Contents include: i) Holograph poems, in draft, in pencil, on back of dust jacket of The Complete Bible, with Apocrypha (Smith & Goodspeed). Poems are: "An Old Poet Complains" (3 drafts); "On a Certain Canadian Author"; "Riposte"; "Bargain"; "On Reading Spender's Collected Poems" (2 drafts) ; ii) "The Dwarf." Holograph draft and final typescript. (4 pages); iii) "Spikes". Holograph drafts (3), and "Flat Lux." holograph and typescript, all these stapled together, one draft of "Flat Lux being on back of draft of "Spikes"; iv) "Real Estate Room". Typescript, no emendations; v) "Psychosoma" (two lines) Typescript, no emendations; vi) "The Birth of Tragedy", typescript, title crossed out in pencil, Nietzsche written in pencil under title and crossed out; vii) "Early Morning in Cote St. Luc" typescript, one emendation; viii) "Winter Fantasy", typescript, one emendation; ix) Manuscript of In the Midst of My Fever, various emendations in pencil, including, on the reverse side of the title poem's last page a note to Raymond Souster beginning, "Here's a long one that I hope you can use", and praising some of Souster's poems as "Great."; x) Manuscript of The Improved Binoculars (title page missing,) emendations in blue and red ink. I am not sure if this was final version, or complete; ix) "My Brother, Irving", dated Sept. 22, 1954, short story (2 1/4 pages in blue and red ink.) Plus a few other jottings, written in a Sir George Williams College exam book; xii) Drafts, in pencil, of "The Cold Green Element", numbering 10 in all, with final typescript. Also on reverse of first page a poem called "Turnabout", typescript with emendations. Contained in Sir George Williams College exam book, dated July 16, 17, 1954.
