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"Defeat" (ts/ms)
"Keats" (ts/ms)
"Pregnancy" (ts/ms)
Unto the hills alone will I sing my songs... (ts/ms)
"Simile" (ts/ms)
"Sleep" (ts/ms)
"Leaves" (ts/ms)
"To M.F." (ts/ms)
"After Christmas" (ts)
"Aliens" (ts)
"Apology: By a Philanderer" (ts)
Even to that grey house I must travel... (ts)
"The Game" (ts)
"The Gulf" (ts)
"Innocence" (ts)
"I Wish Something Strange Would Happen" (ts)
"Light and Shadow" (ts)
"A Long Time" (ts)
"Miriam" (ts)
"Philanderer" (ts)
"Remorse" (ts)
"Song" (ts)

Things hurt, quite suddenly,… (ts)
"The Snare" (ts/ms)
"Puritan" (ts)
"Sonnet II" (ts)
"Of Eustacia, Who Drowned Herself" (ts)
"Masquerade" (ts)
"Legend" (ts)
"Pastoral (Prince Edward Island)" (ts)
I shall be afraid of mountains… (ts)
"Refuge" (ts)
"Impression" (ts)
"The Lake" (ts)
This defeating power of life… (ts)
"Emergence" (ts)
"The Sitter" (ts)
"Reality" (ts)
"Cinquain" (ts)
"Snow Burial" (ts)
"Interpretation" (ts)
"A Dream" (ts)
"Sonnet III" (ts)
"Sonnet IV" (ts)
"Song" (ts)
"Impossibility" (ts)
"Epistle" (ts)
"Ironic Night" (ts)
Tenacious faith… (ts)
"Pioneer" (ts)
"Vandal" (ts)
"The Lover" (ts)
"Green Rain" (ts)
"Romanticism" (ts)
Sun through the winter's dust… (ts)
"Symbols" (ts)
"A Bystander at Golgotha" (ts)
"The Choice" (ts)
"To the Last Pioneer" (ts)
He often stood and watched how the snow fell;… (ts)
"Song to Myself" (ts)
"Snare" (ts)
"Going to Sleep" (ts)
"Emily Dickinson" (ts)
How many of us have learned, with Orpheus... (ts)
The wind was busy for a moment… (ts)
I have not found… (ts/ms)
"A Confidence" (ts)
"Enchantment" (ts)
Capture the rose and let it die… (ts)
Let this suffice / Your bitterness… (ts)
The earth is my lover… (ts)
However fast I run… (ts)
There was a beating of air,… (ts)
"Testament" (ts)
"Of Seasons" (ts)
"Aliens" (ts)
Now the dark sky is islanded… (ts)
"The Seeker" (ts)
"The Clearing" (ts/ms)
"Haunted House" (ts/ms)
Woman and instrument become one song… (ts)
"Journey" (ts)
"Summer" (ts)
"Spring" (ts)
Out of my dreams… (ts)
I am abandoned, who once was proud,… (ts)
As children, beauty was imperative,… (ts/ms)
"September" (ts)
"Epitaph" (ts)
"September Rain" (ts)
"Personalities" (ts)
Because of this and this---… (ts)
"Sesame" (ts)
"Youth" (ts/ms)
If I should die this night… (ts)
"The Stranger" (ts)
This sing with joy… (ts)
"Retreat" (ts)
"Adventure" (ts)

Again the fever; at last to see you!... (ts/ms)
"Apology for Amelia" (ts/ms)
Dark was we led each other, who yet sought… (ts/ms)
Dear. I felt you. You lay still… (ts/ms)
I am the vine that keeps you, silent tree… (ts/ms)
I cannot weep---… (ts/ms)
I've come to a nice place, suddenly---… (ts)
The lilacs are in bloom… (ts)
Little lover, bless you;… (ts/ms)
Love has come back now like a cloud… (ts/ms)
The old crow who sits in that elm tree… (ts/ms)
Out on the rock I lay, with the sun… (ts/ms)
"Parrot of the Night" (ts/ms)
So many friends… (ts)
"Sunday Morning" (ts/ms)
Take such delight beyond my eyes… (ts)
The terrible reality of mind---… (ts/ms)
These things are patient out of time… (ts/ms)
"We in the Maze" (ts/ms)
What is there to say of you, white flower… (ts/ms)
Your gentleness awakes my heart… (ts/ms)

If I have blundered, that's because growing up… (ts/ms)
Take a walk through the city, believe me… (ts/ms)
Lenin, I hear your voice… (ts/ms)
"Montreal -- 1933" (ts/ms)

"Twenty Years After" (ts/ms)
Give us rain in April; for rain is harsh… (ts/ms)
The boss was a friend of mine… (ts/ms)
"Canada to the Soviet Union" (ts/ms)
"I Am Ahead of You" (ts/ms)
I'm in a tight place, God… (ts/ms)
I can be a vegabond and still… (ts)
I sit and hammer melodies… (ts/ms)
In the beginning was the word… (ts/ms)
The little hearts still say: "Tomorrow spring,… (ts/ms)
"Man Asleep" (ts/ms)
A sagging woman, sagging breasts… (ts/ms)
"A Song for Parents" (ts/ms)
"They Speak to the Enemy" (ts)
"Walls" (ts/ms)
We are the ones without a stone… (ts/ms)

"I Never Hear" (ts/ms)
"Dominion Day at Regina" (ts(2))
"Resurgence" (ts)
"Deep Cove: Vancouver" (ts/ms)
"Comrade" (ts)
Even although the skimpy relief investigator… (ts/ms)
"In Preparation" (ts(2))
"The Second Journey (From a Train, at Night)" (ts(2))

"Annie Charlotte Dalton" (ts/ms)
"An English Bay" (ts/ms(2))
"Ghost Town" (ts(2))
I have no special book of songs for you… (ts/ms)
"The Mother" (ts/ms)
O shaggy city, sprawling from the hills… (ts/ms)
"A Song for Vancouver" (ts/ms)
"SOS" (ts(2)/ms)
"Spain" (ts/ms)
Turn the view outward, outswept, seaward… (ts/ms)
"Wind on the Heath" (ts)

"War" (ts(2)/ms)
"Surrealism" (ts/ms)
"Sing!" (ts/ms)
"The Lizard" (ts/ms)
And life goes on. And here… (ts)
And love, the beauty and the brunt of it… (ts/ms)
"Catalonia" (ts(2)/ms)
"A Clearing (Frontier)" (ts)
"Of Freedom" / "Unto the Hills" (ts/ms)
O hold me closely in your arms, beloved comrade… (ts/ms)
"Prelude for Spring" (ts)
"We Are Alone" (ts)
"Words Before Battle" (ts(2))

I cannot weep again, although the tears… (ts/ms)
Our slow spring tempers the blood… (ts(2))
You would not know these hands, for they were poised… (ts/ms)
Terrible to be a child, you said, so unaware… (ts/ms)
"Letter to a Friend" / "A Letter to Magaret" (ts(4))
"Play School" / "Art Class" (ts/ms)
Old woman now… (ts/ms)
"The Refugees" (ts)
"Serenade for Strings" / "Midnight Concerto" (ts(4))
"Song of the Nations" (ts)

