MS 684 01 02 01
Reference code
MS 684 01 02 01
Title
Thomas Hardy collection: Proof sheets of 'A Call to National Service' and other poems on the war
Level
Item
Date
1914-1917
Extent & medium
1 volume
Content description
Proofs with manuscript corrections of the 1917 pamphlet featuring 'A Call to National Service' and other war poems. Bound in a single volume with related material by Sydney Cockerell.
a: 'The Song of the Soldiers' from The Times, 9 September 1917.
b: First proof titled 'For National Service / "Men Who March Away" / by Thomas Hardy". With manuscript corrections by Hardy and a change of date in the colophon. Hardy changes 'For National Service' to 'A Call to National Service'.
c: ALS from Hardy to Sydney Cockerell, dated 31 March 1917, discussing National Service in war time.
d: Second proof titled 'A Call to National Service / Before Marching and After / Men Who March Away / By Thomas Hardy'. It is marked "Rev" on the t.p. and the poems 'Before Marching and After' and 'Men Who March Away (Song of the Soldiers)' are crossed out in pencil.
e: Typescript of the poem 'Cry of the Homeless', presumably by Florence Hardy, with manuscript addition to title and one textual correction in the author's hand.
f: Third proof titled 'A Call to National Service / An Appeal to America / Cry of the Homeless / By Thomas Hardy'. With ms. corrections by Hardy.
g: ALS from Hardy to Sydney Cockerell, dated 26 September 1917.
h: 'For National Service', first appearance in The Times, 12 March 1917.
Loosely inserted:
Facsimile of the 'Before Marching and After' autograph manuscript
Reprint of an article from The Times, 20 October 1952, by Sydney Cockerell
Postcard addressed to Sydney Cockerell featuring a photograph of Hardy
'Labour and the war' address that Hardy refers to in an ALS bound in this volume.
Provenance
Proofs and other related material bound in this single volume by Sydney Cockerell. Contents list in ms. by Cockerell on first page.
Inscribed "To Winifred Hooper from Sydney Cockerell. Kew, 3 Dec, 1961" on front pastedown.
Arrangement
Bound in a single volume by Sydney Cockerell. Contents list on first page.
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