CAUSLEY CHARLES: (1917-2003)

CAUSLEY CHARLES: (1917-2003) English poet. T.L.S., Charles Causley, with five lines of holograph text, two pages, 8vo, Launceston, Cornwall, 18th June 1974, to David Godine. Causley thanks his correspondent for their ´marvellously exciting letter about the Collected Poems´ and continues to remark ´I´m delighted to know you will be doing them, and the splendid catalogue you sent I´ve been carrying round with me ever since, and practically know it by heart. You´ve certainly done some wonderful books - confidence has been inspired (not that I ever doubted it for a second) that you´ll do a terrific job of production´ further discussing the possibility of woodcut illustrations and mentioning the artists David Gentleman, Michael McCurdy ( ´tremendously impressive´) and Gillian Tyler, and also writing of other work and poets, ´I wrote a 3-mile letter on Sunday with a lot of textual corrections (punctuation mostly - we´re trying to unify the mode of punctuation, means of expressing speech etc. throughout the collection). then drove to the coast & spent the evening with an old friend - John Betjeman - who was (a) gloomily going thro the galleys of his new collection (it´s good), & (b) Very interested in the Godine Causley. Encouraging!´. Together with a typed manuscript, unsigned, of Causley´s introduction to Those First Affections edited by Timothy Rogers, five pages (plus title page), folio, Launceston, Cornwall, n.d. (1979), with a few holograph additions, corrections and deletions. VG, 2