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Poems by Jenny Blake, manuscript collected by WW containing original typescript of the following poems:A Bawl of Wool:-pome for a dead soldier-pome of not drawing roses-pome of a girl-pome of a church-pome of my uncle-pome of mirrors-pome of maidenheads-pome of unknowing-pome of drawing water-pome of thoughts-pome of hair-pome of rain-pome of grief-pome of smells-pome of emblems-pome of sun-pome of cuckolds-pome of Helen of Troy-pome of Venus-pome of windows-pome of spring-pome of maids of honour-pome of a husband-pome of addition-pome of words-pome of a girl-pome of ghosts-pome of nothingness-lines of flesh and bones-pome of drawing tigers-pome of a tree-pome of keeping silence-lines for a pencil portrait-pome of shame-lines, of thought-lines by Jenny Blake-Lines: Once out of nature-pome of William Blake's Jenny-pome of rape-pome of the she-pit-pome of arguments-long pome of fire-lines of seeing-lines in my flesh-pome of disappearing-Lines on the English tongue-pome of the world-pome of love's finger-pome of

Journals and Notebooks.

Poems by Jenny Blake; bound manuscript; manuscript alternate titles "dancing to their flute", "vowels pitches"Photocopy of manuscript prepared by Sheila Watson (with notes about original publications) for the bawl of wool section of Collected Poems (some poems in manuscript omitted from the Collected Poems

Tables of contents for a Jenny Blake collection and carbon typescript of a very few of the poems for it, including the following:-pome of words-pome of the falseness of pictures-pome of a husband-lines of flesh and bones-what do I, Jenny Blake, know/of the life of Maria Egyptiaca-Persephone's black husband Pluto-Paradox-Lines upon a naked line

Friday's Child material filed together by Wilfred Watson:-typescript of Vernon Watkins, "Pledges to Darkness" from The Death Well-typescript of "Lagoon" with manuscript epigraph and date (1955)-carbon typescript of "Here at Vancouver" (July 1955)-carbon typescript of "A Lullaby for Falstaff"-typescript of "A Canticle for Children" with manuscript revisions-typescript of "utter the images of doom"-typescript of three versions of "Christmas Eve: Edmonton 1954"-typescript of TESTIMONY by Vernon Watkins"-typescript of "Lines for my four nieces"-manuscript letter from WW to "Whom it May Concern", making Sheila Watson his literary executor (April 17 1955)-typescript of two drafts with manuscript revisions of letter to Ann Taylor, editor, McClelland and Stewart offering Friday's Child (August 3 1953)-four typescript versions and two manuscript versions of undated letter addressed "Dear Sir" offering Friday's Child-typescript of "The Fallen Cedar", with manuscript signature and note "Point Gray, B.C."-typescript of "

Canvasses Point Gray - book length unpublished manuscript of poems; carbon copy. I Begin with Counting/ Number-grid Poetry

Sixteen pages of unidentified number-grid poems, both manuscript and typescript.

Typescript and manuscript drafts of number-grid verse:-typescript "re the haiku as analog methodology"-three manuscript drafts of "halibut sonnet"-typescript "re hamlet"-manuscript draft "the great fragile almost extinct whooping crane"-typescript "re haydn recordings"-manuscript "archetypes are images "-nine pp. manuscript drafts of "the head in the birdcage"-typescript "re herakles"-manuscript "the hermeneutics of disbelief"-two typescripts "re the hermeneutics of space"-manuscript "the heron interiorizing beach"-five manuscript and seven typescript drafts, versions "hers is the beauty of the japanese sword"-typescript "re hipolitus"-manuscript "his face an implacable moon"-typescript "How can the homeless"-typescript "how to get fat"-manuscript and typescript versions "I complained to eternity"-manuscript draft "I dreamed I found myself in a city"-manuscript draft "I invented blank verse in 1957"-typescript "I looked into a book of verse"-typescript "I recall nights/when the moon"-manuscript "I think of an

Photocopies of typescript of 118 pp. collection titled: "no. [i.e. number-grid] poems 1976/1978" 'Improvisations; constructions for two or more voices'.

Improvisations; constructions for two or more voices - bound copy of typescript with manuscript dedication to Diane Bessai.

Script for Tom Peacocke production with "number grid kids" of I begin with counting

Number-grid versions of Shakespeare sonnets 25-121, using one or two words per line for each of fourteen slots

Number-grid verse poems:-two versions typescript "January 23, 1977 - Yates and Molinari"-two typescript versions of "8/122"-one fragment (pg. two)

Manuscript and typescript pages of number-grid verse including the following poems:-"Driving with Graham McEwen"-"riddle: those who say they love me"-"for Anne, who brought tulips"Also includes blank WW letterhead (with drawings, etc.)

