Box: 9 Fold: 36 Christopher Sykes MSS - "The Computer's Tale" Box: 9 Fold: 37 Christopher Sykes MSS - "Historical Ode" Box: 9 Fold: 38 Christopher Sykes MSS - [re the Mediterranean Sea] Box: 9 Fold: 39 Christopher Sykes MSS - "The Middle East"
5 pp. Includes note by HG: "Should be available to historians."
Box: 9 Fold: 40 Christopher Sykes MSS - Cartoon Box: 9 Fold: 41 Christopher Sykes MSS - Book Review (Galley) Box: 10 Fold: 1 David Jones: Manuscripts - Miscellaneous (xerox copies) Box: 10 Fold: 2 David Jones: Manuscripts - "In Parenthesis" (Galleys)
February 1967
DESCRIPTION: Contains AMs of a poem by CS composed at a BBC administrative meeting in February 1967. Yellow tag w/ note by HG reads: "BBC Entertainment. CS composed it at a dreadfully boring meeting."
c.1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains AMsS of comic poem by CS entitled,"Historical Ode." Includes note by HG on yellow tag: "date: 1938 - probably refers to Russo-German Pact of non-agression - never sincere on either side & broken by Hitler in his ill-advised invasion/attack on Russia which lost him the war."
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains AMsS, 2 pp., signed by CS and HG. Described by HG and transcribed onto a yellow note tag by Sabina Bailey: "My hazy remembrance is of a boring, noisy party. C & I got rather drunk; someone made a derogatory remark about the Mediterranean and its sea board people, Greeks, Romans, etc. I wrote the 1st few lines, then C, then me, etc. - to amuse ourselves because the party was so boring. We then left. Drunken handwriting obvious! date?"
Dated January 2, 1940
DESCRIPTION: Contains TMsS entitled, "The Middle East. Political and Religious Symbols."
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains ink cartoon by CS with dialogue.
1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains galleys, 3 pp., of a book review written by CS for Encounter magazine. Entitled, "Failure upon Failure." A review of "Brian Howard - Portrait of a Failure," by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains xerox copies of manuscripts by David Jones, 4 pp. Includes a typed note: "This roll contains four sheets copied by Kate Campbell who possess the originals. The three ms sheets await the decision of DJ scholars. They may be drafts subsequently revised. They may be - one or other [of] them - missing sheets or a sheet from a completed ms. Perhaps the most interesting is David's annotation of his engraving known as the Bride. What David wrote to Rene Hague probably shows that its subject is the Cruifixion of Christ."
c. 1937
DESCRIPTION: Contains galleys, 4 pp., for a section of "In Parenthesis." These pages were sent to HG.
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