"Sonnets for a Soldier" (ts/ms)
"Letter from Canada" (ts)
"Railway Station" (ts(2))
"V-J Day" (ts/ms)
"In Time of War" (ts)

"December" (ts)
"Unwritten Letter" (ts)

"Arms and the People" / "Chorale" (ts(3))
"Ariel" (ts)
"Children's Camp" / "Excursion" (ts(4)/ms)
"Song" (ts)
"Song" (ts(3))
"The Three Emilys" (ts(2))

"Affair and End" (ts/ms)
"On His Sixteenth Birthday" (ts)
"Loss" (ts)
"On Looking into Henry Moore" (ts/ms)

"The Academicals" [Series of four poems] (ts(2))
"The Professor as Medium" (ts(2))
"The Professor as Magician" (ts(2)/ms(3))
"The Professor as Twins" (ts(2))
"Egg and Square" (ts(2)/ms)

"Framed" (ts/ms(2))
"Song for the New Year" (ts/ms)

"The Voyage Out" (ts(6)/ms)
"In the Ward" (ts/ms)
"Quaker Meeting" (ts(2)/ms)
"Sonnet for the Times" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"Russel Square: Winter" / "In the Park" (ts(4)/ms)

"Ballet of Squares" [includes poems "Fitzroy" (ts(2)); "Guy Fawkes Night" (ts(3)); "November Eleventh" (ts(2)); "Trafalgar" (ts(3))]
"The Coil" (ts/ms)
"Conversations" (ts(2))
"One, Two, Three" (ts)
"The Dismembered Poem" (ts(3))
"The Emperor's Circus" (ts(5))
"Eurydice" (ts(2))
"From the Shell" (ts(3))
"Girl" (ts/ms)
"A Long Night's Journey" (ts(3))
"The Sky Watchers" / "Aurora Borealis" (ts(4))
"Sonnet" (ts)
"Surgery" (ts(2))

"The Absences" (ts(3))
"Cote d'Azur" (ts(3)/ms)
"Words for our Time" (ts(2)/ms)
"Persephone" (ts(2)/ms)
"Mothering Sunday" (ts(2)/ms)
"Picasso, Sketching" / "Picasso's eye" / "Picasso's 'I'" / "The Clowning Act" (ts(8)/ms)
"Gardening" (ts/ms)
"Song" (ts/ms)
"Window" (ts/ms)
"Invocation" (ts(2)/ms)

"For a Young Poet" / "For Gwendolyn" (ts(7)/ms)
How often shall we move, and moving be… (ts/ms)
I must apologize:… (ts/ms)
In the still centre of this painting… (ts)
"It's Catching" (ts/ms)
"Jet Age" (ts/ms)
"Labour Peer" (ts(2)/ms)
"Living Room" (ts(2))
"Neither-nor" (ts(2)/ms)

"Notes from a Journey" [series of five poems]
"Fire" (ts/ms)
"Astronauts" (ts/ms)
"Night Light" (ts/ms)
Counting ahead… (ts/ms)
"The Attachments" (ts/ms)

"Zambia" [Series of nine poems]
"Initiation" (ts(3))
"U.N.I.P. Meeting" (ts(3))
"Prophet" (ts(3))
"Cockcrow" (ts(3))
"Christening" (ts(3))
"The Wild Fig Tree" (ts(3))
"Village" (ts(6))
"Funeral" (ts(3))
"Wedding" / "Finale" (ts(3))
[Unused portions of "Zambia"]:
"Before Independence" (ts/ms)
"The Prophetess" (ts/ms(2))
I boughed under the trees… (ts)
O wild fig tree… (ts/ms(2))
"Zambian Wedding" (ts/ms)

"Another Journey" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Balance" (ts/ms(2))
The blind man turns… (ts(3)/ms)
"Cote d'Azur" / "The Skin Divers" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Elms" (ts/ms)
In my dream room… (ts)
"Library" (ts/ms)
"The Notations of Love" / "For Richer, or Poorer" (ts(5)/ms)
"Poet and Critic (For Ray Souster)" / "Critic" (ts(2)/ms)
"Reaching Out" (ts/ms)
The record of all our nights… (ts)
"Time" (ts(2)/ms)
"Truths" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Unquiet Bed" (ts(4)/ms)
"Variations on an Elizabethan Theme" / "Melody on an Old Air" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Witch" (ts)

"The Woman with Small Hands" (ts(4)/ms)
"Iconoclast" (ts/ms)
"Another Sickness" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Game" / "Spring Happenings" (ts(3)/ms)
"Fundy" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"Centennial People" (ts(3)/ms)
"At Birney's (June 4, 1967 -- Before the Israeli-Arab Conflict)" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Labyrinth" (ts)
"Birthday" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Cave" (ts(7)/ms/p)
Storm rise... (ts/ms)
"Parenthood" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"Rachel Rachel" / "A Dream" (ts(8)/ms)
"Instructions" (ts/ms)
"Waking" (ts(2)/ms)

"Auguries" / "Journey by Steel" / "Journey by Night" (ts(9)/ms)
"The Lovers" / "Rhythms" (ts/ms)
"Birdwatching" (ts(5)/ms)
"The Metal and the Flower" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"The Uninvited" (ts(7)/ms)
"Erosion" (ts(2)/ms)
"Dream" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Outsider" (ts(2)/ms)
"Aliens All" (ts(2)/ms)
"Remembering New Jersey: 1935" / "U.S.A. 1935" (ts(2)/ms)
Never but once before… (ts/ms)
"The Phone-in" (ts(4)/ms)
"Imprints" (ts(5)/ms)

"Queen's Park (For Desmond on his Birthday)" (ts(2)/ms)
"Mother Song" (ts(5)/ms)
"Catechism" (ts(2)/ms)
"Poem" / "Another Spring" (ts(12)/ms)
"An Evening with Clark" (ts)
"Travel Maybe" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Good Neighbour" (ts/ms)
"Victoria's Bells on Sunday Morning (For Diane)" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Operation" (ts(5)/ms)
"Post-operative Instructions" (ts/ms)
"The Holly and the Ivy" (ts(2)/ms)
"Sonnet" / "Cry" (ts(4)/ms)
Tied in the knot of love… (ts(2)/ms)
"The Game" (ts/ms)
"The Feminist" (ts(2)/ms)

"At Porpoise Bay" (ts(2)/ms)
"Edmonton at Night" (ts(6)/ms)
The protestants and puritans were right:… (ts(3)/ms)
"The Sign" (ts(6)/ms)

