Papers, 1962-1983, of Dannie Abse, comprising autograph and typescript drafts of poems, plays (including a dramatisation of his poem 'Funland', later titled 'Pythagoras'), essays, and television and radio scripts.
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1988-1995 purchases:
Literary, editorial and personal correspondence, draft and unpublished poetry, short stories and other works, and miscellaneous papers, 1955-1995; unpublished short stories and articles, articles and essays, reviews, lectures, plays, broadcasts, ghost-writing, miscellaneous prose, and editorials.
December 2022 purchase:
Papers, mostly relating to the literary career of poet, writer and physician Dannie Abse, comprising poetry, prose, plays, articles and reviews, diaries and notebooks, correspondence, accounts and press cuttings. Together with papers of or relating to Abse's wife, the writer and art historian Joan Abse.
Abse, Dannie
Printed material, photocopies and ephemera relating to Dannie Abse
(i) Miscellaneous printed material and photocopies, 1972-1981, relating to Dannie Abse and his work; (ii) photocopies relating to Dannie Abse and his work and corrected proofs and bound proof copy of his autobiographical volume A Strong Dose of Myself (1983); (iii) Corrected proofs, published texts and printed ephemera, 1962-1981, relating to Dannie Abse and his plays 'Funland', Pythagoras and Gone.
Abse, Dannie