What else did Dylan write at South Leigh?
What else did Dylan work on at South Leigh, besides Under Milk Wood? It’s a difficult question, because we mostly know only what he wrote and published. But there are also those pieces that he started but didn’t finish, and those that he finished but were not published, and those that he worked on in South Leigh, such as Under Milk Wood and Rebecca’s Daughters, that were published or screened much later.
Poems: none identified. In Country Sleep was published whilst Dylan was in South Leigh, but it had been mostly written in Italy.
Stories: Conversation about Christmas in Picture Post, December 27 1947.
Radio scripts: The English Festival of Spoken Poetry, which the BBC broadcast on July 30 1948. Dylan also worked, with others, on the scripts for two Country Magazine programmes broadcast on February 8 1948 and June 13 1948.
Film scripts: The Shadowless Man (with Margaret Taylor), Three Weird Sisters, No Room at the Inn (with Ian Foxwell), The Beach of Falesa, Rebecca’s Daughters and Me and My Bike (unfinished).
Other: Prose Introduction to An Exhibition of Work by Mervyn Levy, Swindon: The Arts Centre, 1948.
...and the bonfires: Both Bill Green and Dosh Murray describe in their interviews how some of Dylan's papers went up in smoke:
"...then they had this house, the Manor, which is across the fields and when he moved all his goods and papers, I went down with the car and helped them move it all down to the Manor House. And on this occasion he gave me a lot of papers that hadn’t been published...he put it all into a box and say “Here you are Bill, you can have this.” Of course, I brought it home and it was in the shed for a very, very long time, and I thought, well, this is just a lot of rubbish, so I took it up the garden and just put a match to it."
"...he used to talk to my aunt – he wrote us our Christmas play...but unfortunately, when my aunt moved house...her two sisters came, and they must have burnt it on a bonfire...it would have been priceless, wouldn’t it?"