"The Alphabet of Sleep" (ts(2)/ms)
"Breathing" (ts)
"Cassandra" (ts(2)/ms)
"Flight of the Tenses" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"The Garden of Silence" / "Victoria "Garden of Truth"" (ts(2)/ms)
"Gathering Oysters" (ts(3)/ms)
"Good Friday" (ts)
"Grandmother" (ts(2)/ms/p)
"How come?" (ts/ms(2))
"Hurricane Beth and the Bertha Army Worm and All That" (ts(2)/ms)
"I Get Restless" (ts/ms)
"Indian Summer: North Winnipeg" (ts(2)/ms)
"Last Letter" (ts(2))
"Mathematics" (ts)
"Old Soldier" (ts(6)/ms)
"Parks Department" (ts)
"Song" (ts)
"Thumbing a Ride" (ts(5)/ms/p)
"Time and Mrs MacNair" (ts/ms/p)
"To be Blind" (ts(5)/ms(2))
"Walking in the Dark (For Randal)" (ms)
"Whitepiece" (ts(2))
"Why are we Here (For Elizabeth Brewster)" (ts(3)/ms)

"For the New Year" (ts(2)/ms)
"Windows" (ts(6)/ms)
"Seagulls" (ts(2)/ms)
"Envoi" (ts/ms)
"The Illness" (ts/ms)
"Gull" (ts(3)/ms)
"Cry" / "A Bed of Roses" (ts(2)/ms)
"So?" (ts(2)/ms)
"Widow" (ts(2)/ms)
"Ice Age (For Marcy and Marvin)" (ts(2)/ms)
"My Loves" (ts(2)/ms)
"Empathies" (ms(2))
"Martha" (ts/ms)
"The Position" (ts/ms)
"Definition" (ts/ms)
"Postscript" (ts/ms)
"Love Apples" (ts/ms(2))
"A Gentle Man" (ts/ms)
"The Superiority of Flight" (ts/ms)
"Some Dreams" (ts/ms)

This file contains a full draft of Day and Night.
Draft is typescript with some handwritten revisions and notes.

This file contains a full draft of Selected Poems, 1926-1956.
Draft is typescript with some handwritten revisions and notes.

This file contains a partial author's proof of The Unquiet Bed.
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"Enmeshed" (ts/ms)
"Song of a Philanderer" (ts/ms)
To-day we drove out to Clarkson... (ts/ms)
"Mad Wind" (ts/ms)
Capture me the wind,... (ts/ms)
"The Gypsy" (ts/ms)
"Toronto" (ts/ms)

"Circular Letter" (ts/ms)
"A Confidence" (ts/ms)
"Fantastic Parable" (ts/ms)
Inarticulate... (ts/ms)
It is my grief... (ts/ms)
"Light: A Sonnet" (ts/ms)
Never can I entrust myself to darkness... (ts/ms)
Not adamantine bound... (ts/ms)
"Nymph Song" (ts/ms)
Something is coming to be born... (ts/ms)
This April has slowed up; unkind and cold... (ts/ms)
Whether it be autumn or spring... (ts/ms)

"Legend" (ts/ms)
"The Prisoner" (ts/ms)
"Fear" (ts/ms)
There is no one in the house but I… (ts/ms)
"Episode" (ts/ms)
Who can paint the sun… (ts/ms)
"Decision" (ts/ms)
Where once the road went, see not the willows… (ts/ms)
Your cry---was it your cry?... (ts)
"October" (ts/ms)
Is it inconstancy… (ts/ms)
All night I heard the calling… (ts/ms)

"Sleeping Beauty" (ts/ms(2))
Summer shall break… (ts/ms)
"Old Man Dozing" (ts/ms)
"Adventurer (Explorer)" (ts/ms)
What strange thing plunges us into happiness,… (ts/ms)
The moment that I missed… (ts/ms)
"From Shadow to Shadow" (ts/ms)
"Spleen" (ts/ms)
"Malice of Wind" (ts/ms)
My heart is a bird… (ts/ms)
What should I know of tears... (ts/ms)
Again, high singer, you are here… (ts/ms)
"Canada: Invocation" (ts/ms)
I remember you, March, with your rough winds… (ts/ms)
I am impelled by secret joy… (ts/ms)
"Hermit" (ts/ms)
"For Shelly and His Singing Companions" / "Signpost" (ts/ms)
"Milton" (ts/ms)
"Confessional" (ts/ms)
"Greece -- Before 1940" (ts/ms)
"Invocation" (ts/ms)
"Song for the Multitude" (ts/ms)
"Song" (ts/ms(2))
We have forgotten the dust… (ts/ms)
"Growing Up" (ts/ms)
What cloud was it… (ts/ms)
"Alien" (ts/ms)
"There Was One Day" (ts/ms)
Is there no more furtherance of this?... (ts/ms)
"The Accident" (ts/ms)
I never know much about silence… (ts/ms)
Let me beware of joy…(ts/ms)
There was no place to lay my head… (ts/ms)
If I awake in the night… (ts/ms)
"Old Man" (ts/ms)
"Nocturne" (ts/ms)
"Difference" (ts/ms)
"Doubt" (ts/ms)
Some breath of wind form a topmost bough… (ts/ms)

"Advice to an Over-fond Lover" (ts/ms)
"Lonely Paradise" (ts)
"The Angel" (ts)
"Mask" (ts)
My heart is a golden fruit… (ts/ms)
"The Return" (ts)
The room I entered suddenly… (ts/ms)
So much rain… (ts/ms)
"Sympathy" (ts)
"The Undesired" (ts)
I think I never will regret… (ts/ms)
"Where is it?" (ts/ms)
A woman veiled walked by me in my dream… (ts/ms)

"Habit" (ts)
"Stung" (ts)
"Absence" (ts/ms)
"Pioneer" (ts/ms(2))
"Crossroads" (ts)
"Street Lamp" (ts/ms)
"Dust" (ts)
"Guest" (ts/ms)
What virtue is there in the night… (ts/ms)
"Retrospect" (ts/ms)
"Memory" (ts)
"I Was Not Indiscreet" (ts)
"Morning Song" (ts)
"For N.E.W." (ts)
"In the South" (ts)
"Sun" (ts/ms)
"I Dreamed at First" (ts/ms)
"Sea Flowers" (ts/ms)
"Hibernate" (ts/ms)
"Release" (ts)
If we rest motionless as any star,… (ts)
"Discovery" (ts)
Not in the country did I hear… (ts/ms)
"I Saw My Thought" (ts/ms)
"Surfeit" (ts)
"Discovery" (ts)
"Morning" (ts)
"Gardening" (ts)
"Echo (Edge of the World)" (ts/ms)
"Farewell I" (ts)
"Farewell II" (ts)
I know not death, although… (ts)
"Constancy" (ts)
"Sanctuary" (ts)
Glittering shadows of leaves flicker… (ts/ms)
"Haunted" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"In the Wood" (ts/ms)
"Nothing Can Change My Heart" (ts/ms)
"Repulse" (ts)
I am not ashamed of loving you... (ts)
"I hate now, being alone"… (ts/ms)
"If" (ts/ms)
"If Looking Were Saying" (ts/ms)

