Box 58

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A single sheet of paper containing a manuscript draft of two lyric poems by Canadian poet Bliss Carman, later to be published in his Pipes of Pan Volume III, Songs of the Sea Children (1904). The text includes the entirety of poem XCVIII (“Do you know the pull of the wind on the sea?”), followed by Carman’s signature. Beneath this is the final stanza of poem CXVIII (“Along the faint horizon”). Undated.

Scope and Contents Correspondence in the hand of American philologist and folklorist Francis James Child. One 4-page letter, undated, addressed to lawyer Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch thanking him for a copy of his book on Surnames, generally praising the volume, and offering some additional examples of names derived from trades. A second letter to an unidentified recipient is mounted on a piece of paper alongside a printed portrait of Child and his signature. The contents pertain to the Chaucer Society, a...

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Three letters in the hand of English antiquarian and curator Sir Sydney Cockerell. Two, both dated to October 1929, are written to Egyptologist Sir Henry Thompson, a fellow at University College, London, and pertain to the business of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, where Cockerell was director. The third letter, dated 1911, is addressed to “My dear Rowley”, and is personal in nature.

Scope and Contents Correspondence in the hand of British composer and musicologist Hugh Davies, written to his friend and sometime collaborator the visual artist John Furnival (1933-2020). The contents are largely personal, but occasionally refer to ongoing projects including Davies’ musical collective Gentle Fire and one of his “shozyg” instrument experiments called “Lazy Garlic”, a leather-bound book cover that he laments “isn’t going to be done on June 30th. I know it would have enlivened the programme a...

Scope and Contents A manuscript of an unpublished short story by Welsh writer Rhys Davies, “Shadrach the Dwl”, 20 pages in six short chapters, describing the relationship between a 12-year-old boy and a hermit who lives in the hills outside his Welsh village. The manuscript is accompanied by an envelope addressed to Charles Lahr (1885-1971), the German-born London bookseller, publisher, and anarchist. The envelope is stamped 1929. Also included is a letter in Davies’ hand addressed “Dear Mr Beaumont” and dated...

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Four letters in the hand of English writer Warwick Deeping. Three of them, dated between 1933 and 1942, are addressed to a “Dear Newman” and pertain largely to personal matters, including one alluding to a conflict regarding his friend’s forthcoming book. The fourth letter is undated and addressed simply “Dear old man”, but may also have been intended for Newman.

Scope and Contents A small collection of correspondence related to American novelist John Dos Passos. The earliest, dated 1933, is a typed letter from Funk & Wagnalls editor Frank Horace Vizetelly (1864-1938) asking for confirmation of the pronunciation of Dos Passos’ name for a column in “The Literary Digest” – which Dos Passos has dutifully annotated and initialed. The second letter is dated 1945, and contains a note on Hotel Lafayette letterhead responding to a request for an autograph from a Mr....

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A single page in three pieces containing what appears to be part of a manuscript draft of the novel Helen (1834) by Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth, with corrections. Accompanied by a small paper fragment from a letter with Edgeworth’s signature.

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A deed, dated January 1st 1700, describing the articles of agreement between Jeremiah Fountaine of Esholt and Edmund Barker of Leeds regarding the purchase of a parcel of land. The document is stamped, signed and notarized by a number of witnesses. Written in ink in a somewhat idiosyncratic hand on a folio-sized sheet of paper.

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A typed letter of three pages signed by British philosopher and priest Frank Harold Cleobury. Dated 25th September 1948 and addressed to a Mr. Quillet, the contents respond to “the points you raise” on Pauline and Synoptic Christology. A handwritten note beneath the signature suggests Quillet should seek out Cleobury’s book if he is “interested in philosophy + rational theology.”