Acc.12477 September 2011
Inventory
Acc.12477
Gael Turnbull
National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected]
© Trustees of the National Library of Scotland Commonplace books and a photograph album, from the archive of Gael Turnbull (1928-2004), poet and medical practitioner.
For further papers of Gael Turnbull, please see Acc12552, Acc.12553, Acc.12554, Acc.12555, and Acc.12556.
Bought, 2005.
This accession contains:
1-2. Commonplace books, circa 1957-1972. 3. Photograph and manuscripts and typescripts of poems, 1953-1973 and undated. 4. Photograph album.
1-2. Commonplace books, circa 1957-1972.
These books contain copies of poems and other writings by various writers made by Gael Turnbull, and entries made by other poets themselves. They also have printed and manuscript poems and letters pasted in, and loosely inserted.
1. Commonplace book, circa 1957-1972.
This volume includes poems, prose and translations by Kingsley Amis, Guillaume Apollinaire, George Barker, Basil Bunting, André du Bouchet, Gregory Corso, Donald Davie, Pierre Henri Delattre, Robert Duncan, Laurence Durrell, William Empson, David Gascoyne, Allen Ginsberg, CM Grieve, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Melville Hardiment, Thomas Hardy, Geoffrey Hazard, Jeremy Hilton, Godfrey John, CG Jung, Hugh Kenner, Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, DH Lawrence, Denise Levertov, Edward Lowbury, George MacDonald, Stéphane Mallarmé, Barissa Mills, Ewart Milne, William Morris, Charles Olson, Kenneth Patchen, Laura Riding, Christina Rossetti, Michael Shayer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Tomlinson, Simone Weil, Reed Whittemore, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth and Louis Zukofsky.
2. Commonplace book, circa 1959-1970.
This volume includes poems, prose and translations by Peter Armstrong, George Barker, Robert Bly, Basil Bunting, Michael Butler, Brenda Chamberlain, Dorcas Connor, Robert Creeley, Ed Doon, John Dowding, Robert Duncan, Gunter Eich, TS Elliot, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roy Fisher, Lough Gill, CM Grieve, Melville Hardiment, Hugh Creighton Hill, Anselm Hollo, Thomas Hughes, John James, Jess, Ron Johnson, Jeff King, Denise Levertov, Christopher Logue, Edward Lowbury, Robert Lowell, Michael McClure, William McGonagall, John Milton, Tom O’Donnell, Charles, Olson, George Oppen, Tom Pickard, Omar S Pound, Tom Raworth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Michael Shayer, Eli Siegel, Louis Simpson, Williams Stafford, Peter Stitt, Robert Garrioch Sutherland, Charles Tomlinson, Gael Turnbull, Bill Turner, Helen Waddell, Jonathan Williams, William Carlos Williams, Yvor Winters, William Wordsworth and Louis Zukofsky.
3. Photograph and manuscripts and typescripts of poems, 1953-1973 and undated.
Photograph, 1968, of Basil Bunting and Gael Turnbull at Great Witley Court, Worcestershire. (One folio.)
Manuscripts and typescripts of poems, 1953-1973 and undated, of Louis Dudek, Paul Bjarnason, Robert Graves, [ ] Morgan, Oman S Pound, and Robert Garrioch Sutherland. (Five folios.)
4. Photograph album.
ff.1-3 Party at Irving Layton’s, Montreal, 7 October 1955.
f.1 Irving Layton. Louis Dudek.
f.2 Eli Mandel. Phyllis Webb.
f.3 Betty (Sutherland) Layton and Avi Boxer. Frank Scott.
f.4 Ray Souster, Toronto, November 1954 Roland Giguère, Montreal, 8 October 1955.
f.5 David Palmer, Austria 1954. Charlene Palmer, Austria, 1954.
ff.6-7 Charles Olson. (Two photographs.)
f.8 Robert Creely, Mallorca. Jonathan Williams, Palo Alto, 1957.
f.9 Hugh Creighton Hill. Anne and Bill Price Turner, Glasgow.
f.10 Bob Cooper, Richmond, November 1955. Fred Woods.
f.11 Robert Duncan, February 1956. Robert Duncan in front of the National Gallery, London, January 1956.
f.12 Jess Collins, Richmond, February 1956. Louis, Celia, and Paul Zukofsky, with Gael Turnbull, Worcester, July 1957.
f.13 Iola and Barris Mills, London, September 1956. Martin Seymour-Smith, Mayfield, September 1956. George Johnston, Ledbury, April 1957.
f.14 Roy Fisher. Barbara Fisher, Newton Abbot, Devon, 1957.
f.15 Charles and Brenda Tomlinson, Somerset, April 1957. Charles Tomlinson and Gale Turnbull, Somerset, July 1958.
f.16 Michael Shayer, Worcester, September 1958. Godfrey John, Worcester, September 1958.
f.17 Mary and John Preston, Callow End, August 1958. Ed Dorn and family, Washington, 1958.
f.18 Pierre Delattre, San Francisco, November 1958. Pierre Delattre. Lois Delattre.
f.19 Paul Zukofsky.
f.20 Wanda Donlin, Philadelphia, 1959. (Two photographs.)
f.21 Bill Price Turner (with sons, Kenneth and Leslie), Glasgow, August 1959. Ian Hamilton Finlay.
f.22 Gael Turnbull, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, DH Lawrence Ranch, Taos, July 1960. Gael Turnbull and Cid Corman, [1961].
f.23 Gael Turnbull and Cid Corman, Ventura College, May 1961. Cid [Corman], Ventura, May 1961.
f.24 Robert Duncan, Jess Collins, and Gale Turnbull, Stinson Beach, April 1961. Robert Duncan and Jess Collins’ house, Stinson Beach.
f.25 Denise Levertov, Ventura. (Two photographs.)
f.26 John Sutherland, Spring 1956. Audrey Sutherland, 1961.
f.27 Helmut Bonheim and Gael Turnbull, Ventura, September 1962. Helmut Bonheim, September 1962.
f.28 Charles Olson, Vancouver, summer 1963. Jessie McGuffie, circa 1960.
f.29 Michale Shayer, Alan Ginsberg, Gael Turnbull, Anselm Hollo, Bridge House, Summer 1965.
f.30 Tom Pickard, Basil Bunting, Gael Turnbull, Stuart Montgomery, Wylam, January 1966. Louis and Paul Zukofsky, Malverns, 1957.
f.31 Gael Turnbull and Basil Bunting, Wylam, winter 1965. Connie, Julie, Gael Turnbull, Shari Turnbull, and Tom and Matthew Pickard, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1965.
f.32 Pete Brown, Shari Turnbull, Maria Bunting, Chris Turnbull, and Basil Bunting, Goodrich Castle, Hereford, 1965.
f.33 Tom and Matthew Pickard, Allendale, Summer 1966. Basil Bunting, Stiffords Bridge, May 1970.
f.34 Gael Turnbull and Matthew Mead, Aylesbury, Bucks, 4 June 1971. Gael Turnbull with Lennart Odlander, Västerrs, Sweden, 1971.
f.35 Basil Bunting, Roy Fisher, Mike Butler, and Gael Turnbull, May 1970, Bridge House. Mike Butler, May 1970.
f.36 Jonathan Williams, Tom Meyer, and Gael Turnbull, 1971. Omar Pound, Malvern, July 1973.
f.37 Basil Bunting.
f.38 Norman Nicholson, March 1985.
f.39 Basil Bunting.
5. Original binding for Acc.12477/4.