"Spring Song" (ts(2)/ms)
He shot a singing bird… (ts)
"Journey" (ts)
"Reiteration" (ts)
Strange girl, wanting… (ts/ms(2))
"The Listener" (ts/ms)
"Protest" (ts/ms)
Earth was her vagrancies of time and mood… (ts/ms)
It is too late to recall / The word unspoken… (ts/ms)
"Another Spring" (ts/ms)
Rain, let me your creature be… (ts(2)/ms)
When in despair--- the dark being waywardness… (ts)
I think I have not learned… (ts)
And I shall stand like autumn in the air… (ts)
To stand in sunlight is an easy thing… (ts)
You are my sun; not fire that strikes and sears… (ts)
"Always" (ts)
Once your voice sounded me… (ts)
My longing was a chain so holding me… (ts)
More lovely than you know… (ts)
Love me in the house, not in the wood,… (ts)
"Still-life" (ts)
I cannot sing; the song has gone… (ts)
Amazement!…. (ts)
Don't criticize me while the blood is hot… (ts)
The wind has broken in pieces again me… (ts)
The mirage of your love… (ts)
Shape me to your will… (ts)
Shake off the hours like petals, dream… (ts)
Let not our love grow mildewed, out of use… (ts)
"Jeune Menage" (ts)
"Dialogue" (ts)
"The Kiss" (ts)
"Flowers he feeds on, where no voice in heard" (ts)
I am merry; till I lie alone…(ts)
It's true, philosophies… (ts)
Shepherd of my delight… (ts)
"Primavera" (ts)

"Montreal" (ts/ms)
"Testament" (ts/ms)
Do you see them running? -- Who? -- The people… (ts/ms)
"The Fallow Mind" (ts)
"An Immigrant (Nick Zynchuk)" (ts/ms)
"Repeal" (ts)

I snatched a day from time's onrush… (ts/ms)
The rowen berries bunched in red grape clusters… (ts/ms)
"At the Beach" (ts/ms)
"Board Meeting" (ts)
"The Child Looks Out" (ts(2)/ms)
The excitement of evening, bare belief… (ts)
"Lorca" (ts(3)/ms)
"Lullaby 1938" (ts)
"The Wife" (ts/ms)

"Boy" (ts/ms)
For in these cities woman cannot nurse;… (ts/ms)
Point Counterpoint" (ts/ms)
"West Coast" (ts/ms(2))
When the house snaps out its lights… (ts)
Without this benefit, this dark… (ts)
The cannot have must contradict… (ts/ms)

"F.D.R." (ts/ms)
Dust will settle; silence be… (ts/ms)
"Motif for a Mural" / "Remembrance Day 1945"(ts(2)/ms)
"For Paul Robeson: Playing Othello" (ts(3))
"Contact" (ts)
"Ferry Trip" (ts(3))
"Lament (For J.F.B.L.)" (ts/ms)
Something took place--- Did you hear it?... (ts)

"London Revisited (1946)" (ts(2))
"Lullaby II" (ts)
"Lullaby I" (ts)
"Of Neighbours" (ts/ms)
"Song and Solitude" [a dramatic poem for radio] (ts(3))
"Okanagan Pictures" (n)
"Journey by Train" (ts(3)/ms)
"Pastoral" / "Ontario Story" (ts(2))
"Prairie Town" (ts/ms)
Rain is mother… (ts/ms)
Reared in snow she was… (ts/ms)

"Birthday" (ts(3)/ms)
"Aunt Helen" (ts/ms)
"The Child on Steps" (ts(3)/ms)
"On Re-reading a Letter" (ts(3))

"Poet" (ts(2))
"Points of View" (ts)
"Second Coming" / "Questions" (ts(5)/ms)
"Sour Poem (For Malcolm Lowry)" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Still Centre" / "On Hearing a Sonnet" (ts/ms)
This old house creaks… (ts/ms)
"Toilette" (ts/ms)
"Weather Report" (ts(2))
"Without Benefit of Tape" (ts(8)/ms/p)
"Woman Waylaid" / "Fork Lake" (ts(8)/ms)
"Woman Waylaid" / "Leda again" (ts(2))
"The Yoke (For DCM)" (ts(3)/ms)

"From Spanish Banks" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Transfer" (ts/ms)
"Sun Fast" (ts(2)/ms)
"Thinking of you" (ts/ms)
"Return to a Birthplace" / "Roots" (ts(8)/ms(2))
"Moving out" (ts(3)/ms(2))
"Widow" (ts/ms)
"Eve" (ts(4)/ms)
"Messages" (ts(2)/ms)
"Mercy Living" (ts/ms)
"Perceptions" (ts/ms)
"F.R.L." (ts/ms)
"The Journey East" / "Traffic Island" (ts(6)/ms)
"Autumn 1966" (ts/ms)
"Autumn" (ts/ms)
"Psalm" (ts(3))
"A Book of Charms" (ts/ms)
"The Fog Horn" (ts/ms)
"New Song" (ts(9)/ms(3))
"Hello" (ts(2)/ms)
"De-evolution" (ts(5)/ms)

"McCluhan Criticized" (ts/ms)
"Weather Forecast" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"Interior Landscape (For Roy Kiyooka)" (ts(3)/ms(2))
"The Time Child" (ts(3)/ms)
"Intermedia" (ts(6)/ms)
"Wringso Write" (ts(5)/ms)
"The Hallowe'ens" (ts/ms)
"Respice Ad Finem" / "Look to the End" (ts(4)/ms)
"Explosives" (ts(3)/ms)
"Old Woman Waiting" (ts/ms)
"Where I Usually Sit" (ts(4)/ms)

"Disasters of the Sun" [Series of seven poems]
"Sky Apartment" (ts(2))
"For Tom Ezzy" (ts/ms)
"Flight 403" (ts(2))
"Discards" (ts(2)/ms)
During the last heat wave… (ts)
Keep out… (ts)
Connect me underground… (ts(3))

"Three Mirror Poems" [series of three poems] (ts/p)
"Schizoid" (ts/ms)
When she goes to the movies… (ts/ms)
"A Letter" (ts(7)/ms)

"Jay" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Merger" (ts(2)/ms)
"Aubade" (ts(2)/ms)
"Dawn" (ts(2)/ms)
"Morning Rituals" / "Waking" / "Between Laughter and Tears" / "Old Woman" (ts/ms)
"Morning Rituals" / "Acupuncture" (ts/ms)
"Blessing" / "White Ceiling" / "Window" (ts/ms)
"Evensong" / "Evening Prayers" / "Ceremony for Desdemona" / "Night Song for Desdemona" (ts(3)/ms)
"Epiphany" / "Of Stress" (ts(2)/ms)
"Down Beat" (ts(2)/ms)
"Semantics: (Remembering Mazo)" (ts/ms)
Fresh as that pearl-yellow… (ts/ms)
"The Old Bawd" / "The Courtesan" (ts(2)/ms)
"Small Dialogue with Icarus" / "Icarus" (ts/ms)
"For Louis Frank: Nootka" / "News from Nookta (For Louis Frank, Ahausit)" / "News at the End of the War" (ts(2)/ms/p)

"Aging" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"Baby Sitter as Hypnotist" (ts/ms(2))
"The Cabbage" (ts/ms)
"Canadian Saga (For Gary Geddes)" (ts/ms)
"The High" (ts/ms)
"Klein" (ts(2)/ms)
"Legends" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"Looking Across Juan de Fuca Strait" (ts(2)/ms)
"One-way Conversation" / "The Man with the Small Penis" (ts(2)/ms)
"Recipe for a Young Poet" (ts)
"Red River" (ts)
"The Survivor" (ts(2))
"Winnipeg: 1905" (ts/ms)

"Women's Lib" (ts/ms)
"Surfaces" (ts(2)/ms)
"Halleluia" (ts/ms)
"The Hibernation" (ts)
"The Law of the Sea (Seagull and Two Crows)" (ts(2)/ms)
"Prison Camp" (ts)
"Unmusical Bird (Blue Heron)" (ts/ms)

This file contains 3 letters and a review list:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 7 November 1949.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 1 December 1949.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 23 December 1949 (review list for 'The Collected Poems of Raymond Knister' attached).

This file contains 4 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 28 January 1953.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 19 June 1953.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 2 July 1953.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 8 September 1953.

This file contains 5 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 23 May 1956.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 25 August 1956.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 13 September 1956.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 17 October 1956.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 12 November 1956.

This file contains 4 letters and an advertisement:
Advertisement for 'Selected Poems of Dorothy Livesay, 1926-1956' from Ryerson Press.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 26 February 1957.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 4 April 1957.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 15 April 1957.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 1 May 1957.

This file contains 8 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 20 April 1959 (and photocopy of same letter).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by M.(?) Daly) dated 30 April 1959.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 22 May 1959.
Letter fro Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 27 April 1959.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by (?)) dated 19 May 1959.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 14 June 1959.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 19 June 1959.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 20 August 1959.

This file contains 4 letters:
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to the Royalties Dept. of Ryerson Press dated 4 June 1964.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by A.E. Herbert) dated 8 June 1964.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to the Editor of Ryerson Press dated 20 June 1964.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 14 July 1964.

This file contains a full second draft of The Unquiet Bed.
Draft is typescript with handwritten revisions and notes.

File consists of documentation and correspondence related to the description of and research on the Dorothy Livesay Fonds done in the 1970s. These records provide context on the acquisition and arrangement of Livesay's records.

"When Winter Comes" (ts)

"Fate" (ts)
"Midsummer Night" (ts/ms)
"Passer-by" (ts/ms)
"To an Ancient Maiden" (ts/ms)
"You are like Pan" (ts/ms)
"Song" (ts/ms)

"What a Pity!" (ts/ms)
"To a Forgotten Hermit" (ts/ms)
"Four winds" (ts/ms)
"Autumn Day" (ts/ms)
"The Hour" (ts/ms)
"Love" (ts)
"The Philosopher" (ts/ms)
"The Scarlet Handkerchief" (ts)
"A Country House in Town" (ts/ms)
"The Unfortunate Cricket" (ts)

"Melody" (ts)
"He Who is Blind" (ts)
"Desire" (ts)
"Prayer to the Four Corners" (ts)
"Quest" (ts)
"Impuissance" (ts)
"Treasure" (ts)
"Messages" (ts/ms)
"Conceit" (ts/ms)
"The Priest" (ts/ms)
"Prostitute" (ts)
"A Tale" (ts)
"Secret" (ts)
"Strophe" (ts)
"Landscape" (ts/ms)
"Caution" (ts)
"Monologue" (ts)
"Sympathy" (ts)
"Connoiseur" (ts)
"Wraith" (ts)
"A Thief in Heaven" (ts)
"Houses: A Contrast" (ts)
"Bridal" (ts/ms)
"The Godmother" (ts/ms)
"Finis" (ts)
"Adventure" (ts)
"Portrait" (ts)
"Wedding?" (ts)
"Shadow" (ts)
"Phantasy in May" (ts)
"Meditations of a Thief" (ts)
"Song" (ts)
"Out of Loveliness" (ts)
"Epicurean Lady" (ts)
"Blind Song" (ts)
Dawn is a sigh of wind… (ts)
"Two Songs" (ts)
"The Intimates" (ts)
"Silhouettes" (ts)
"Song for a Runner" (ts)
"Finale" (ts)
"Primitive" (ts)
"Chinese" (ts)
"Prelude: Chopin" (ts)
"Madrigal" (ts)
"Sudden Awakening" (ts/ms)
"Cinquain" (ts/ms)
"Widow-woman" (ts)
"Etching" (ts/ms)
"The Forsaken" (ts)
"Growth" (ts)
"The Gardener" (ts)
"Nostalgia" (ts)
"Hermit" (ts/ms)
"Explanation" (ts/ms)
If you think… (ts)
"Confession" (ts)
"Song for Departure" (ts)
"A Boy in Bronze" (ts)
"To One Dying" (ts)
"Boswell" (ts)
"Exile" (ts)
"Analysis" (m)
"Answer" (ts)
Never hesitate to say… (ts/ms)
"Defiance" (ts)
"Monition" (ts)
"Madonna" (ts)
"Interim (Recess)" (ts)
"Transcendence" (ts)
"Autumn" (ts)
"Unkind Hokkus" (ts)
"Clarity" (ts/ms)
"Cinquain" (ts)
"Song in Winter" (ts)
In arresting love… (ts)
"The Wife" (ts)
"Pilgrim" (ts)
"Advent" (ts)
"Memorials" (ts)
"Fire and Reason" (ts)
"The Untouched" (ts)
"Thief" (ts)
"Philosophy" (ts)
"Hokku" (ts)
Nothing to tear the heart… (ts)
"Epitaph" (ts)

"Age" (ts)
"The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestickmaker" (ts/ms)
"Enigmas" (ts)
"Fire" (ts)
"The Gift" (ts)
"Gifts" (ts)
Houses grow very tall in October… (ts/ms)
I chased my dream… (ts/ms)
I could lie here always… (ts/ms)
I fled words… (ts/ms)
Into slow amythyst October pales… (ts/ms)
Music is behind;… (ts/ms)
"Paint" (ts)
"Phantoms" (ts)
"A Prayer" (ts)
"The Return" (ts/ms)
Shy purple birds… (ts/ms)
Things I have been dreaming of this sober while… (ts/ms)
"Understanding" (ts/ms)

