Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986
Person
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Annotated typescripts of eight poems of W S Graham.
File
Identifier: Acc.11274
Dates:
1941-1977 and undated.
Correspondence between Tom Scott and correspondents with surnames beginning, G., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.11750/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Sydney Graham, C M Grieve, and Neil M Gunn.
Dates:
Undated.
Five letters to Hamish Henderson, three of Norman Buchan and one each of William S Graham and Agnes Graham.
File
Identifier: Acc.10627
Dates:
1958-1990.
Four letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Nataly Nesterenko; with two possibly unpublished poems of W S Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13263
Scope and Contents
Nataly Nesterenko was married to William Featherston, a Canadian artist, and the couple were friends of W S and Nessie Graham. The friendship survived the Featherston`s divorce and the letters show the Graham`s concern for Nataly Nesterenko during a difficult period in her life. The two typescript poems are untitled, but the first lines are ...
Dates:
1972-1979.
Letter of W S Graham to Gavin Saunders, in which Graham makes some observations on his own poetry, with a signed and dedicated copy of `The Poetry Book Society Bulletin` (Autumn 1977), containing an article by W S Graham.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13243
Dates:
1981.
Letter of William S Graham to William Price Turner.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9632
Scope and Contents
Concerns literary matters.
Dates:
1953.
Letter of William Sydney Graham to Nessie Dunsmuir, written on fly-leaf of first issue of `Poetry Scotland`, discussing current Scottish poetry and poets.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13679
Dates:
1944.
Letters and postcards, 1970-1980 and undated, of W.S. Graham to William Featherston, with a few letters of Nessie Graham and others; typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript of draft sections of long poems, 1958 and undated, including `The Dark Dialogues` and `With the Dulle Griet in Canada`; silk screen print portrait of W.S. Graham by William Featherston; and CD and audio-cassette of BBC radio broadcast by W.S. Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13163
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...
Dates:
1958, 1970-1980, and undated.
Letters, cards and drawings of W. S. Graham to Margaret "Biddy" Crozier and her daughters; with related printed material.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13531
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...
Dates:
1950-1984 and undated.
Letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Sylvia Thompson; with photographs and artwork.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13264
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1982-1987.
Letters of W S Graham to Ruth Rosen.
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Identifier: Acc.11885
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of Nessie Graham, Anthony Astbury, Geoffrey Godbert and Harold Pinter, participants in W S Graham readings.
Dates:
1977-1986.
Letters of W.S. Graham to Ruth Hilton; with poetry manuscripts and typescripts, artwork, related correspondence and published items.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13838
Dates:
circa 1956-1985.
Letters, poems, notebook and drawings of W.S. Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13727
Dates:
1956-1978.
Manuscripts, 1957-1958 and undated, of comic and bawdy verse written by William Sydney Graham during visits to the Gurnard`s Head Hotel, Zennor, Cornwall.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13064
Dates:
1957-1958.
Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of translations of poetry and prose by George S Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.11406
Scope and Contents
Includes related correspondence, 1965-1986, and an undated manuscript of W S Graham.
Dates:
1965-1986 and undated.
Notebook of W S Graham containing drafts of poems, a radio play, notes and illustrations.
File
Identifier: Acc.12979
Dates:
1942-1973.
Papers of Sylvia Thompson, of and relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Crombie Saunders and William Sydney Graham; with copies of published works of William Sydney Graham and Robert Crombie Saunders.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13390/1-8
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942, 1945, 1955, 1966-2008.
Papers of W S Graham, originally from the collection of Alan Clodd.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12468
Scope and Contents
Includes notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and letters, mostly to Alan Clodd.
Dates:
circa 1937-1981.
Three letters of William S Graham, one to Antony Lopez and two to John Mack.
File
Identifier: Acc.9704
Scope and Contents
Concerning literary matters.
Dates:
1981.
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