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The series consist of manuscripts, drafts, and typescripts for a Rain Song, Swimming With Turtles, Play on the Water, Going Down in History, The Only Country in the World, Kissing the Body of My Lord, For the Love of Hockey, A Dancing Star, and a variety of poems. There are book reviews for A Dancing Star, Pacific Sand, and Wrestling with Angels. The series also includes incoming and outgoing correspondence between Beardsley and various friends, fellow writers, and acquaintances. There are Beardsley’s journals and diaries that he kept from 1969 to 2015, and reviews written by Beardsley for the Times Colonist Victoria from 1979-1993. Finally, there are also poetry reading promotions and photographs.

This sub-series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Beardsley and various friends, fellow writers, and acquaintances.

letters sent between Beardsley and Earle Birney (1976, 1978), Marilyn Bowering (1980, 1981, 1990, 1991), Charles Brandt (2013), Anthony Burgess (1972)

File consists of correspondence sent between Beardsley and Marley Callaghan (1976), Elypeth Cameron (1982), and Lorna Crozier (1995)

File consists of correspondence between Beardsley and Gary Geddes (1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1996, 1997), Dana Gioia (2014), Ralph Gustafson (1975-1998)

File consists of correspondence between Beardsley and Dick Irving (1996, 1997), Dean Irving (Horne), Mark Jarman, and James Jones (1972, 1973, 1974).

File consists of Beardsley's interview with Lessing, his correspondence with her in regards to passing the interview on to a biographer, the book chapter that came as a result of the interview as well as newspaper clippings that the interview was originally published in.

File consists of correspondence between Beardsley and Charles Lillard, and contains newspaper clippings.

File consists of correspondence sent between Beardsley and Robertson Davies (1976), Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1976), James Dickey (1970),Mary Di Michelle (1982, 1983, 1987, 1988), John Dos Passos, and Mike Doyle (2008).

File consists of correspondence sent between Beardsley and Valerie Eliot (1970) and Francis Fox (1976)