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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.

Autograph and typescript drafts of autobiographical essays by Dannie Abse, published in A Strong Dose of Myself (1983).

Autograph and typescript drafts by Dannie Abse of a lecture, 'Pegasus and the Rocking Horse', 1981, and autobiographical essays, 'Return Ticket to Cardiff', and 'A Voice of My Own', all published in A Strong Dose of Myself (1983); and a draft of a script for a BBC programme on Anglo-Welsh poetry.

Autograph and typescript drafts of the dramatisation of Abse's poem 'Funland', as performed at the Questor's Theatre, Ealing, June 1975.

Autograph and typescript drafts of Abse's play 'Gone', performed in a one act version (ff. 1-26) at the Questor's Theatre, Ealing, June 1962, and in three acts at the Edinburgh Festival, 1977.

Autograph and typescript drafts and fair copies by Dannie Abse of the poems 'In the Theatre' (see Funland and Other Poems, 1973), 'Snake' (see Way Out in the Centre, 1981) and 'The Test' (see Collected Poems, 1977) with a printed version of 'Lunchtime', 1974; and drafts and fragments of autobiographical notes and essays, including 'Princeton Journal', 1973-1974, 'The Crowning of Kid Brother', c. 1977, and 'Sorry, Miss Crouch', all published in A Strong Dose of Myself (1983).

Playscript (two copies), with autograph revisions, of Abse's play 'Pythagoras' as performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1976.

Autograph and typescript drafts of the radio adaptation of Abse's play Pythagoras, broadcast 1977, together with draft introduction to the published text of the play, 1979.

Autograph and typescript revisions of Abse's play 'Funland', under the title 'Pythagoras', for performance at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, September-October 1976.

Autograph and typescript drafts of scripts by Dannie Abse for BBC television and radio programmes, 'Dylan Thomas lived here', 1975, 'Words', 1976, 'The Light of Experience', 1977, and 'Finding a voice', 1978; a draft of an essay, 'The Charisma of Quacks'; and untitled fragments.