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).

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.)

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

Correspondence between Ric Moore and John Manifold, Poetry Editor of The Realist, about Ric Moore's poetry submissions.

Includes text of speech by Tom Burns on Jim Cairns, 1982 ; 3 poems by John Manifold ;and letters to Peg Penberthy at Mary Gilmore Art Gallery and Rare Books, Brisbane. Includes publicity leaflets, invitations, journals, notices of meetings, and circulars.

Contents : 'Slim's round', words J. Slim Stuart, setting J.S.M.; 'Post mortem', words Francis Adams, setting J.S.M. ;'Crime does not pay', words and music J.S.M.

Successive stages of poem written between 15-22 October 1979.

Poem written by John Manifold for members of the Armidale Summer Music School, January 1908.

Unpublished, two handwritten poems by John Manifold, undated. Accompanied by a typescript note from Kath Watson, signed, about the poems and their author, dated July 1979. Kath notes that she thought the poems were written when Manifold was serving in the British Army, somewhere in Africa.