Notebook of verse entitled 'The Rose Tree in Time’s Garden…', 1913

File

MS. Eng. poet. d. 252

Held at the Weston Library

All the poems were collected posthumously in The Old Ships. For an account of this notebook see Sherwood, pp. 216-217. Contents include:

(fols. 1-3r) an autograph title page and projected contents list, annotated with the names of periodicals in which the poems first appeared
(fols. 7-9r) fair copies in Frank Savery’s hand of 'The Gate of the Armies', Apr [19]13; 'The Old Ships', Jul 1913, New Statesman 13 Dec 1913; 'Stillness', Nov-Dec 1913
(fol. 10r) an amended autograph copy of 'The Pensive Prisoner', Apr 1914, revised Nov 1914
(fols. 11v-12) a fair copy, in Helle Flecker’s hand, of Flecker’s second version of ‘God Save the King’
(fols. 22v-30r) 'The Burial in England' copied by Helle Flecker, with (fols. 27-28) two additional leaves containing revisions in Frank Savery’s hand, amended throughout by Flecker; see Sherwood, p. 220
(fols. 30v-33r) two printed cuttings from the Sphere of ‘The old warship ablaze’ and ‘The true paradise’.

Fols. 34-52 are blank.

Dates

52 Leaves

MS. Eng. poet. d. 252

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