Haiku/Number-grid Notebooks

Typescripts of number-grid verse, numbered (in lieu of titles), so as to suggest they were intended as part of a series, and including:-"twelve haydn quartets on six recordings"-"there are white birds falling out of the sky:-"that was another day"-"the machine in the garden talks to the sparrow"-"edmonton spaces the corner of jasper"-"edmonton spaces robert kroetsch walks across the high level bridge"-"edmonton spaces the north bank of the north saskatchewan river"-"edmonton spaces the art gallery"-"edmonton spaces the tory building"-"edmonton spaces a full moon"-"edmonton spaces the vertical sun"-"my father he took me swimming"-"lovers are lousy poets"-"my o so beautiful sister in law"-"the more and more Canadian poetry I read"-"the real misery of age"-"cow girl harry the impersonator"-"it was when she took off her polka dot dress"-"edmonton spaces the chock cherry exploding"-"I have committed folornification"-"she is occupied"-"agape agape says the machine gun"-"the obvious topics for poetry are occupied"-"

HNIQ Haiku/constructionsHonku Book 1, Series 1

Manila envelope marked "NeWest Publishers" containing the following poems and items:-multiple typescript copies of "stone riddle"-multiple typescript copies of "yates and molinari"-multiple typescript copies of "Come, Aristotle"-draft typescripts of WW's Canadian Who's Who entry-photocopies of "The People's Cinema", a poem by Glyn Maxwell

Number-grid poems, Series 9

Number-grid poems, Series 10

Number-grid poems, Series 5

HN3Q, Series 3

Number-grid poems, Series 19

Number-grid poems, Series 17

Various loose manuscript and typescript pages relating to "riddle" poe manuscript

Poems: Collected/Unpublished/New (Book of poetry)Drafts of section headings, titles, and dedications for Collected Poems.

Notebook containing six typescripts of the following poems:-"O moon"-"H.M.S. Valiant at Plymouth, 1916"-"Valiant 2"-"I'm not my body's mind out on parole"-"Remembrance Day"

Three drawings by WW and typescripts of the following poems: (originally together in manila envelope)-"The net"-"Verse letter to Sheila"-"This city"-"Though rhyme wants a blank prose" (inscribed "For Sheila, Wilfred")-"Some Blood for Philip Flea"-"The coy mistress reconsiders"-"Lines at the full of the moon"-"The blue-eyed tree"-"Good Friday lecture" (inscribed 'For Sheila tout seule, W.")-"Lines on the queen's visit"-"retrospective lampoon for Jack Shadbolt" (inscribed "For the greatest of Cn. short story writers from W")-"The double hook"-"Who mocks my virgin"-"Lines"

Poems: Collected/Unpublished/New - complete typescript

Typescript of poems and miscellaneous prose (continued):-typescript "O moon"-typescript carbon "o/possum deconstruction: sophoclea"-typescript carbon "the offshore canadians"-typescript fragment "The Pigs"-typescript "Picasso and gertrude stein"-typescript "Poem" ("There were two sisters")-typescript "Poem" ("within these glass walls"), with manuscript revisions-typescript "Poem for the coming on of May" with manuscript revisions-typescript "Poems grow tired of us"-four typescript carbons "pome of Laforgue"-two typescript versions and six carbons "Pritemps/1987"-typescript "Prolusion"-typescript "Proserpina I: The Flower", with manuscript revisions-typescript "Proserpina II: The Marriage with Death", with manuscript revisions-three typescript carbons "putting an old environment inside a new one"-typescript "The Queen of Tarts"-typescript fragment "Quis puer gracilis: after Milton and Horace", with manuscript draft of telegram from WW on verso-typescript "Raining cats and dogs"-typescript and two carbons "re"-

Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous prose (continued):-two typescript carbons "re Shakespeare on husbandry"-typescript and three carbons "re swans at quamichan lake"-typescript carbon "re the blue jays of april fifteen"-typescript fragment and three manuscript "re the city"-typescript carbon "re the explosion at the power station"-typescript "re the gang of six"-typescript and three carbons "re the march election"-three typescript carbons "re the poetry of thomas hardy"-two typescript carbons "re the prairie as archetype"-typescript and three carbons "re the rain forest"-typescript "re the shirt of nessus"-typescript "re the Sunday afternoon news"-typescript and six carbons "Reason is full of rank despairs (version 1)-eight typescript carbons "Reason is full of rank despaits" (version 2)-four typescript carbons "remembering tom peacocke's durrenmatt"-typescript "Report to Apollo", with manuscript query "Is this a good revision?" at top)-three typescript versions "A requiem for those dying unchurched", two

Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous prose (continued):-three typescript version "Retract the flame/Retract the fire"-typescript and four carbons "riddle" ("I am a cat")-two complete typescript carbons and two incomplete carbons of "riddle" ("I am not as tall")-typescript "Riddle/crib"-typescript carbon "riddle for irma"-typescript "riddle/machine"-typescript "Satire four: the ape in the clay"-typescript "The scaffold: a canticle of children"-typescript Scaffold of children"-typescript "The scales"-three typescript carbons "short essay on Agamemnon"-typescript carbon "small talk in a barber shop, o.s."-typescript "A song for the burial"-typescript "Sonnet: Now all my thought was knotted in my brain"-two typescript carbons "stone riddle"-typescript "Sucking stones" (with manuscript excision)-typescript "The sun (folks) is a yellow bucket"-typescript "this our still unravished child"-typescript "There was heard afar"-typescript "This" (Nov 27/60)-typescript "This was my day but yet I knew it not"-twelve pp. t

Cockcrow and the Gulls-copy with manuscript dedication "For swp from wlp."

Typescripts of miscellaneous poems and prose (continued):-three typescript versions "The Herons/The Barking Herons" (first dedicated "For Sheila, W.W" and dated Dec. 10, 1956; third labeled "Version III" and dedicated "For SWP"-typescript and seven carbons "Hiku" ("A red-hatted sunrise glowering")-typescript and eight carbons "Hiku" ("Descartes thought")-seven typescript carbons "Hiku" ("Fred Flahiff went")-typescript and seven carbons "Hiku" ("The powerful")-two typescript versions "Hiku for a mechanical bestiary"-three carbons of 17 pp. typescript "Hiku-Haiku" ("In 1984")-three typescript carbons of "Hiku-Haiku" ("Stabat mater")-typescript "Hiyu Haiku" ("Today, thanks to")-typescript fragment "The HMS Valiant at Plymouth, 3"-two typescript carbons "I'm not by body's mind out on parole"-typescript of "Jenny Blake's Drawings" (with manuscript revisions)-typescript "jenny blake's pome of the albatross"-typescript "Jenny Blake's Tree of Benzine"

Script for CBC reading of four of Wilfred Watson's poems

Bound notebook: Saga hwaet ic hatte. This volume includes:-manuscript drafts of WW's early and never-published riddles-manuscript drafts of essay material on "utility"-manuscript drafts of essay material on Henry James' art-manuscript draft of an untitled short story-manuscript material on "Sterne's didacticism"-notes on "Smith's Moral Sentiments"-manuscript draft material on "Theory of Negative, or Oblique Imitation"-drafts of four untitled poems-manuscript notes on communications, on allegory, on :Blake on Satire", on "The Wheel from T.S. Eliot, and on Hume-draft of a poem "Lucretius"-draft of a poem "Who kill Charity/say some"-draft of a poem "The Destruction of Shilbeth"-draft of a poem "The Trial"-draft of a poem "To Anne"

Typescripts of poems and miscellaneous manuscripts (continued):-typescript "verse letter to diane bessai, re philosophy"-four typescript carbons "verse letter to margaret kapala alias charlotte corday"-typescript "A warning of oboes"-three typescript carbons "What mirrors do to us"-typescript carbon "what roy kiyooka told me"-two typescript versions "When the peas began to bake"-eleven typescript carbons "yates and molinari"

Cockcrow and the Gulls - Copy of play; not many revisions

Cockcrow and the Gulls - Copy of play

Several manuscript drafts of the "Note" to Cockcrow and the Gulls in Collected Plays

Cockcrow and the Gulls - Primary play script with some inserted pp. and manuscript excisions; second copy of script with some revisions

Vision of Cockcrow - 'plan' and 'definition' of action

Cockcrow and the Gulls - program notes written by Ian Sowton, with manuscript note from Sowton to Watson appended to the end of it; includes a carbon typescript of :"Director's Note" by Gordon Peacock

"Wail for Two Pedestals" (Yardbird Suite, 1964; published 1965).Wail for Two Pedestals - typescript "draft from which the published version was made" with information from performance

Wail for Two Pedestals - typescript of play

."Chez-vous Comfortable Pew" - manuscript material(Yardbird Suite, 1964; published 1965).

Theatre design - drawings by Norman Yates for set design of Cockcrow and the Gulls10 drawings, 41x55 cmOversize 95-131-3, Box 1

Trial of Corporal Adam - mimeographed script autographed to Diane Bessai with notes and inserted examination booklet with manuscript revisions

Two Teardrops frozen in the rear-view mirror - two versions of typescript for unpublished play, with performance notes.

The Canadian Fact - typescript.

