Verse, [before 1909]-1968

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Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 279

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Comprises (note: there is no file 7):

folder 1 (fols. 1-2) earliest example of her attempts at verse, recounting a journey with her parents and brother Edgar to the continent via Zeebrugge, [before 1909]
folder 2 (fols. 1-10) 'The Wooing of A-Thel: an epic', with some sketches of heads and figures in costume, c. 1909
item 3 (fols. 1-94) notebook of poems written while at school [here, she adds Needell, her grandmother's name, to her own; the sole instance of its adoption], 1909-1912
folder 4 (fols. 1-81) early verse, written at school, St. Hugh's College, and while at Sheffield University, 1909-c. 1920
folder 5 (fols. 1-55) poems, some mere fragments, c. 1913-early 1920s
folder 6 (fols. 1-20) 'Maiden Errant: a romantic story in verse', begun in Sheffield after a visit to Somaliland, c. 1922-1941
folder 8 (fols. 1-14) verses written in Somaliland and Sudan, 1922, n.d.
folder 9 (fols. 1-3) a valentine from R.G. Abercrombie, her reply, and 'To Lucasta: on Going to the Wars', copied and sent to her by an admirer, c. 1924
folder 10 (fols. 1-24) poems written in Poland and after, 1927-mid-1930s
folder 11 (fols. 1-9) later poems, 1964-c. 1966
folder 12 (fols. 1-43) reflections on religion and her inner life, 1916-1968.

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MSS. Perham 279

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