Scope and Contents Contains: 2 leaves torn from a notebook containing rejected verses dated 2 March, 1977, and 13 March 1977, plus 2 further leaves dated 4 April 1979 containg workings of another poems 'Dead dark grasses . . .'; A bundle of leaves torn from an unlined notebook/sketch book circa late 1950s, all ms workings of poems, but mostly diary entries/thoughts, plus sketches. This manuscript contains later notes and comments on the text written in pencil by Roy Fisher, and the pages are numbered 3–150...

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Folder marked 'Roy Fisher. MSS' containing loose mainly typescript poems, but also: a copy of 'Uncle Jim's Will' which mentions Roy Fisher; a poem 'The Blue Moor' by Pete Brown; 'Prosepoem Towards a Definition of Itself' by Brian Patten; stapled, ten-page booklet 'Juliet of the Spirits: Summary', typescript on Fellini's 1965 film.

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Folder marked 'Professional Courses' containing typescript poems possibly for a Collected.

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Folder marked 'Modern' containing typescript poems (possibly for teaching purposes); a mimeoed, ten-page side-stapled booklet, 'Poems by Roy Fisher'.

Scope and Contents Eleven folders containing: 1. 'Diaries and Dreams 1949–1951', typescript, 56 leaves; 'Prose Pieces', typescript, 45 leaves, pencil annotations from a later date by Roy Fisher. 2. 'Poems Volume One (1–78, 1949–1956)', typescript with manuscript corrections, 58 leaves. 3. 'Poems Volume Two (79–125, 1957–1958)', typescript with manuscript corrections, 46 leaves. 4. Untitled folder of typescript poems, some on yellow paper, 65 leaves. 5. 'Collected Uncollected II', typescript and manuscript...

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Two folders containing Roy Fisher's final, third copy of his thesis on five of Norman Mailer's novels which were published between 1948 and 1967.

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Folder containing a proof typescript copy (50 leaves) of Roy Fisher's autobiographical essay for entry into the CA Autobiography Series, together with a letter from Mark Zadrozny enclosing the proofs. Also includes two shorter typescript versions (4 leaves, 2 leaves). The article was published in volume 10, 1989.

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Folder containing translations into English of Franz Schubert's song cycles: Winterreise, typescript, 24 leaves, no title page present, manuscript corrections in Roy Fisher's and another's hand; songs 11–24 of Winterreise, 14 leaves, song 23 in manuscript form; Swan Song, 14 leaves; Die schöne Müllerin, 1969 draft, 20 leaves, Roy Fisher manuscript corrections; Die schöne Müllerin, Sept. 1971 revision, 20 leaves, one manuscript note.

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Brown envelope containing copy of print out of Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems, translated by Valentina Polukhina and Roy Fisher, some pencil corrections, 16 leaves, includes manuscript notes of pronunciation of Russian consonants.