Scope and Contents William Featherston, a Canadian artist, lived and worked in Cornwall during the 1960s. During this period he became a friend of Sydney and Nessie Graham. Featherston returned to Canada in 1971, and the friends corresponded over the next decade. The letters and cards are wide-ranging, intensely personal, and often enriched with Graham`s drawings and doodles. The sections of typescript poetry (some of it carbon typescript and photocopies) include draft passages from `The Dark Dialogues` and...

Scope and Contents Letters, cards and drawings, 1950-1984 and undated, of William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) to Margaret ‘Biddy’ Crozier and her daughters, Blake and Johanna (`Jo`); with accompanying printed matter.Biddy Crozier occasionally wrote to poets whose work she admired, and this sometimes led to close and supportive friendships. In the words of her daughter Jo, often the poets ‘were delighted to know an intelligent woman with a spare bed in London’. A long-lasting friendship developed...

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Sylvia Thompson became friendly with the Grahams in the 1980s. From a nursing background, she became a great source of practical help to the couple during W S Graham`s last years, which were dogged by ill-health. The great affection in which she was held by the Grahams is evident in the letters, and in the various gifts of photographs and drawings.