Somorjai József szerk.: Komárom – Esztergom Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 4. (Tata, 1991)

A Babits Mihály halálának 50. évfordulójára rendezett tudományos emlékülés anyaga - Kelevéz Ágnes: Az Angyalos könyvtől a Beszélgető füzetekig

approximately 7.000 letters which were written by Babits or were written to him, and they are not only documents of Babits's life, but they are important sources of the literary history and of the case-history of the first part of our century. The number of the manuscripts of the poems is 1,300, and among them there are still a lot unpublished even today. 700 manuscripts are articles and studies, and there are many translations of literary works and artistic prose. Special attention must be paid to those manuscripts which are arranged in book form or in note books. The earliest is the so-called "Angel Book", in which over 200 poems were gathered by Babits. On the pages of an independent note book he copied his drama in four acts entitled A második ének /The second song/, which appeared posthumously in 1942. At the end of his life, struggling with illness, Babits returns to the form of writing on bonded pages in book form. The shaking documents of the last period are the "Talking Notebooks". The so-called "School Notebook" can be connected with this, and it contains poems, fragments, aphorisms and the variants of Jónás könyve /Jonahs Book/. The collection from the "Angel Book" to the "Talking Notebooks" comprehends a poetical life-work. 19