The papers of Patric Dickinson, ca. 1933-1970, consist of handwritten drafts of his works, including plays, poems, translations of ancient Greek plays, and a book of non-fiction about golf that was published in 1951.
The radio works represented in the collection are plays and features that were written for broadcast on the BBC Third Programme from the 1940s to the 1960s. These include
Two verse plays written by Dickinson,
Dickinson's poetry is represented both by handwritten notebooks and loose leaf handwritten and typescript drafts. The notebook dated 1933-1936 has a note written by Dickinson in 1969 explaining that it is "my first notebook of poems, plays, ideas etc." The notebook dated 1945-1947 includes poems later published in
The play translations fall into two categories. The two translations of Plautus and the translation of
Purchase, 1973 (Reg. no. 5847)
Open for research
Hope Rider, 2004
Other Dickinson materials in the Ransom Center include a folder of correspondence from Cecil Day-Lewis, T.S. Eliot, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, and Edith Sitwell, which are accessible via a card catalog in the Reading Room.