Letters, cards and drawings, 1950-1984 and undated, of William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) to Margaret ‘Biddy’ Crozier and her daughters, Blake and Johanna (`Jo`); with accompanying printed matter.

Biddy Crozier occasionally wrote to poets whose work she admired, and this sometimes led to close and supportive friendships. In the words of her daughter Jo, often the poets ‘were delighted to know an intelligent woman with a spare bed in London’. A long-lasting friendship developed between the Crozier family and W.S. Graham and his wife Nessie, to which this correspondence bears witness. The letters - particularly in the early 1950s when Graham seems to have been quite reliant on Crozier - contain much discussion of his work as well as the affection, humour and flights of language which made him such a remarkable correspondent.