Typescript single sheets with illustrations.
Titles:
Dancer in firelight;
Inner landscape;
Our man formerly in Havana;
Musicians.

Typescript single sheets with musical ms. and typed verses.
Titles: La Carmagnole -- Le chant du depart -- The good times are just around the corner-- Home isn't home for you, feller-me-lad -- Con la Guerriglia -- Moscow in May -- Katusha.

Typescript of article by John Manifold on the history of the sonnet.

Music score - scored for two flutes and side-drum. Three movements : March: The Struggle, Saraband: The fallen ; Rondo: The dance on May Day.
Accompanied by letter from John Manifold to Wendy [Allen] re meeting of flute club, and a sheet entitled Some Sonnets of J.S.M. broken into columns of Visual and Aural. (1 p.)

Handwritten poems, some signed by John Manifold, others not, but appear to be in the same hand. One poem might have been written by another person.
Poems:
To an incompletely remembered mistress
Sonnet for a Caravaggio lady
Resignation with a sonambulist
Ex Africa ....
Sparrows, a flower-swallow and Captain Cook's tea tree (Trochaic sonnet)
Plasticarol for a plastichristmas
Death indefinitely postponed in the old men's home
Death in the old men's home
Warning against loving too much
[Poem beginning with the words] Nurse Exe-Wye, that teetotal bidge...
[Poem beginning] Why Kampuchea? What about Timor? (This poem is not like the others, so may be by another person).

2 handwritten letters to Terence Tiller from John Manifold, written immediately following his time at Cambridge University. Discuss communist politics, poetry, and academic activities. One letter is written substantially in rhyming stanzas.

Typescript poem (2 l.)

Photocopy of ring-bound notebook containing revolutionary ballads, transcribed by John Manifold, with music. Titles: Banks are made of marble -- Aten Weisen -- Gedanken sind Frei -- French partisan song -- Good times are -- Home isn't home for you -- International -- March of the Thalmann battalion -- Moscow in May -- Ode to joy -- Oka River -- Our fathers' songs -- Red flag -- Road to life -- Soviet land -- Tu n'es pas maitre -- United front -- Wir sind das Bauvolk.

Photocopy of four German ballads, collected and transcribed by John Manifold, with music. Accompanied by one sheet of music for Lili Marlen'. Titles: The peat bog soliders (Die Moorsoldaten) -- Solidarity for ever (shortened version) -- In einem Kuhlen Grunde -- Es ritten drei Reiter.

Photocopy of thirty-three ballads and folksongs, collected and transcribed by John Manifold, with music. Titles: Alouette -- Aye waukin O -- Bailiff's daughter -- Binnorie -- Blaydon races -- Boney was a warrior -- Chantons la vigne -- Chanson du Tambourineur -- Compagnons de la table ronde -- En passant par la Lorraine -- Jardin d'Amour -- Katusha -- Lo que digo -- Lord Bateman -- Mere Michel -- Mamzelle Zizi -- Old man came rolling home -- O Strasburg -- Otonal -- Pauvre peti' Mamzelle Zizi -- Petit Navire -- Quand j'etions chez mon pere -- Quand trois poules-- Quelle est cette odeur -- Qu'on m'apporte ma flute -- Red cavalry -- Roi Renaud -- Si le roi m'avait donne -- Stenka Razin -- Two kings' children -- United front -- Wenn die Soldaten -- Yankee ship.