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- 1951-[1960s] (Creation)
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21 ff. (f. 14 formerly folded as two leaves)
Placed in melinex sleeves within ringed binder at NLW.
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Miscellaneous papers of Clifford Dyment, 1951-[late 1960s], comprising the first five pages of a typescript prose story entitled 'She Wanted to Pick Bluebells' (ff. 1-6); a typescript autobiographical fragment entitled 'I / dep. Nottingham (Victoria)', possibly the beginning of his follow-up to The Railway Game (London, 1962), [late 1960s] (ff. 7-9); a typescript page, apparently of a voiceover script for a television programme concerning animals, [?1960s] (f. 10); a manuscript piece beginning 'We are none of us the same person always', [mid 1960s] (f. 11); a rough draft of a poem, [mid 1950s] (f. 12); miscellaneous notes (ff. 13-20), containing references to Turgenev's 'The Torrents of Spring' (f. 14) and to Germany and the Nazis (ff. 15-20); and a letter, 1 April 1953, from E. N. Hogben of the Religious Drama Society apparently concerning Dyment's play 'Mr Everyman' (f. 21).
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Arranged at NLW as follows: prose; poetry; notes; correspondence.
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- English
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Some items were previously loose in other manuscripts: ff. 10-11 (NLW MS 24080D), ff. 12, 16-21 (NLW MS 24081D), f. 13 (NLW ex 2927 (ii)), ff. 14-15 (NLW MS 24082C).
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- English