Notes on Poetry and T.S. Eliot - notes by Angus Graham on Eliot's poetry.

Thomas Manning was an inveterate note-taker, making notes about all aspects of knowledge that interested him. These notes and notebooks cover from his early mathematical and poetical musing, through his travels in China and Tibet to later concerns regarding Roman Catholic emancipation. They have been organised into various sections mainly according to their subject manner.Thus:

• TM/9/1: Notebook with inserts from time at university to later life and covering all topics.
• TM/9/2 - 5 A series of notebooks from Manning's time in China and Tibet including notes on his travels and language studies
• TM/9/6 Loose notes from Chinese period
• TM/9/7 Pocket almanacs with annotations
• TM/9/8 Poetry and Riddles
• TM/9/9 Mathematical Notes and Notebooks
• TM/9/10 Notes on Roman Catholic Emancipation

Note from Hal and Sandra to send Angus the work of another poet, undated

Sheet of draft poems, possibly nonsense rhymes. Also some Latin script possibly connected to the printed header. Handwritten, 1 piece, 1 side

Four files concerned with musical compositions, both by Graham and others.

Letterfrom Robert Bly to Angus Graham concerning his poem, The Sun Beneath the Coral, which Bly had read in the papers.

Letter from Nathaniel Tarn, Cape Goliard Press, to Angus Graham to inform Graham that he has been unable to get Cape to publish The Sun Beneath the Coral. He suggests a more avant-garde magazine. He sends an article from World Wide Open; "The Work Laid Before Us in this Disunited Kingdom" by Nathaniel Tarn.

Letter from I.A. Richards to Angus Graham to thank him for Values and Myth which was given to him by Kathleen Raine. He sends a copy of an unpublished paper which may be of interest to Graham.

Letter from Hugh Porteus to Angus Graham to send the 'enclosed rigmarole' (not present). He writes of the melancholic news of Artur Waley and of some scripts that he sends from various weeklies. Porteus also writes of his own translations from various languages and the methods he uses.

Letter from Hugh Porteus to Angus Graham to reply to Graham's letter. He writes of his review of Graham's Penguin book, Poems of the Late T'ang. He also writes about T.S. Eliot's reaction to the article and that he had hoped to provoke a reaction from William Empson. He comments on other translations of the poems, in particular Robert Payne's anthology of The White Pony. Porteus sends some of his own translations.