Shelfmark
MS 946
Title
Edward Marsh's little book.
Varying form of title
Other title: Slipcase title: Manuscript album
Varying form of title
Other title: Eddie Marsh's little book
Publication, distribution, etc.
[England], 1911-1982.
Physical description
1 volume (94 leaves) : paper ; 18 x 14 cm.
Note
Volume of autograph poems collected by Edward Marsh in a sixpenny notebook given to him by Lady Diana Manners at Christmas 1911.
Note
Contributions written between 1911 and 1953 (date from leather case; final dated poem dated 1946); with final inscription added by Lady Diana Cooper (née Manners) in 1982 at the request of her nephew Sir Martin Charteris, Provost of Eton.
Note
Contributors include: J. M. Barrie, Max Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Blunden, Robert Bridges, Rupert Brooke, G. K. Chesterton, Edward Gordon Craig, Cecil Day Lewis, Walter de la Mare, Christopher Fry, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, John Masefield, Alice Meynell, A.A. Milne, Vita Sackville-West, Siegfried Sassoon, Edith Wharton, and W. B. Yeats.
Note
Postcard from Siegfried Sassoon tipped inside retained original card cover describing the visit to Thomas Hardy in 1918 when Sassoon asked Hardy to inscribe a poem in Marsh's book.
Note
Includes tipped-in signed woodcut by Edward Gordon Craig on p. 157.
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Signature of Robert Bridges is pasted in on inscribed leaf tipped in after p. 2.
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Watercolour painting of a sailing ship to Lady Diana Manners on original front cover of notebook.
Note
Inscribed to "Eddie [Marsh] from Diana [Manners], 1911".
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Inscription of Edward Marsh, 5 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn.
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Index of names on final leaves.
Note
Facsimile available: Edward Marsh's little book : reproduced in facsimile / introduced by John Julius Norwich ; edited by Michael Meredith. Eton: Eton College, 1990.
Note
Purchased for Eton College School Library in 1974. Transferred to Eton College Library in 1995.
Citation/references note
Challenge and change, 62
Binding
Rebound for Edward Marsh by Douglas Cockerell, retaining original covers, in brown goatskin with gold-ruled border and inner frame on covers and in spine compartments;
Binding
Housed in brown calf clamshell box tooled to match with gold-ruled border and inner frame on covers and spine with spine title "Manuscript album ... 1911-1953", lined in yellow-green velvet; with binder's stamp of R. L. Day.
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Cockerell, Douglas Bennett, 1870 - 1915 bookbinder.
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Cooper, Diana, 1892 - 1986 Lady associated name.
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Charteris, Martin Sir associated name.
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Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860 - 1937 inscriber.
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Beerbohm, Max, 1872 - 1956 inscriber.
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Belloc, Hilaire, 1870 - 1953 inscriber.
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Blunden, Edmund, 1896 - 1974 inscriber.
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Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844 - 1930 inscriber.
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Brooke, Rupert, 1887 - 1915 inscriber.
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Chesterton, G. K., 1874 - 1936 inscriber.
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Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 inscriber.
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Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904 - 1972 inscriber.
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De la Mare, Walter, 1873 - 1956 inscriber.
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Fry, Christopher, 1907 - 2005 inscriber.
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Graves, Robert, 1895 - 1985 inscriber.
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840 - 1928 inscriber.
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Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859 - 1936 inscriber.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865 - 1936 inscriber.
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885 - 1930 inscriber.
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Lawrence, T. E., 1888 - 1935 inscriber.
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Masefield, John, 1878 - 1967 inscriber.
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Meynell, Alice, 1847 - 1922 inscriber.
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Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882 - 1956 inscriber.
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Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892 - 1962 inscriber.
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Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886 - 1967 inscriber.
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Wharton, Edith, 1862 - 1937 inscriber.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865 - 1939 inscriber.
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England.
Identifier
B49357