| Description | 1. Notebook with blue paper covers, containing ink ms. poems
1/1. 'Maya', dated 1934, in French
1/2. Untitled, beginning, 'Mon oiseau de l'inutile pourquoi...', Oct. 1935 (draft, with corrections)
1/3. 'Half born', Feb. 1936 (with corrections and drawing by Roland Penrose of woman with leaves around body)
1/4. Untitled, beginning, 'A sea-cow breathed from the south, blue and white...', Jan. 1936
1/5. 'Ballet Metalique' or 'The Blind Man's Stick', Jan. 1936
Also in the notebook: pencil sketch by Roland Penrose (shapes) and circular diagrams and charts by Roland Penrose (astrology or game?) - loose, 1p.
2. Draft ms. of 'Half born', n.d., pencil, 1p. (on Rossmore Court stationery); sketch by Roland Penrose at end of side 2 |