We are always truly grateful when poets approach us to help care for and preserve their own archives, and last month we had a truly exciting donation which you get to hear about first. Robert John Griffiths Johnson (1912 – 1987) was a friend of W H Auden and also a regional director of what became the Arts Council when it was first set up after WW2. He was involved in the foundation of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival with Benjamin Britten and went on to establish the John Johnson Literary Agency in 1956. At some point Robert (John) Johnson was presented with, or acquired, this fantastic collection of poetry. It was recorded in 1946 and includes readings by T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis Mac Niece and Stephen Spender, with additional readings by David Peel and an introduction by Walter de la Mare.