The Bridson mss., 1934-1980, consists of correspondence and writings of Douglas Geoffrey Bridson, producer and author. The correspondents in the collection are chiefly writers whom Bridson recorded for broadcast during his career. Writings include original radio scripts by D.G. Bridson, Norman Cameron, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Kenneth Rexroth, as well as Bridson's manuscript for his autobiography Prospero and Ariel: The Rise and Fall of Radio (London: Victor Gollancz, 1971). A group of 186 "Listener reports" (later called: Audience research reports) for programs written or produced by Bridson, 1944-1969, a typescript chronological list of all Bridson's productions, Bridson's daily desk diaries, 1950-1980, and five scrapbook volumes of press clippings, 1934-1972, complete the collection.

Note on Indexing Term - "Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972": There is a separate folder of correspondence with Pound. Also included is Four Steps an original radio script written by Pound which was broadcast in 1958 and Letters to a Friend a selection from Pound letters to Richard Aldington, edited by Pound in 1955 but never broadcast.