Notebook formerly property of P.K. Schmidt and including a few pages of mathematical calculations, c.1952-1959

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Containers:
Box 1 (MS 6640)
Component identifier:
File 2
Content Summary:

Notebook predominantly filled with unpublished poems, but also including text of unfinished play, 'The Sea Coast of Bohemia', a few handwritten reviews, sketches, letters etc. and the texts of the poems listed below which were included in Once bitten, twice bitten. Too Worn To Wear; All, All of a Piece Throughout; The Smell on the Landing; Suicide Unmasked; Forefathers' View of Failure; Lament for a Proitemrietor

Among the unpublished poems are several which have titles used again for later and published works, such as 'Real People', 'Strike Me the Largest Doe', 'The Recipe', 'For John Clare from London', 'The Picture of Nobody', and 'Tunes for the Fortunately' (244p., 68 poems, mostly written in pencil).

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Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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