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Poem of the Month Club, poems issued
1970-1972
Collection of printed poems on individual sheets signed by their authors. Included here are the first and second folios issued by the club with poems by: (First Folio) Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, C. ...
Mortimer Collins, poems
Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)
c.1860-1876
Comprises two poems: (1) My thrush; (2) By the fountain
Walter Pater, poems
Pater, Walter (1839-1894)
1907
Transcripts of poems in manuscript: 'Cassandra' ('Like the stricken hart forsaken'), annotated below stanza 14 (referring to the original manuscript): 'Stanzas 12, 13 & 14 are in a female hand. Proba...
Robert Browning, holograph poems
Browning, Robert (1782-1866)
c.1820-1866
Vol.1: The anatomical parish -- Vol.2: The enquiry -- Vol.3: The journey to London -- Vol.4: Law -- Vol.5: The legacy -- Vol.6: The medium's ball -- Vol.7: The medium's progress -- Vol.8: The murder -...
Ben Turner - Manuscript Poems
1937
Manuscript and typescript copies of 12 of Ben Turner's poems (held in one gold box). The volume also includes a manuscript copy of a letter to Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, dated 2nd November 1937, concerni...
John Betjeman, autograph manuscripts and poems, together with typed drafts of poems and typed letters
Betjeman, John (1906-1984)
c.1966-1980
Comprises the following items: (1) Autograph manuscript drafts of Betjeman's poems 'Monody on the death of Aldersgate Street Station', 'Thoughts on 'The diary of a nobody'', and 'Felixstowe or The las...
Felicia Hemans, Music of yesterday: a poem
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne
c.1810-1835
Finely bound in blue with leather spine embossed with gilt lettering as follows: MRS. HEMANS. MS. - MUSIC OF YESTERDAY. Includes a full transcription of the manuscript.
Thomas Kibble Hervey, The nun, a poem
Hervey, Thomas Kibble (1799-1859)
c. 1850
Comprises the apparently original holograph manuscript of Hervey's poem 'The nun'. The bound volume includes a biography of Hervey which is somewhat fuller than that found in the Dictionary of Nationa...
Edmund Blunden, autograph manuscript poems
Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)
c.1930-1958
Comprises ten autograph manuscript poems by Edmund Blunden, partly dated between ca. 1930 and 1958. All but one bear the author's signature. Most of them are working copies with many revisions to the ...
Florence Peacock, original holograph manuscripts of poems
Peacock, Florence
c.1895-1896
Comprises the following poems:-(1) 'The charm of the rue'; (2) 'Living though the date be old'; (3) 'A stony way'; (4) 'Though your sins be as scarlet...', Isaiah 1.18; (5) 'A northern sailor'; (6) 'T...
Charles Whitehead, The Solitary: a poem, in three parts
Whitehead, Charles (1804-1862)
1831
Manuscript copy, possibly in Whitehead's hand, of his long meditative poem "The Solitary", which was first published in 1831.
Dom Moraes, autograph manuscript notebook of poems
Moraes, Dom
1963
Small collection of archival material relating to Moraes. The collection includes an autograph manuscript notebook and a file of correspondence, drafts, notes and related material. 1) Manuscript not...