Correction Poet John Cornford was Darwin’s great grandson, not Darwin’s grandson as stated in Sofia 85.
SoF member Bruce Nightingale wrote to ask where he could get hold of more of John Cornford’s poems and told the Editor that the poet’s son James Cornford ‘is current chairman of the Dartington Hall Trust and achieving a great deal’.
The poems are in print in John Cornford:
A Memoir edited by Pat Sloan (first published by Borderline Press, Dunfermline 1938), available from the Marx Memorial Library shop, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU, (0207 253 1485) at £5 plus p&p. www.marx-memorial-library.