Soul is my Button - typescript copy with revisions made in production

"Let's Murder Clytemnestra According to the Principles of Marshall McLuhan" (Studio Theatre, 1969; published 1988)

Original musical score, score with lyrics, and copies of songs for Acadia University production of Soul is my Button, composer Jock Sirulnikov

Soul is my Button - "Record Book" with outline of play, preliminary drafts

Soul is my Button - manuscript fragments filed by Wilfred Watson in blue notebook

Let's Murder Clytemnestra - working script, photocopy of typescript with manuscript revisions

Let's Murder Clytemnestra- extensive draft passages, manuscript and typescript

Gramsci x 3 - original typescript titled Deputy Gramsci, an inquest into the death of

Permission letters re Gramsci x 3

"Gramsci x 3" (Studio Theatre, 1985; published 1983)

Blancnoir - "The negroids" (unpublished, unperformed; possible early version of Blancnoir; includes typescript with some manuscript notes).

Blancnoir - unpublished full-length play; original typescript of a version titled A negress who smelled as if she'd crawled through wild grass - limerick and fuge on the theme, my love is clean contrary to the love everlasting, 64 pp.

Over Prairie Trails -carbon typescript with numerous original ink manuscript revisions-manuscript drafts in three examination booklets-original typescript with numerous illustrations

Blancnoir-typescript of play "The White Rhodesians: a tragic farce"; [incomplete, part of the Blancnoir play material]

Thing in Black - typescript

The What Not - typescript

The Rock Hook (a dramatization of The Double Hook)-carbon copy-two title pages and original typescript of opening page of different version

Fly Away, Moth -carbon copy, 21 pp.

Oedipus the King-manuscript drafts in examination booklet-manuscript drafts of scenario and dialogue labelled Oedipus and Jocasta, 14 pp

Over Prairie Trails - typescript

The Princess's Satire - mimeograph copy, labelled "copy 2", 16 pp.

Inside the Canadian Border - manuscript draft in examination book and six pp. original typescript of play

The Burglar - original typescript, labelled "rough draft"

Single page of manuscript for play about Colonel Rulf; other versions are short story

Mr. Warren's Daughter - three examination booklets with manuscript draft of materials for play

The crucifixion of the Xmas Tree - manuscript draft of materials for play, 3 pp.

The Ventriloquists-original typescript of play, 50 pp.-original typescript of different version of play titled "The Ventriloquists, or, the death of yidderman", 51 pp.

The Woman of Trachis - complete original typescript and original typescript with a different version of the first page, 11 pp.

Ng'n'ng": a fertility ritual in four acts - mimeograph copy with some manuscript revisions

After Kafka : The Judgement - manuscript drafts of various passages; original typescript

Pschodelic Satan - typescript-"A verse reading to commemorate the tercentenary of the publication of Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) For Gordon Peacock"

The Apes of God - typescript of play, after novel by Wyndham Lewis

"The Spy" (Unpublished) - two typescripts with manuscript revisions

"The Spy" - three typescript versions (with marked differences)

Manuscript draft of unpublished short story, "Fang"

Seven typescript drafts, with manuscript corrections and additions, and a fair typescript of short story, "The Woman from Pelican Hills" (titled "But me no buts" in the first five drafts)

Typescript and manuscript drafts of short stories; manuscript draft and two typescript version of a story (novel?), 3 pp.

Drafts of "The Unfinished Autobiography of Muriel N", including:-twenty-eight pieces of cardboard with manuscript draft-one larger piece of cardboard with manuscript draft-one notebook with manuscript draft-typescript draft of "Marshall McLuhan's Muriel", 3 pp.-one cardboard sheet with writing about Marshall McLuhan (Oversize: 95-131-4, Box 3)

"The Baie Comeau Angel and Other Stories" - typesetting copy

Typescript draft of incomplete, unpublished short story "Standard Fiction"

Typescript draft of the beginning of a short story, "The Invention of Children"

Original typescript draft of "The Unfinished Autobiography of Muriel N", 30 pp. and original typescript of a short story identified in headers as either "The Shellfish" or "L'homard c'est moi", 9 pp.

Two typescript version of "Four Times Canada is Four" with marked variation; one with ms corrections

Original typescript draft of "Design, zwitschen Tur aund Angel", later titled "The Baie Comeau Angel"; includes a copy of above typescript with letter from Don Theall commenting on it

Typescript of "From Cliche to Archetype", 111 pp.

Manila envelope marked "Department of English, University of Alberta" containing typescripts for seven short stories: "Short Story", "The Shoes", "Resentment", "The Girl Who Lived in a Glass Box". "Mettre en conte le dream", "The Baie Comeau Angel", and "The Conspiracy"; includes one page of acknowledgements

Under the Rabbit's Paw: parapsychotransmitted from the Canamerican of Everett Hozard by Wilfred Watson; a novel accepted by Faber and Faber but never revised by Watson

Typescript drafts of sections of "From Cliche to Archetype"

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