It is a thing I never shall have learned… (ts/ms)
How lovely now are the winds that lighten… (ts/ms)
Happiness I know is grass… (ts/ms)
"To All the Children (ts/ms)
Not of myself… (ts/ms)
"Archibald Lampman: Old and New Trinity" (ts/ms)
"Self-prophecy" (ts/ms)
In the early sunlight… (ts/ms)
"The Peril" (ts/ms)
Is it the field that I loved… (ts/ms)
Now let darkness come… (ts/ms)
Find laughter deep… (ts/ms)
"After Silence" (ts/ms)
"August" (ts/ms)
Feed the fire long… (ts/ms)
Men have sung how out of Eden's garden… [Fragment for the poem "Orpheus & Eurydice"] (ts/ms)
Fancies and phantoms of an older lover... [Fragment for the poem "Orpheus & Eurydice"] (ts/ms)
Three times a ship went, in a squall… [Fragment for the poem "Orpheus & Eurydice"] (ts/ms)
"She Justifies Herself" (ts/ms)
"Prelude" (ts/ms)
You would think spring were here… (ts/ms)
From anything in pain… (ts/ms)
No matter what befalls… (ts/ms)

"August" (ts)
Sometimes from night there comes disquietude… (ts/ms)
"City Wife" (ts/ms)
Down in the valley the yellowing leaves… (ts/ms)
"Experience" (ts/ms)
I have made enough songs… (ts/ms)
In puffs like blue smoke… (ts/ms)
"Legend" (ts)
On the beloved road… (ts/ms)
"Philosophy" (ts)
"Scarred" (ts)
"Song: I Would not Lose" (ts)
"Spinster's Retort" (ts/ms)
"Spring Dusk" (ts)
"To H.C.E." (ts/ms)
What things are mine… (ts/ms)
The whip-poor-whill is still to-night…. (ts/ms)
"Wind Song" (ts)
"Winter" (ts)
"The Witch" (ts)

"The Saviour" (ts/ms)
Creatures of night and day (dark and light)… (ts/ms)
"In a Norman Graveyard" (ts/ms)
What Lord beheld the rain… (ts/ms)
What old perfection covereth these hills… (ts/ms)
"Loss" (ts/ms)
"Lazarus" (ts/ms)
Yet still my ghost hung near and could not rise… (ts/ms)
You cannot force desire nor smother it… (ts/ms)
Bestir my bones... (ts/ms)
Suddenly the world is empty… (ts/ms)
Out of the forest, walls;… (ts/ms)
"Threshold" (ts)

"Struggle (A Mass Chant)" (ts)

"Case History" (ts)
"Elegy for Today" (ts)
"Song" / "From the Husk" (ts(2))

It's joy to see… (ts/ms)
"Stop a moment!" (ts/ms)
"Unemployed" (ts(2)/ms)
"Perspectives" (ts)
Blow my bugles, the time is ready… (ts)
"Yes!" / "Christmas Lullaby" (ts(2))
"Queen City" (ts)
Shaped like a bugle… (ts)
"Only fi' cents Buy a song"… (ts)

Give me the sinews, and the gusty glance… (ts/ms)
"Invitation to Silence" (ts/ms)
In what disguise… (ts/ms)
Speak through me, mountains,… (ts/ms)
Take me for the breath blown and eyes opened,… (ts/ms)
Those who can spring, barefooted to the icy floor… (ts/ms)
"Words for a Chorus" (ts/ms)

"Autumn" (ts)
"Frontier" (ts(2)/ms)
"Grouse Mountain" (ts/ms)
Highways we trod… (ts/ms)
"I, Challenger" (ts)
The long unquiet breath is over… (ts/ms)
"Riel" [Fragment] (ts/ms)
"Louis Riel" (ts)
"O Canada (After swallowing a New Canadian Anthology)" (ts/ms)
"Question" (ts)
"Scourge" (ts(4))
Small things move the heart to wonder… (ts/ms)
"The swimmer (The Anarchist)" (ts(4)/ms)
And supposing it was Beethoven ploughing his field… (ts/ms)
"Te Mortituri Saluamus" (ts)
Time slipped down the corridor… (ts/ms)
"Two Sides of a Window" (ts)

I hear dawn cracking with a burst of birds… (ts/ms)
"Invasion" (ts)
"Letter from Home" (ts)
"Of Love" (ts)
"Of Mourners" (ts)
"Small Fry" (ts/ms)
"Song" (ts)
"The Take-off" (ts)
The weight and wordiness of Spring… (ts)

"At Sechelt" / "Sea Sequence" (ts)
"Call my People Home" (ts/ms)
"The Child in Fear" (ts)
"Easter" (ts)
How good it is to turn the earth again… (ts/ms)
"The Mirror" (ts)
Now, my Lord… (ts/ms)
"Variations on a Tree" (ts)
"On Tape (Cariboo Bus)" (ts/ms)

"Lines on a Poet Who Stopped Writing (P.K. Page)" (ts(3)/ms)
"Adam's Choice" (ts)
"Autumn" (ts/ms)
"Bulldozer" (ts)
"The Invisible Sun" / "Housewife" (ts)
"On Seeing" (ts)
"Tale" (ts)

Father of this our lot… (ts(3)/ms)
"If Time" (ts/ms)
I'll never hear… (ts)
"Epithalamium for Susan" / "Overture for Susan" / "Ballad for Susan" (ts(3)/ms)
"Sequence in Light" (ts(2)/ms)
"Stampede" (ts/ms)
"Variations on a Solitary Theme" (ts/ms)

"Chant" / "Prayer" (ts(4)/ms)

"Beggar's Opera" (ts/ms)
Beloved the horn… (ts/ms)
The scratched face of the sea… (ts/ms)
"The Blade of Grass" (ts(2)/ms)
"Hop-scotch" (ts(2))
"Other" (ts(2))

"Pool" (ts/ms)
Animal, fawn… (ts/ms(2))
"Ceremonial Journey" / "Journey by Air" / "A Ceremony of Love" (ts(3))
"The Dark Runner" (ts)
"Diagnosis" (ts(2))
"Generation" (ts/ms)
"Genii" / "West Coast" (ts(2))
"Nocturne I" (ts(2))
"Nocturne II" (ts(2))
"On Seeing" (ts(2))
"Song" (ts)
"Song" / "Winter Song" (ts)
"Spring" (ts(4)/ms(2))
"The Traveller" (ts(2)/ms)
"This Arrow" (ts/ms)
"Versus the Universe" (ts/ms(2))

"Incognito" (ts)
"Isolate" / "Cobwebs" (ts(2)/ms)
"God Talking" / "Lovers" (ts(2))
"Melpomene" (ts)
"Modern Times" (ts/ms(2))
"On Whipping a Child" (ts/ms)
"The Skin of Time" / "Tiger, Tiger" (ts(2)/ms)
"Sunbather" (ts/ms)
"Boy Girl" / "Loving Weather" / "Of Human Weather" (ts/ms)
"Cameos" (ts)
"Madrigal" (ts)
"To a Younger Poet" (ts(5)/ms)
"The Twins" / "Man to Man" / "Units of Study" (ts/ms(2))

