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A selection from a 57 page bound book with watercolor drawings, pasted clippings, and autographs. Early 18th century blue morocco binding with gilt paneled sides. Pasted on flyleaf: cartoon, "A collection of poets outside the Golden Cross." (Gabriel Atkin). Dedication: "This book belongs to Roderick Meiklejohn." Contents include "28 Country Poems" by Sassoon and "Fourteen New Rhymes for Children" by Robert Graves with frontispiece and decorations drawn by Nancy Nicholson. Also contains autographs and signed manuscript poems by: Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, W. Somerset Maugham, W.H. Davies, W.S. Turner, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lytton Strachey, Henry Festing Jones, C.J. Holmes, Desmond MacCarthy, E.M. Forster, Margaret Kennedy, Robert Nichols, Ralph Hodgson, Edmund Blunden, Frank Prewett. Contains the poem "Quiet Evening," written and signed by Blunden. |

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Manuscript of poem in ink in Edmund Blunden's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a bound volume belonging to Siegfried Sassoon containing a collection of his poems and various watercolours, clippings and autographs.
Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a bound volume belonging to Sassoon containing a collection of his poems and various watercolours, clippings and autographs. The poem was published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918).
Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a bound volume belonging to Sassoon containing a collection of his poems and various watercolours, clippings and autographs. The poem was published in 'Picture-Show' (1919).
Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a bound volume belonging to Sassoon containing a collection of his poems and various watercolours, clippings and autographs. The poem was published in 'The Old Huntsman' (1917).