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Transcripts of 120 letters of the poet John Jarmain to his wife Beryl, with whom he regularly corresponded after travelling to North Africa and South Italy during the Second World War. The letters are dated from 17 June 1942 to 04 November 1943.…

Ronald Duncan's writing hut as it was in July 2017. Taken by the Project Archivist for the Ronald Duncan collection on a visit to Welcombe.

Colour photograph showing Rose Marie Duncan seated outside Gothic House with a cane.

[This may not even be an animal]

[This is a free-swimming “sea-lily” (Crinoidea), probably Antedon. The weed seems to be a young Laminaria frond.]

[Fresh water bryozoan, with pictures of larval stages and ‘statoblasts’: disc-like resting stages from which new individuals develop.]

[Almost certainly Plumatella repens (Linnaeus, 1758).]

[Only skeletal material is visible; the zooids are presumably retracted.]

[This appears to be three views of a Rossia, probably R. macrosoma, in different stages of colour change.]