MS 924 01 03 50
Reference code
MS 924 01 03 50
Title
Hugo Williams: ‘Some Sweet Day’ drafts: Miscellaneous manuscripts and typescripts
Level
File
Date
1974-1975
Extent & medium
63 sheets
Content description
This file contains various manuscripts and typescripts that were filled separately from the drafts of individual poems as well as drafts of poems that were considered for the work but omitted from the final publication. The drafts are mainly early versions of the poems written under original titles.
The sheets often contain more than one poem and are a mix of typescript and manuscript drafts.
It includes:
‘Sonny Jim Crowned’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Midsummer’: 2 clean copy typescripts
‘The Sun Creeps’: 3 autograph manuscripts
‘First-Night’ (‘I pour whisky’): 2 autograph manuscripts
‘The Nestling’ (The Bird who stoops): 6 autograph manuscripts
‘Avenues’ (‘The minutes wake up’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘The curtains glow’: 2 autograph manuscripts and 1 corrected typescript
‘Night Window’ (‘The gentleman with a broom’): 3 autograph manuscripts
‘Black on Grey’ (‘When Pompey’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘Last Night’: 1 autograph manuscript and 1 clean copy typescript
‘All of these words’: 1 corrected typescript
‘The Mirror Waits’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘The North’ (‘Water turns back’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘Dust’ (‘We sit bolt upright’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘The Boy in the Bell’ (‘Over my Head’): 1 corrected typescript
‘Night hissing’: 1 autograph manuscript and 1 corrected typescript
‘The Prisoner’: 3 autograph manuscripts
‘Revolving Stage’ (‘Gold on the Doorstep’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘The Black Pagoda’ (‘The Secret is in’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘Beachcombers’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Synopsis’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Bird in the Holly Tree’: 1 autograph manuscript and 1 corrected typescript
‘When I stare for hours’: 1 autograph manuscript and 1 corrected typescript
‘In the heart of the mirror’: 1 clean copy typescript
‘On the opposite bank’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘The poem about itself’: 3 autograph manuscripts
‘Hu-Man’: 1 clean copy typescript
‘The clocks undress’: 2 autograph manuscripts and 5 corrected manuscripts
‘Floating like some lost flower’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Or lives fly well’: 1 corrected typescript
‘King and Queen’: 1 corrected typescript
‘The page is a curtain’ (later 'Now and Again' which was published in 'Love Life' - see MS 924 04 03): 1 autograph manuscript
‘When the visitor we both life’: 3 autograph manuscripts
‘Smiling or Hungry’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘The Expatriates’: 1 autograph manuscript
The sheets often contain more than one poem and are a mix of typescript and manuscript drafts.
It includes:
‘Sonny Jim Crowned’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Midsummer’: 2 clean copy typescripts
‘The Sun Creeps’: 3 autograph manuscripts
‘First-Night’ (‘I pour whisky’): 2 autograph manuscripts
‘The Nestling’ (The Bird who stoops): 6 autograph manuscripts
‘Avenues’ (‘The minutes wake up’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘The curtains glow’: 2 autograph manuscripts and 1 corrected typescript
‘Night Window’ (‘The gentleman with a broom’): 3 autograph manuscripts
‘Black on Grey’ (‘When Pompey’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘Last Night’: 1 autograph manuscript and 1 clean copy typescript
‘All of these words’: 1 corrected typescript
‘The Mirror Waits’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘The North’ (‘Water turns back’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘Dust’ (‘We sit bolt upright’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘The Boy in the Bell’ (‘Over my Head’): 1 corrected typescript
‘Night hissing’: 1 autograph manuscript and 1 corrected typescript
‘The Prisoner’: 3 autograph manuscripts
‘Revolving Stage’ (‘Gold on the Doorstep’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘The Black Pagoda’ (‘The Secret is in’): 1 autograph manuscript
‘Beachcombers’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Synopsis’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Bird in the Holly Tree’: 1 autograph manuscript and 1 corrected typescript
‘When I stare for hours’: 1 autograph manuscript and 1 corrected typescript
‘In the heart of the mirror’: 1 clean copy typescript
‘On the opposite bank’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘The poem about itself’: 3 autograph manuscripts
‘Hu-Man’: 1 clean copy typescript
‘The clocks undress’: 2 autograph manuscripts and 5 corrected manuscripts
‘Floating like some lost flower’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘Or lives fly well’: 1 corrected typescript
‘King and Queen’: 1 corrected typescript
‘The page is a curtain’ (later 'Now and Again' which was published in 'Love Life' - see MS 924 04 03): 1 autograph manuscript
‘When the visitor we both life’: 3 autograph manuscripts
‘Smiling or Hungry’: 1 autograph manuscript
‘The Expatriates’: 1 autograph manuscript
Associated material
The draft table of contents listed under MS 924 03 01 01 provides various lists of the poems considered and the original titles
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