MS 684 01 01 04

MS 684 01 01 04

Thomas Hardy collection: Autograph manuscripts of three poems, with related material, written for Sydney Cockerell

Item

[1912-1928]

1 volume

Bound volume of three autograph manuscripts by Hardy, with related material: a: Autograph manuscript of 'When I Set Out For Lyonnesse'. Fair copy signed in black ink, with autograph revisions in two lines, subscribed "(to. S.C.C.)". The revisions do not appear until his Selected Poems was published in 1916. b: Autograph manuscript of 'Proud Songster'. Written in black ink with autograph revisions in 5 lines. 1 page, 4to. The poem was first printed in the Daily Telegraph on 9 April 1928 and then published in Winter Words (1928). c: Autograph manuscript of 'Childhood Among the Ferns'. Written in black ink with autograph revisions in the last line. 1 page, 4to. The poem was first printed in the Daily Telegraph on 29 March 1928 and then published in Winter Words (1928). d: ALS from Hardy to Sydney Cockerell. 4 pages, 8vo, 15 January 1917. e: Part of a proof of "England to Germany" etc, a pamphlet of four of Hardy's war poems printed in 1917, with emendations in three lines of the incomplete 'I Met A Man' in the hand of Sydney Cockerell. Cockerell has also noted "This to come last" above 'A New Year's Eve in War Time'.

Autograph manuscripts written for Sydney Cockerell. Bound in red morocco gilt in black cloth slipcase, signed on front end-paper "Sydney C. Cockerell, Cambridge", with affixed printed explanatory notes annotated by Cockerell and Frederick Adams. Loosely inserted printed ticket states that this volume was exhibit No. 440 in the Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books in 1951.

Manuscripts and ALS pasted into bound vol. by Sydney Cockerell.