Items (52 total)
- Tags: Desert War
Letter dated 9 November 1942: draft of poem 'Orchids'
Manuscript letter written after the battle of Al Alamein including a draft of the poem 'Orchids/Song in the Desert' and references to the battle and the retreat of the Germans and Italians.
Letter dated 9 December 1942
Manuscript letter including references to the battle of El Alamein, the life in the desert, birds, his finances, banks, hotels and Cairo. Also discussing good books including mentions of James Elroy Flecker, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, 'A…
Letter dated 6 February 1943
Manuscript letter from Tripoli including the story of an Italian family, from Sicily, who had moved in Libya in 1912, after the Italo-Turkish war. The narration provides an insight in the recent history of the Libyan colony and in the current war as…
Letter dated 4 March 1943
Manuscript letter mentioning the structure of the poem 'Soldier's Prayer', the desert, Suez and the river Nile.
Letter dated 31 December 1942: draft of poems 'Soldiers' Prayer' and 'For Alemein [Alamein]'
Manuscript letter including drafts of the poems 'Soldiers' Prayer' and 'For Alemein' and references to the life in the desert with the army.
Letter dated 30 April 1943
Manuscript letter mentioning life in the army in Tunisia, the North African war, Tunis and ancient Carthage, Jerusalem, the film 'Desert Victory' by Boulting and the Bishop's Stortford's cinema, African birds.
Letter dated 29 January 1943
Manuscript letter from Tripoli including references to his experience, an ordered list of the poems sent, a small sketch. Also mentioning helping an Italian family living in the city and local street sellers.
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Letter dated 29 August 1942
Manuscript letter including references to everyday life in the army camps and three South African coins. Also mentioning receiving a cable or cablegram with news of his daughter's birth and wandering how the baby looks like.
Letter dated 28 September 1942
Manuscript letter including references to everyday life in the army, including meals, flies, in the desert near Cairo and Alexandria.
Letter dated 28 October 1942: draft of poem 'Tel El Eisa'
Manuscript letter including a draft of the poem 'Tel El Eisa' and references to life in the desert near El Alamein and the battle field. Also mentioning the publication of some of his work in the 'Daily Telegraph'.
Letter dated 21 March 1943
Manuscript letter discussing about the poems 'Yone May', 'For Alemein [Alamein]', 'Orchids', 'Sand' and including references to Capetown, Tripoli and a scheme including Italian speaking interpreters, Churchill, jobs options after the end of the war,…
Letter dated 21 February 1943
Manuscript letter from Tripoli mentioning the poem 'Soldier's Prayer', the difficulty to express in writing how it feels like being a soldier, their alienation and homesickness.
Letter dated 21 August 1942
Manuscript letter including references to everyday life in the army training camps in the desert, flies, heat, lack of privacy and then life in the local villages, Cairo, a military parade for Wiston Churchill and a sketch.
Letter dated 20 January 1943: draft of poem 'Leptis Magna'
Manuscript letter including a draft of the poem 'Leptis Magna', references to the journey through the desert along the Lybian coast up to Leptis Magna and the arrival to Tripoli, deliveries and mail. Also including some literary discussion of poetry,…
Letter dated 19 November 1942
Manuscript letter including references to the life in the desert, the Sahara desert, with flies and dust storms and Benghazi, Libya.
Letter dated 19 December 1942
Manuscript letter including references to the life in the desert with the army, Libya, Alexandria, supplies and postal service and Cape Town.
Letter dated 18 October 1942
Manuscript letter including references to everyday life during leave in Alexandria and his description of the city.
Letter dated 16 April 1943
Manuscript letter mentioning life in the desert, an imminent battle, Misurata, and bee-eaters.
Letter dated 14-15 September 1942
Manuscript letter including references to everyday life in the army camps and the difficulty of describing it to people in England, the desert near Cairo and dust storms. Also mentioning the regret of missing out the early time with his newly born…
Letter dated 14 November 1942
Manuscript letter from the desert including references to the war news and reports of battles and life in the desert. Also discussing his poetry and the poems 'Soldiers' Prayer' and 'Orchids'.