posted on 2024-04-18, 18:22authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. Part of the 'Hospital Pictures' series. After manuscript drafts in the black manuscript notebook 52.1, in which the poem is titled 'Nurses', and a draft sent in an envelope dated 17th November 1917 to Scott. Possibly written while Ivor Gurney was on a signalling course at Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).
History
Identifier
7164.jpg | IG-64-11-87.jpg
Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
Date
Nov-17
Date Created
01/11/1917
Temporal Date
30/11/1917
Spatial
Seaton Delaval, England
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 64.11.87
Repository Name
The Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository Address
Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK