SPS Archive – Ipswich Records Office

An archive of historic SPS materials is held at Ipswich Records Office under Deposit No. IP/16480 (GC820).

The contents of the archive are as follows:

Schedule

Suffolk Poetry Society 20th century

Folder of Minutes of Annual General Meetings, 1996-2011 and Chairman reports, 1996, 1981
Folder of SPS Committee Meeting Minutes, 1998-2007
Copy of draft Constitution circulated for comment, 1996
Copy of Constitution (final draft after consultation?), and

Crabbe Anthologies, 1992-2007 (missing 1998)

Folder containing 95-page document called ‘The Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition’ containing all 1st Prize-winners, their poems and the adjudicators since the competition was first awarded in 1955.
SPS Crabbe Poetry Comp 2009 Adjudicators report

One blue Rexel folder containing 20 double-sided see through wallets:

1 – Three newspaper cuttings of club origins and 2x one poem
2 – One letter from H Hudson
3 – Newspaper cutting titled Pribbles and Prabbles
4 – Letter to Mrs Pickett from Mr H Hudson
5 – Photo of Mrs E M Picket and two empty envelopes
6 – Suffolk Poetry Club Members List Jan 1933
7 – Newspaper cutting re recital of Suffolk Poetry Club, lpswich
8/9 – Blank
10/11 – Programme for Suffolk Poetry Club Recital Sat 11.3.39
12/13 – Photocopy of the same as 10/11
14 – Blank
15 – Two typed copies of a typed poem called Apologia, one bearing the name Francis Engleheart
16 – Newspaper cutting re Robert Bums
17 – Newspaper cuttings re Edward FitzGerald
18 – Newspaper cuttings re Edward FitzGerald
19 – Newspaper cuttings re Ezra Pound
20 – Newspaper cuttings re ‘Coghill’s Dream’
21 – Notes re Geoffrey Chaucer and Hadﬁeld’s Christmas
22 – Some notes about Francis Engleheart and a leaﬂet about Writers On Tour dated 1978
23 – Three newspaper articles about lpswich Art Scene
24 – Three more newspaper articles about lpswich Art Scene
25 – A letter dated 27.8.1983 re a Reading by John Heath-Stubbs
26 – 2 Newspaper articles 1 re Hardiman Scott, 2 re Stefanie Fone
27 – Newspaper cutting re The Poet’s Gift
28 – 2 Newspaper cuttings – lsobel Trilling winning Crabbe 1981, and leaflet re Patterns in Poetry by Carol Morgan
29 – Newspaper cuttings and copy of Hugh McKinley’s Memorial Service
30 – Letter from The Prior to Miss Biggs re Rowley Family
31 – Newspaper cutting re Hardiman Scott and Isobel Trilling
32 – Photocopy articles from S African papers reviewing R N Currey’s book Vinnicombe’s Trek
33 – Leaflet re King’s Lynn and poem by R N Currey
34 – Part of letter unsigned but presumed by R N Currey
35 – Photocopy of Contemp Poets 6th ed 1996 feat R N Currey
36 – Newspaper cutting 1997 Crabbe Winners + winning poem
37 – 2 Newspaper cuttings re Hardiman Scott A f
38 – Leaflet for book Suffolk – A Celebration
39 – A letter containing a long poem about George Crabbe
40 – A stencil for SPS (crab/laurel) and a Farewell to Diana
Folder of 50 typed poems by the author Mrs E M Pickett, (removed from Brown Temple Bar Loose Leaf Book )

Black 2-ring binder containing:

Programmes for the Suffolk Poetry Society, 1979-2007 (with gaps)
Working notes re programmes for :- 1997-2004
List of SPS members at 16.4.1999, and 20.9.2003
Newsletters – various
Letter, 1984
SPS News, 1983

Schubertiad 2008, 2009, 2010 printed anthologies of poems and CD’s for all three
Jenny Joseph CD and track-list re event 10.8.1997
Folder of ephemeral material including;
Sudbury Café News – programme 2012
Crabbe Competition entry form 2012
SPS programme 2011

Leaflet re Schubertiad programme 2007
Letter from Henry Engleheart about his mother, Filumena
Leaflet re Veterans Day 27.6.2007, supported by SPS
Two leaflets about Poems on the Underground
A Tribute to Francis Engleheart by SPS dated 7,6,1964
A ring bound account of sculpture by Thomas Thurlow
Papers re Elizabeth Jennings
Draft biography on John Keats
First meeting minutes of SPS Woodbridge Group 26.11.??
Brief newsletter re library 8.1998
A note re RN Currey 90th birthday.

Folder of ephemeral material including;
Letter re retirement of Kate Dell after 21 years as Hon Sec, June 1980
Envelope containing info on SPS support for Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
Photocopy, unsigned and undated of SPS Constitution
SPS photo of Robert Greacen
SPS report on 1984 programme of events
Envelope with sundry papers on The Poets Gift – SPS book
Photographs re Children’s Poetry Comp and Hardiman Scott Cup
Photograph of SPS Garden Party 1999
Sundry underexposed negatives

Draft Poetry Anglia document Dec 2010 by Fred Ellis
Large white envelope with details of launch of The Poets Gift
White envelope details of events, including instructions as to how to publicise the Crabbe.