"Bivouac" (ts/ms(2))
"The Thirties" (ts(2))
"Among Friends" (ts(2)/ms)
Wow, Mr. Wu!... (ts(2))
"Remembering Red Lane" (ts(3)/ms)

"The Colour of God's Face" [Series of four poems] (ts)
"The Land" (ts(2)/ms)
"The People" (ts) [includes poems "Village"; "Funeral"; "Wedding"]
"The Prophetess" (ts)
"The Leader" (ts)

Unused portions of "Zambia" and "The Color of God's Face":
"Cockrow" (ts(2))
"Prophet" (ts)
"The Takeover" (ts(2))
"The Drowned Boy" (ms)
"Copperbelt" (ts)
"Copperbelt night" (ms)

"For Abe Klein: Poet" [series of poems dedicated to Abe Klein; each poem (except "The Descent) begins with a line of Abe Klein's poetry]
"The Descent" / "Envoy" (ts(2)/ms)
He breaks the wineglass underneath his heel. (A.K) / When they come… (ts(2)/ms)
"A Gloss of Poems (Remembering Abe Klein)" : Break down the twigs, break down the boughs / But break not, Lord, the golden bowl. (A.K.) / My body is tree… (ts(3)/ms)
The wrath of people is like foam and leather / Risen against us. Wherefore, Lord, and why? (A.K.) / Tender the boy's song… (ts(2)/ms)
"For Abe Klein: Poet" : And lives alone, and in his secret shines / like phosphorous. At the bottom of the sea. (A.K.) / Drowned? Were you the one… (ts(3)/ms(2))
"For Abraham" : Break down the twigs, break down the boughs / But break not, Lord, the golden bowl. (A.K.) / The stutter of the guns must still go on… (ts(2)/ms)
His was an open heart (A.K.) / He was always so 'there'... (ms)

"Autumn" (ts/ms)
"Being at a Loss" (ts/ms)
The colour of your talking... / "Voice" (ts/ms)
"Comox: 1965" (ts(6))
"Completion" (ts/ms)
"Epilogue" (ts)
"Four Songs" / "Variations on a Theme by Emily" (ts(11)/ms)
"He Calleth for Couples" (ts)
I bless you most, because… (ts(2)/ms)
I have to go on beyond your in time and space... / "The Differential" (ts(2)/ms)
I loved your mind… (ts)
"The Incendiary (For Duncan)" (ts(5)/ms)
"A Letter" (ts)
"Museum" (ts/ms)
"New for Walt" / "It's Time" (ts(4)/ms)
"Old Song" (ts)

"April Night" (ts(2)/ms)
"At "Sosnovka"" (ts(3)/ms)
Because you cannot be my mate… (ts(2))
"Between a Thousand" (ts/ms)
"The Eccentrics" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Encroachment" (ts/ms)
"The Feedback" (ts(2)/ms)
"House Keeper" (ts(3)/ms(2))
"In the Garden" / "The Coupling" (ts(3)/ms)
"In the Labyrinth" (ts(2))
"The invasion" (ts(5)/ms)
I seek an elixir… (ts/ms)
"Memo to my Daughter" (ts(2)/ms)
"Patterns" (ts(3))
"Persephone" (ts/ms)

"Among Friends" (ts/ms)
"The Apparition" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Child's Bed" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Dream" (ts/ms)
"Geranus' ... Crane" (ts(3)/ms(2))
I keep trying… (ts/ms)
"Insomnia" (ts(4)/ms(2))
Life is a process… (ts/ms)
"A Modern Crusoe" (ts(3)/ms)
"Never Shall I Lie" (ts(2)/ms)
"Of Marriages" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Step Beyond" (ts(2)/ms)
"Walking in the Dark" (ts(2)/ms)
"Woman" (ts(2)/ms)

"Solstice" / "Train journey" / "C.N.R. West" (ts(3)/ms)
"From my Balcony" / "Po Loo Shun in Edmonton" (ts(7)/ms(2)/p)
"Mud Bath" (ts(2)/ms)
To drink a whole bottle… (ts/ms)
"A Day in Lent" (ts/ms)
"St. Valentine's Day" (ts(4)/ms)
"Sea Shelter" / "The Houses" (ts(4)/ms)
"Jack on the Telephone Beanstalk" / "Who's Who" (ts(4)/ms)
"Heredity" / "Autobiog" / "My Father's Crest" (ts(9)/ms(3))
"After Winter" (ts/ms)
"Love is" (ts(2)/ms)
"A Poem for Randal" (ts/ms)
"Each Year the Birds" (ts/ms)
"We've Tamed" (ts(3)/ms(2))
"The Dilemma" (ts/ms)

"Aorte" (ts(3)/ms)
"Art Gallery" (ts/ms)
The glitter and the snap… (ts/ms)
I want to swing and swing and SWING… (ts/ms)
mauve michaelmas… (ts/ms)
"Gold Rush" (ts/ms)
"Lullaby" (ts/ms)
"The Twins" (ts(4)/ms)

"West Coast Winter (1973)" (ts(4)/ms)
"For Galen, Five Months Young" (ts(2))
"The Prisoner of Time (for an Old Man)" (ts(3))
"L'envoi" (ts/ms)
"Don't walk!" (ts/ms)
"Popular Song" / "Popular Song: You were an Angel" (ts(4)/ms)
"Letter from Victoria: 1973" (ts(2)/ms)
"It Ness" (ts(2)/ms)
"Cloud Messages" (ts/ms)
"Rock Cottage" / "Song: No Wild Sea" (ts/ms)
"Manifesto" (ts(3)/ms)
"Old Woman in the K Mart" / "Inflation" (ts/ms)
"Unitas" / "All One" (ts(2)/ms)
"Suicide" (ts(3)/ms)
"Sermon to a Young Man" / "Lecture to a Young Man" (ts/ms)
"Mount Baker" (ts(3)/ms)

This file contains 6 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 14 September 1928.
Letter from The Canadian Bookman (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 23 April 1939.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 1 July 1939.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 21 September 1943.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 22 December 1943.
Letter from Dorothy Livesay (not signed) dated 29 December 1943.

This file contains 7 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 9 January 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 13 March 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 6 April 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 26 June 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 12 September 1951.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 14 September 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 1 October 1951.

This file contains 2 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Enid Thornton) dated 10 February 1954.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Enid Thornton) dated 2 April 1954.

This file contains 8 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 29 March 1965.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 4 April 1965.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 7 May 1965.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 9 May 1965.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 16 June 1965.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Betty Henley) dated 18 June 1965.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 18 June 1965.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 15 November 1965.

This file contains 34 letters and a write-up:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 14 April 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Campbell Hughes) dated 10 May 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Campbell Hughes dated 15 May 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 15 June 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 16 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 17 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 23 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 27 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 27 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 8 July 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 12 July 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 19 July 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 22 July 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 3 August 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 1966?.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 9 August 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 7 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 7 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 20 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 21 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 23 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 26 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Campbell Hughes) dated 6 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 6 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 18 October 1966.
Write-up for 'The Unquiet Bed' from Ryerson Press.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 20 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 27 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 27 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 18 November 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 28 November 1966 (copies of letters from Earle Toppings to Roy Kiyooka and Edith McCarthy attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 5 December 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 15 December 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 'Sunday the 17th, 1966?'.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 22 December 1966.

