66020: Butchers and Tombs

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posted on 2024-04-18, 18:22 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. No manuscript survives. Included in a set entitled 'Memoires of Honour'. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).

History

Identifier

6270_1.jpg | IG-21A-71.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

September 1922 - 1925

Date Created

01/09/1922

Temporal Date

31/12/1925

Spatial

Gloucester or Dartford, England

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives / The Ivor Gurney Estate

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 21a.71

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK