier poems included.

Drafts of reading selections for the Junior School and for the Senior School and correspondence with University of London Press and with Rodney Bennett.

Lecture at Friends House, London, 7 March 1948: correspondence, draft, typed copy, printed pamphlet, reprint 1978 with introduction by Charles Kohler and "afterword".

Business correspondence postage accounts, noting postage and addresses, including publishers, ABC, schools and speech teachers, booksellers, politicians.

Clive Sansom's correspondence with publishers and reviewers, accounts for fund for the publication - remainder of funds for a poetry prize - cheque book, copies of advertisements and reviews including review by Judith Wright, copy of poem "your heart has an irregular beat" written shortly before she died and printed with photographs in Australian Book Review March 1965. Also manuscript music "I am no nearer proving thee" - words by Helen Power, music by Richard Graves.

Opera for Children's Theatre, music by Don Kay: drafts.

Recitals by Clive and Ruth Sansom.

Notes, programs, correspondence.

Correspondence with the Religious Society of Friends and various lectures on religion. Note: Clive Sansom also collected many cuttings of articles on religious topics, prayers, sayings etc., but these have not been retained in Archives.

Return to Magic c1969.
Poems of fairy tales:- correspondence and reviews 1966-1969.

Book reviews for Nation Review

Acting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom, London (A. & C. Black 1947): drafts, correspondence with publisher, book, reviews, revision; Rhythm Rhymes by Ruth Sansom, London (A. & C. Black, 1965): correspondence with publisher and with Argo about possible publication of recording (and of Activity Rhymes); Speech Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom (new edition 1974): correspondence 1972-1974; Counting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom: draft, rejects, correspondence 1973-74; "Conversation Rhymes": rhymes collected for a possible collection (1970s?).

Diaries of Ruth Sansom; and notes for a Friends Meeting in 1985.

Senior English: "Imagery in poetry", draft and script.

Encounter at Cheal; Baronial Duologue (or Hawkesworth Hall); Grandad's Ghost; the Double Image; The man who pulled down walls; Many do imagine; The Meeting. (Some appeared in John O'London's Weekly 1943-4 - see cutting book DX18/79(1) and some appeared in German papers DX18/75.

Most appear to have been written at Palmers Green, London, some at Reigate, Surrey and the last three in Tasmania (but some have no indication of date), most apparently unpublished (but see cutting book DX18/79) (1) for cuttings of a few):- The monster of the Loch (c1933 - "sent to Daily Mail" - returned, alterations made since but... story with the same name has appeared in another paper Clive Sansom January 1934"); The end of a journey; The walled garden, a fantasy; Hoddesdon's Marvel (1936); The figure head; Honour is satisfied; Thirteenth time lucky; The Church; "Good night, Gentlemen"; Jubilee, an impression; Lost and found! A Roman road at Winchmore Hill; The stream, a sketch; a monograph on teashops; These modern poets; "Tibby ; A woman's will; The little Christian; The apple tree; The lost wood [Enfield Chase]; Two shots; Freedom; Silk stockings; The butterfly; Marionettes; One man's system; sonnet XX [Shakespeare]; Detection; "... and blossom as the rose" (1940); The testament of Yalta Smith, a political short story (1944?); Voices; The water cure (or "marquees and other matters"); Keats accent; A very fishy story; Confessions of a Fairy Queen; The day the elephant passed; The Fast; Miss Emily's Teeth; Widow Finnigan's music.

Including "The double image" published in Neue Illustrierte, "Encounter in Cheale" in Die Frau, and others in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Wesdeutsche Allgemine, correspondence and cuttings. See also ghost stories DX18/33 and scrapbook DX18/79(1).

Correspondence with Richard Graves and David Higham (author's agent) about poems and music.

Poems written by Clive Sansom for musical setting: correspondence, drafts, printed publications etc. relating to:- "The carpenter's son" a carol, music by Richard Graves; "Stiasny": two songs, The Forest Wind, Inscription for an old tomb, poems by Clive Sansom, music by Walter Stiasny (Hinrichsen edition 1953); "The Wood", music by Walter Stiasny for a dramatic low voice (1952); "The Word made Child", music by Cecil Matheson (1956-8); "The Shepherd's Carol", music by Richard Graves (195-); "Sleep Tiny Child", lullaby from the "World Turned Upside Down", music by Richard Graves (195-); "Butterflies", music by Richard Graves (ND); "The Farmyard, ten songs, words by Clive Sansom, music by Richard Graves (Piccaninny's Lullaby, The Caterpillar, The Mice & the Cat, Fishing, The Policeman, The Rabbit and the Fox, Miss Mouse, Oak Trees, The Farmyard (1962); "The Candle Carol" (from The Cathedral request from Colin Brumby for permission to set it to music; "Blessed be that maid Mary" (Anglicised by Clive Sansom for Wilfred King; "Song" [Bramber (set to music by Richard Graves - music not published); "The Carol of Three" (1956, 1965); "The Witch and the Wizard", an operetta for young children, music by John Gordon, words by Clive Sansom (from Acting Rhymes); "The Irish Fiddler" (from the Golden Unicorn); "The shepherd's Carol", music by Mrs M.T. Smith (1971); "Mary of Nazareth" (from The Witnesses music by Ralph Middenway for Perth Festival etc. 1972). Also copy of poem [for simple musical accompaniment] "The Murder on the Lonely Farm".

Correspondence, programs, reviews, newscuttings, competition certificates, relating to Clive and Ruth Sansom's work in speech training, the Speech Fellowship Institute directed by Marjorie Gullan, Marjorie Gullan's Verse Speaking Choir, verse speaking competitions, LAMDA, Adult Education, etc., including correspondence with Marjorie Gullan, Kathleen stone, Ann Croasdale, LCC Education Dept. and London University, etc. (see also general correspondence) and article by Clive Sansom in Adult Education Vol. X No. 1 September 1937 and obituary of M. Gullan (pioneer of speech training and Quaker) by Clive Sansom in Speech & Drama vol. 9 no. 2 January 1960. See also Bible Reading course at Speech Institute 1938 (DX18/69).

Under the Tasmanian Department of Education, directed by Clive and Ruth Sansom 1950-1968: description of Centre and duties of Supervisor, reports, correspondence, practice material (not by Clive Sansom), articles by Clive Sansom, "The speech machine: some notes for candidates in the Schools Board 'Art of speech' course, prepared by Clive Sansom" 1962, "Listening" - general sheet - infant/primary, "Spoken English" from Opinion j. of South Australia English Teachers Association ND, etc., including later correspondence about speech training (1970-78) and letter to Ruth Sansom about copies of Clive Sansom Collected Poems; "Marjorie Gullan - some reminiscences" (typescript, ND). Also file relating to the migration of Maurice and Gillian (nee Lousley) Hilliard, speech educators 1955-1964 (moved to Wollongong 1964).

Speech in the Primary School 1965 (A. & C. Black), third edition 1974 as Speech and Communication in the Primary School: correspondence with A. & C. Black, notes, newspaper cuttings, music, notes on school speech training.

Speech of Our Time compiled and edited by Clive Sansom, London (Hinrichsen 1948): correspondence and reviews.

Papers relating to special war-time service by Quaker conscientious objectors and the "Spiceland" Centre. See also Clive's statement to the tribunal (conscientious objection) in cutting book DX18/79 (1) (back of volume).

Correspondence with agent and publishers (publisher not found).

Typescripts, broadcast script, printed copy, correspondence, research notes including printed material on Winchester Cathedral and on St. Swithun (performed in Winchester Cathedral 1971).

Typescript, notes, application for grant, agent's correspondence.

Poems, written for the 700th anniversary of Salisbury Cathedral 1961: manuscript, typescript, published copy, notes on history, broadcast script, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, programmes. Also printed copy of poem "Innsbruck Bells".

Page proofs, correspondence with Resurgam Books. Introduction by Clive Sansom but none of his poems included.

Clive Sansom's version of Mozart's operetta, including typescripts, published copies of original and other versions, and correspondence.

Typescript, reviews, published pamphlet (1947 Oxford University Press).

Publication for the Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, including typescript, notes, correspondence.

The Unfailing Spring, Clive Sansom, introduction by Walter de la Mare, "Resurgam" Younger Poets, London (Favil 1943): book, some typed poems, correspondence with publishers, contract, reviews (1942-45).

A collection of sayings on speech collected by Clive Sansom manuscript and typescript draft (not published).

Manuscript, typescript, Poems 1951, The prize-winning entries for the Festival of Britain competition (Penguin Poets 1951 - includes "The Witnesses), The Witnesses and Other Poems by Clive Sansom (Methuen, London 1956): proof copy and published copy (4th reprint 1965). 12 folders of notes, correspondence, cuttings of reviews, etc. of performances, essays by school children on seeing a peformance, letter about possible recording by Argo Record Co. (1962), letter about American market (1972).