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posted on 2024-05-02, 18:52 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Fourth Typescript on pink paper, title in pencil with pencil alterations, with some questions as to punctuation changes in lines 20 and 21. The pages are numbered in ink by Annie Rosenberg. In the four canceled lines 'grain' has been corrected to 'green' by Isaac Rosenberg. He was transferred to the 40th Division Works Battalion in January 1917, meaning that part of his responsibility was taking wire up to the line at night. |

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Fourth Typescript on pink paper, title in pencil with pencil alterations, with some questions as to punctuation changes in lines 20 and 21. The pages are numbered in ink by Annie Rosenberg. In the four cancelled lines 'grain' has been corrected to 'green' by Isaac Rosenberg." He was transferred to the 40th Division Works Battalion in January 1917, meaning that part of his responsibility was taking wire up to the line at night.
Page two of Typescript on pink paper containing 7 unused lines, then 48-79." Page number in ink by Annie Rosenberg, who has also inscribed the poem, 'Isaac Rosenberg / May 14. 1917 / B. E. F. France.' He was transferred to the 40th Division Works Battalion in January 1917, meaning that part of his responsibility was taking wire up to the line at night.

History

Identifier

1717.cpd | 1505.jpg | IRIWM_1_263.jpg 1506.jpg | IRIWM_1_264.jpg

Creator

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)

Date

January - May 1917

Date Created

01/01/1917

Temporal Date

31/05/1917 | 14/05/1917

Spatial

France

Source

Folio | Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Poem | Poem

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Imperial War Museum / The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate

Collection ID

IR/I/256

Repository Name

Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents

Repository Address

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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