Ffeil Boxes 1-3. - Work books, diaries and notes,

Twenty-two notebooks used as work books and diaries including drafts of Douglas Houston's poems later published in With the offal eaters (Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1986) (nos 1-9) and The hunters in the snow (Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1994) (nos 10-14); notes relating to his doctoral thesis 'Myths of place: the importance of landscapes in the poetries of W.H. Auden & Seamus Heaney' (Hull, 1986) (nos 15-16); and others (nos 17-22), including diary entries for 1984 (no. 17), 1986 (no. 18) and 1992 (nos 19-20).