Tambimuttu  was a Ceylonese poet best known in England and America as a poetry editor. His full name was Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu....

Found a Billy Childish  (and Sexton Ming ) broadsheet listing 24 books from their Phyroid Press 1978 - 1982. It gives a useful bibliograp...

A correspondence on Zeppelins in the letters column of the Times Literary Supplement  prompted a visit to a local Suffolk church where 1...

Found -- this newspaper cutting on the Loch Ness Monster. It is a letter from the poet Herbert Palmer (cited in an earlier Jot  when he was ...

When I read the caption stuck on the back of this press photo of a certain Otto Kemmerich I was a bit taken aback, to say the least. Acc...

Few, if any, devotees of the legendary TV show and films are likely to grant the American novelist, poet and playwright Alfred Levinson ev...

Found - a press-cutting of a letter written to the British medical magazine Pulse (' at the heart of General Practice since 1960....

  Co-editors Anthony Dickins and Tambimuttu, who Geoffrey Grigson appropriately nicknamed ‘Tutti-Frutti’, made an unusual choice when the...

Found in one of our old catalogues this curious satirical work by Martin Geldart  describing the hell of his undergraduate years at Balliol...

Found - this enigmatic pair of pictures in a 1980s Japanese book on English literature. The book was in a box of foreign language books ...

Hope Mirrlees. Paris.  (Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Richmond 1919-1920) The rediscovery of the Scottish writer ...

It is a fact that many signposts were temporarily removed, especially in rural areas, during the Second World War, and that countrymen w...

Found in a copy of Preface to Film (Film Drama Limited, London  1954) this statement by Charlie (Charles) Chaplin.  An interesting a...

A few last stray tales of strange house calls, some straining belief…  A dealer is called to a house full of books in North London. When...

Found in the massive and unending Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction -a  Gerald Verner  thriller  The Ghost Man  (Wright and Brown,...