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1-3 |
Back Words and Fore Words: An Author's Year-Book
1893-1944: A selection, in chronological order, from the plays, poems,
and prose writings of Laurence Housman
1 item (221 p.); 25 x 20 cm
Typescript. Corrected in Housman's hand. Preface contains 5 pages in
Housman's hand
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4 |
Big Powers and Little Powers
Descript 1 item (9 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
Summary Carbon typescript. Short story, published as The great adventure
in Strange ends and discoveries, 1948
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5 |
The Bishop's Dilemma
3 items (together 39 p.) ; varying sizes
AMS. Short story (11 p.) corrected in Housman's hand
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6 |
A Brown Study: A Meditation
1 item (4 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
AMsS. Short story
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7 |
Camouflage
2 items (together 16 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
Typescript. Together with a carbon copy corrected in Housman's hand.
Short story published in Strange ends and discoveries, 1948
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8 |
"A cat had got into the palace..." [Untitled]
1 item (2 p.); 25 x 20 cm
Typescript. Untitled short story
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9 |
Changa-Ranga
2 items (together 35 p.) ; varying sizes
AMs. With extensive corrections in Housman's hand. Short story published
in Strange ends and discoveries, 1948
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| 10 |
9a |
Cornered Poets: A Book of Dramatic Dialogues
Complete AMs, enclosed in green folder, with table of contents
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9b |
Cynthia
TS, long poem, with corrections by LH. Includes list of omitted lines.
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8 |
Dead Man's Lane
2 items (together 18 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
Typescript. Short story, together with a carbon copy, both with minor
corrections in the author's hand. Published in Strange ends and discoveries,
1948
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11 |
Fall of the Sparrow: The Man of Prayer
1 item (8 p.) ; 23 x 17 cm
AMs. Short story, incomplete, with extensive corrections in the author's
hand. Published in Strange ends and discoveries, 1948
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12 |
The Finishing Touch
1 item (12 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
Typescript. Short story, heavily corrected in the author's hand. Published
in Strange ends and discoveries, 1948
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| 10 |
24-26 |
The Impregnable Family: A Twice-Told
Tale
3 items (together 234 p.) ; varying sizes
Typescript. Short story, heavily corrected in the author's hand, together
with another typescript and manuscript fragments (Folder labeled Rupert:
A Novel)
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12a |
Kings of England
TS. Paste up of series of short verses describing the kings of England.
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13 |
Maggie's Bite
1 item (6 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
AMsS. Short story, corrected in the author's hand. Published in Strange
ends and discoveries, 1948
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| 10 |
14 |
Monsieur le Secretaire
1 item (12 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
AMs. Humorous short story, written in rhyming couplets, mostly in French,
with some English lines
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15 |
The New Child's Guide to Knowledge
1 item (8 p.) ; varying sizes
AMsS. Short story, drafts and fragments. Published in 1911
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16 |
The New Dispensation
1 item (7 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
Carbon typescript. Short story, corrected in the author's hand. Published
in Strange ends and discoveries, 1948
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17 |
The Nine Points of Mrs. James
1 item (119 p.) ; 23 x 17 cm
AMsS. Short story, drafts and fragments, corrected in the author's hand
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18 |
Open the Door, Posy
1 item (12 p.) ; 20 x 16 cm
AMs. Short story, with minor corrections in the author's hand. Privately
published
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19 |
The Parting of Time
1 item (13 p.) ; 20 x 16 p
AMs. