while returning to Sintra from Toledo after attending Holy Week ceremonies
in Seville.

The Ransom Center's collection of Roy Campbell spans the years 1920 to 1987 and
includes drafts of poems, prose works, and translations, as well as family and
other
correspondence. Also present are biographical and bibliographical material,
including published reviews and criticism and a few photographs. The collection
is
based on acquisitions from the collections of T. E. Hanley and Ellsworth and Joan
Mason, along with portions of the papers of Uys Krige and the Campbell family.
The
collection, as arranged at the Ransom Center, is in three series: I. Works,
1931-1957 (2 boxes); II. Correspondence, 1920-1987 (1 box); and III. Biographical
and Critical Materials, 1933-1979 (1 box).

The Works series contains, in the main, projects Roy Campbell worked on the last half
decade of his life while living in Sintra,Portugal. Translations of Horace's
Ars Poetica and Federico García Lorca's La Casa de Bernarda Alba--neither yet published--are
found here, along with Campbell's published versions of The
Poems of St. John of the Cross and Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. A partial manuscript of the critical work Lorca, along with the unpublished Taurine Epistles are
also present.

Drafts--often multiple drafts--of poems written in Campbells's years in Portugal are
primarily contained in the 35 exercise books found under the headings "Manuscript notebooks" and "Notebooks." Of this group, only manuscript notebook 30 appears to date
from the years before the Second World War.

The largest part of the Correspondence series is Roy Campbell's letters to his wife.
The earliest piece of this correspondence dates from 1924, but the bulk of the
letters were written during the war years when Campbell was