Layton Collection
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Newspaper Clippings
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News paper articles by Layton covering a wide range of topics, from politics to spirituality
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Notebook containing lecture notes and drafts of poems
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Contents include: p1-5 Lecture notes on Plato & Athens; p6-8 Drafts of poem - first line "From the reeling autobus I see", titled Street Scene then A vision; p9 Lecture note on Hamlet; pl0-12 Lecture notes on educational problems in a changing world; p13-27 Drafts of poems finally titled Teacher, earlier titles Re-union, Schoolmaster; p28-34 Drafts of poem finally titled Philosophy 34; p35 The literary life; hateful verses draft; p36-44 Overhead in a barbershop various drafts with changing titles; p45 A booklist; p46-50 Overhead in a barbershop further drafts; p51-52 Education draft; p53 Draft of poem - first line "What the wind said"; p54-55 Blank; p66 A timetable and further draft of Philosophy 34. (Note that only pages with content have been scanned).
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Notebook kept during visit to Europe
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Contents include: p1-16 The day Aviva came to Paris various drafts; p17-18 In praise of benefactors drafts variously titled; p19-66 Blank; p67-77 The day Aviva came to Paris drafts; p78-88 Piazzo San Marco drafts variously titled; p89-108 Women of Rome various drafts; p109-119 Blank except for an address in unidentified hand; p119-121 Diary entries of Italian trip; p122 Blank; p123-124 Diary entry of day in Rome; Remainder blank. (Note that only pages with content have been scanned)
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Poetry Notebook
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2 folders including drafts of the following poems: “The Massacre (for Pierre Elliott Trudeau), “Opiums”, “Princess Anna” and “A Shout in the Storm”; Also included: The Drunken Boat, Rimbaud, 1952. (End papers contain draft of Layton poem); The Poet’s Way of Knowledge, Lewis, C. Day, Cambridge University Press, 1957 (End papers contain draft of poem and essay by Irving Layton); Person, Place and Thing, Karl Shapiro, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942. (Signed, “Irving Layton” End papers contain two drafts of poem about Petawawa. Also, on p.5, draft of ‘Epitaph for a Poet’ dated Jan. 25, 1943; Draft of Chapter 7 of Layton autobiography Waiting for Messiah; Articles about Irving Layton; Telegram from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, September 4, 1957, inviting Irving Layton to participate in “Fighting Words” TV program.
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Shadows on the Ground
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Unbound manuscript pages in a duo tang of Layton's Shadows on the Groundpublished by Mosaic in 1982 and designed by Doug Frank. Limited to 200 copies, of which this is number 156. Message handwritten on title page to Stephanie and Max signd by Layton. 6 pages including poems: “The Annunciation,” “Samantha Clara Layton,” “Portrait of a Modern Woman,” “Everything in the Universe Has its Place,” and “Make Room, William Blake.” Provenance uncertain.
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