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 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.

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

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.

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.

Papers relating to the Communist Arts Group, Shipping Crisis Resistance Committee and Maritime Workers' issues. Material relating to Afro-American musician and activist Paul Robeson and the Victoria Street, Potts Point, Sydney Green bans and protests against development. Both of these became subjects of literary works by Wills. The papers contain manuscripts and typescripts (Including by John Manifold), correspondence, ephemera.

Literary manuscripts, articles, publications, a small amount of correspondence.

Typescript poem (2 l.)

Typescript; summarises and reviews the publication 'Six Sonnets on Human Ecology' by J. S. Manifold, published 1974.

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