Four typewritten poems from the poet's "Villages" series, with annotations by the poet's hand & each signed on the reverse, plus an accompanying signed letter. The poems are: "Berwick St John" (Wiltshire); "Ebbesbourne Wake!" (Wiltshire); Priddy" (Somerset); & "Gravestone in Watton" (Norfolk). John Miles’ (Maurice) Carpenter was a working-class left-wing poet, who was educated at Birkbeck. Carpenter wrote for the Young Communist League cultural magazine, ‘Alive!’ In 1939-40. A friend of Edith Sitwell, he worked at Archer’s bookshop in Parton Street, and published several published works, including the volume of poetry, `The Tall Interpreter’, published in the late 1940s, a short story called ‘Night Shift – the Machine Stops’ in 1943, and an autobiographical book called ‘A Rebel in the Thirties’. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he provided lectures at the post-war LCC council estate of South Oxhey, midway between Harrow and Watford . it was then perceived as a left-wing hot-spot and was known in the local paper as `cockney utopia’ and ‘little Moscow’! The Communist Party and YCL held many meetings there in early 1950s that attracted large numbers.