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Five manuscript and two typescript letters, 30 November 1956-10 September 1957, from Wystan [Hugh] Auden, Forio d'Ischia, near Naples, and Oxford, to Vernon Watkins (ff. 1-7), together with one poem by Auden (f. 8).
The letters concern the choices and alternative choices for Poetry Book Society recommendations, the judges of which were Auden, Watkins and Vita Sackville-West; Auden refers to works by Thom Gunn, Roy Campbell, Theodore Roethke, Edmund Blunden and Louis MacNeice. Enclosed with the final letter is a typescript copy of Auden's poem 'The More Loving One' (see Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (London, 1966), p. 282).

A Book of Private Prayer used as a scrapbook, 1927-1944, by the Rev. B. G. Rees, Curate of Defynock (1934-36), Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), and Rector of Llansannor (1944-48); the volume consists mostly of press cuttings and letters relating to his ordination and career and his column in the Bridgend Advertiser, with some syllabuses for his lecture courses at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre with the WEA and YMCA (45 ff.). Also included are proofs, [?1938], of W. H. Auden's twenty-seven sonnet sequence 'In Time of War', for publication in W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Journey to a War (London, 1939), pp. 259-285; the proofs contain a very few manuscript emendations by the author and suggested titles for some of the sonnets and were given to Rees by Auden (see Auden's letter, NLW MS 24059E, f. 2) (6 ff.).