i) Autograph manuscript notebook, entitled "poems in rough 1988" on the upper cover, containing draft poems in blue, black, and red fibre-tip, with titles including "Why Wait?", "Punks at the Parthenon", "Beziers Lines", "A Blue light at dusk", and "for Cunegonde at night", 28 pages, plus blanks, in a lined exercise book, 8vo, green wrappers, four leaves loose
ii) Autograph manuscript notebook, containing draft poems and prose fragments, in black and red fibre-tip, written in a somewhat shaky hand, with titles including "A Song for Cunegonde" and "A keepsake", 15 pages, plus blanks, with a typescript leaf and also a letter loosely inserted, c.1988-90, "Livre D'Or" notebook, 8vo, black leather
iii) File labelled "Unpublished Poetry" containing poetry on c.62 loose sheets, a mixture of autograph manuscript (16 pages), typescript (c.10 pages corrected), and copies, including poems in French and Greek, 1930s-1980s

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The Livre D'Or notebook was Durrell's final notebook, which he was using at the time of his death in November 1990.