Here are a few more notes about our Museum visit with regard to C. Fox Smith:

We now have a better photo of Cicely as a young woman, and one of her as a girl of ten or so.

We also found one likely unpublished poem of the "Billy Magee family" titled "A Meeting" which starts "In from the sea, Lone as could be, Who should I meet but Billy Magee" which doesn't seem to correlate with our existing inventory.

There were also some interesting correspondence (not as much as I would like) and many more reviews (some very interesting) and copies of short stories that were published in newspapers.

There were no manuscripts of poems on the scale of what Danny Macleod has. I was hoping for more.

We didn't go through every folder they had but probably sifted through the ones that I am primarily interested in. The other folders are primarily research materials such as ship's logs, biographical notes relating to various mariners, and a few other miscallaneous things.

No journals or diaries. Alas!

The staff at the Museum were very helpful but if you want to look at something it takes several business days for them to retrieve it from their off-site warehouse. One searches their inventory of files on-line in advance. We checked out:

FXM/14, FXM/16, FXM/17, FXM/19 and FXM/20

I was working with shantysinger Chris Roche. So we went over everything twice and both of us photographed the more interesting bits.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble