posted on 2024-04-18, 18:22authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand with Ivor Gurney's corrections in pencil. Manuscript included in a letter of 31st July 1917 to Scott. Another draft exists in the 'Canon' manuscript exercise book 52.5. The poem was published in 'The Westminster Gazette' in June 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
History
Identifier
7123.jpg | IG-64-11-47.jpg
Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
Date
Jul-17
Date Created
01/07/1917
Temporal Date
31/07/1917
Spatial
Buire-au-Bois, France
Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Format
Pen
Type
Poem
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Rights
The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives / The Ivor Gurney Estate
Collection ID
Papers of Ivor Gurney 64.11.47
Repository Name
The Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository Address
Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK