Top of front cover: The following wording in Battiss' handwriting:

Walter Battiss (signature). c/o Alitalia.

[and some additional script]

Underside of front cover:

1 Sketch. 14 Drawings. GREECE. 1966. [the sketch is missing]. See CMD 1711-1724.

The back cover was a similar sized piece of cardboard labelled:

Mr Filippo - Ilias Riskas, Patission 322, Athens 902, GREECE. [Lower on the board is the word "Lilly"].

There are a number of blank sheets of paper.

The final sheet has this poem:

Memory of HYDRA

And say,

There is in that

sea an island, a

pyramid above the

blue wet, washed

clean with the scents

and oils of small

flowers that in their

fading heard small bird;

but no gazelle inhabited

the avenues of stones

and corridors of rocks

& sometimes the old voice

of man weary from the

heights climbed and the

sun's temper. Faded over

the fading flowers and

fashioned a TE DEUM

of a minor misery.

And say, the water colour of

the sea is oltremarino [ultramarine]

and viridian and

pure and meant for

swimmers clean limbed as

unglazed pots from

the first firing of

the potter's kiln

and cooled slowly

with minor cracks.

And ask:

How could passion

be there in that island

except man make it?

And when made,

that passion be

of a distilled order

non-primitive.

If there is a classical

passion this's it

And the

responsibility

to concede to

the demand

of its existence

is

yours and mine.