This file contains 42 letters, a postage receipt, a review list, an advertisement, and a write-up:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 4 January 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 9 January 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 12 January 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 16 January 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 17 January 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 31 January 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 13 February 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 21 February 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 23 February 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 24 February 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Roy dated 27 February 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 2 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 7 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 22 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 22 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 22 March 1967.
Postage receipt from Ryerson Press for order of 'Selected Poetry-Dorothy Livesay' dated 20 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 29 March 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 31 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 6 April 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 7 April 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 11 April 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 11 April 1967.
Review list for 'The Unquiet Bed'.
Advertisement example for magazines for 'The Unquiet Bed'.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Enid Thornton) dated 13 April 1967.
Letter from Charlie Boylan to Earle Toppings dated 14 April 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 15 April 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 17 April 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 20 April 1967.
Letter and copy of same letter from Livesay(?) (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 21 April 1967.
Letter from Livesay (signed) to Earle Toppings dated 22 April 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 8 May 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 14 May 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 16 May 1967 (write-up of 'The Unquiet Bed' and other poetry books by Donald Phillipson attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 29 May 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 9 June 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 14 July 1967.
Letter (second page) from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) date unknown.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 25 July 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 31 July 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 4 August 1967(?).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 15 August 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 17 August 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 8 November 1967.

"Night Song" (ts)
"Possession" (ts/ms)
"The Unfulfilled" (ts/ms)
Only in music do I find rest... (ts)
"The Dreamer" (ts/ms)
"The Prophetess" (ts/ms)
Stung by fierce pride, she stood,... (ts/ms)
"Poet's Song" (ts)
"At the Fair" (ts)
"Young Sleep" (ts)
I sought her on the mountains where the sun has set... (ts)
"Old houses" (ts)
"Sonnet: An Imagined Conversation" (ts)
"Shower" (ts)
"Triolet" (ts)
"The Wind Sings" (ts)
"Remembrance" (ts)
"Love Crept so Sadly" (ts)
Come not too near me;... (ts)
"Voice from the storm" (ts)
"Disquietude" (ts/ms)
My soul is the wind, the strong white wind... (ts/ms)
"Epitaph" / "Wind in the rushes" (ts)
"In the Chapel" (ts)
"Barrier" (ts)
"The Beseigers" (ts)
"The Unwritten Letters" (ts)
"Bankrupt" (ts)
"Fireweed" (ts)
"Hate/Desire" (ts/ms)
"The Woman Who Lived Alone" (ts/ms)
"Autumn" (ts)
"A Gardener" (ts/ms)
"Helen" (ts/ms)
"Thoughts from the Shore" (ts/ms)
"The Listener: Sunday Morning" (ts)
"Fantasy" (ts)
"The Builders" / "Ecstasy" (ts)
"Her Valentine" (ts)
"The Man of Destiny" (ts)
"The Invincible" (ts)
"In her Cupboard" (ts)
"The Marauders" (ts)
"In Winter" (ts)

"Seasonal" (ts)
"Organ" (ts)
"Afterthought (Consideration)" (ts)
"Such Silence" (ts)

"Sign Post" (ts)
"Astronomers" (ts/ms)
"The Unbeliever" / "Accusation" (ts/ms)
"Old Song" (ts/ms)
"This Wisdom" (ts)
"Sheila" (ts/ms)
"Staccato" (ts)
"City Night" (ts/ms)
I confess I'll wear a smiling face… (ts/ms)
"Samaritans" (ts)
"Secrets" (ts)
"Of Battles" (ts)
"Tokens" (ts/ms)
"Weapons" (ts)
"For Archibald Lampman" (ts)
"And Even Now" (ts)
"Song" (ts)
"In the Street" (ts/ms)
"Resurrection" (ts)
"Blindness" (ts)
What way can my distress… (ts)
"Perversity" (ts)
"Alienation" (ts)
"Climax" (ts)
"The Room" (ts)
"Chained" / "The Aliens" (ts/ms)
"Decree" (ts)
"A Song for Ophelia" (ts)
O spring, hold back a little while… (ts)
"Interrogation" (ts)
Everyone says "Believe!"… (ts)
"Eurydice" (ts/ms)
"Envoy (To N.E.W.)" (ts/ms)
"Perversity (ii)" (ts)
"The Prisoner" (ts)
"Question" (ts)
"Time of Year (For M.E.W.)" (ts)
I must have trembled, then, because the storm… (ts)
"The Challenge" (ts)
"Doubt" (ts/ms)
"The Portraits" (ts)
"Winter" (ts)
"Edward Thomas" (ts)
Now I am starved for sun, and need… (ts)
"Wilderness Stone" (ts)
"Ask of the Winds" (ts)
"Assertion" (ts/ms)
"The Accursed" (ts)
"Sonnet for Ontario" (ts)
"The Difference" (ts)
"In the Grass" (ts)
I cried when I found something lovely;… (ts)
"Sonnet" (ts)
"Moments (Fragments)" (ts)
"Astronomy" (ts/ms)
Be thou then, the lamp… (ts)
No ground is alien to my eyes… (ts)
"Song for Solomon" (ts)
"No Kiss" (ts)
"Let us climb the tower," you said,… (ts)
"Neighbourhood" (ts)
"Summer" (ts)
"I was Surprised" / "Time" (ts)
"Song for Departure" (ts)
"Afterthought" (ts)
"What is it?" So I tried… (ts)
"If it were Easy" (ts/ms)
"Time" / "Time II" (ts/ms)
"Fable" (ts/ms)
"Not Love (For N.A.B.)" (ts/ms)
"The Peasants" (ts/ms)
"September Morning" (ts/ms)
"The Price" (ts)
"Recompense" (ts/ms)
"Supplication" (ts/ms)
"Companions" (ts)
"Daedalus" (ts/ms)
"Postscript" (ts)
"Northern loon" (ts(2))

Clean up, clean up yourself!... (ts/ms)
"To know silence perfectly is to know music." -Carl Sandburg (ts/ms)
Far cry! I did not treasure you enough… (ts/ms)
My heart is full of hard thoughts… (ts/ms)
I thought of you... (ts/ms)
"Write of a crocus;" so she said… (ts/ms)
It is easy, so they say… (ts/ms)
This broken laughter has changed to laughter now… (ts/ms)
How like a ship your hands are fashioned out;… (ts/ms)
"Shut up the Windows" (ts/ms)
Paint the heart with yellow in slow bloom… (ts/ms)
I never was exultant in the dark… (ts(2)/ms)
Shake me with your own grief… (ts(2)/ms(2))
I shall still be wandering through this wood… (ts/ms)
In the wood wild orange lilies burn… (ts/ms)