Softback notebook
[c. 1972]
MS Add.10038/2/5; ff. 5v–6r

The earliest traces of Czargrad among John Riley’s papers appear to be these entries in a softback notebook he was using for literary composition and general notes in the early 1970s. This opening is the first in a series of six consecutive openings given over to drafts of the second section of Part I of the poem.