NORRIS LESLIE: (1921-2006)

NORRIS LESLIE: (1921-2006) Welsh poet and short story writer. T.L.S., Leslie Norris, one page, 4to, Aldingbourne, Chichester, Sussex, 17th August 1967, to [Elinor] Kane, Copy Editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Norris returns the proofs of his two poems Winter Song and Drummer Evans and continues to remark ´The first is absolutely perfect, but I have marked one error in The Drummer; as you will see the fresh stanza should begin at "Because I knew that I would never make..." - that is, line 30, not line 31......Of course, if you have to arrange it as you have in the proof, because of page-length or something, I don´t mind at all´ and concluding ´Similarly, I have no objection to your changing "Evans´s" to Evans´ on the two places you have marked. Welsh English is not always the same as English, and a small Welsh boy would say "Evans´s" ´. Together with a typescript copy of Winter Song bearing a few pencil annotations in the hand of an editor to the margin, and a galley proof (stamped Uncorrected Author´s Proof) of the same poem, prepared ahead of publication in The Atlantic Monthly, signed by Morris at the foot, indicating his approval, and dated 16th August 1967 in his hand. Some light creasing and minor age toning, G, 3