Sketchbooks kept by Geoffrey Grigson, [1943]-1978 and n.d. [c.1940-1966]

File

MS. 23802/96

Held in our offsite storage facility

Comprises ten sketchbooks containing drawings made in places including:

Angles, Montoire, Vale of Pewsey, Portland, Hackpen Clumps, Lugbury, East Fleet, Abbotsbury, and Langton Herring, 1966 and n.d. [c.1966]
'Scilly, Dupath Well, Egga[r]don, Tamar, Köln, Tübingen, Wye & Caves, Gower, Grongar, Widford, Swinbrook, Saltash', 1955 and n.d. [c.1955]. Also contains a poem, 'Lord Lugworm'.
'Corton Barn, Lago di Garda, Ornans, Azincourt, Orcheston St. Mary, Wilton, Sources of Thames, Martinsell, Elkstone, Richard's Castle, Dick Whittington's Church', 1957-1958
'Cyprus, 1973'
'Brittany & Crete, 1978'
'Isles of Scilly', n.d. [c.1940]
'Woolley: Somerset, Scilly, Skirrid Vaur, Llanvetherine, Moccas, Old Radnor, Castel Crugerydd, Abbey Cwm Hir, Clun', n.d. [c.1950]
Venice, n.d. [c.1960]
'Skirrid, Cwmyoy, Pelynt, Bryn Celli Du, Snowdon, Mendip Kilns, Mendip Caves', 1954 and n.d. [c.1954]
Yorkshire, including Weathercote Cave, Ingleborough, and Easegill Kirk, [1943]