Song of the soldiers
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Type of record: Book
Title: Song of the soldiers
Classmark: Manuscripts BC MS 20c Shorter
Creator(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
Additional creator(s): Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926) (Other)
Related people: Shorter, Clement King
Publisher: Privately printed
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): [1914]
Language: English
Size and medium: [6] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/375459
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017284059705181
Description
"First published in 'The Times', September 9, 1914."
One of 12 copies issued by Clement Shorter for private distribution.
Additional description
Bound with 11 other publications in volume lettered on spine A Bookman's Hobby: Series I (item 6 in the Shorter Collection). All booklets bound in their original wrappers.. Volume contents: 1. Hardy, T.: Song of the soldiers. 1914. Includes a letter from Hardy to Edward Clodd (29.6.1919 birthday greetings to Clodd pessimistic about peace settlement) and a letter from Shorter to Clodd (20.9.1917 sending him this booklet) inserted in, and a poem In Time of Slaughter by Hardy pasted in from 'Spectator' (19 Aug 1916) on the back of t.p. - - 2. Hardy, T.: Letters on the war. 1914. - - 3. Hardy, T.: The dynasts: the prologue and epilogue. 1914. Includes a letter from Hardy to Clodd (8.4.1908 declining a dinner invitation in support of the Rationalist movement, which he does however support he is advising the local rector on acting some scenes from The Dynasts ) inserted in. -- 4. Dobson, A.: Poems on the war. 1915. - - 5. Sigerson Shorter, D.: Comfort the women: a prayer in time
of war. 1915. - - 6. Stevenson, R.L.: Letters to an editor. 1914. - - 7. Borrow, G.: George Borrow in Vienna: an unpublished letter. 1915. - - 8. Carlyle, T.: Letter to a young man. 1915. - - 9. Sidgwick, F.: When my shop comes in. 1905. - - 10. Flecker, J.E.: The burial in England. 1915. - - 11. Flecker, J.E.: God save the king. 1915. - - 12. Johnson, S.: Some unpublished letters. 1915.
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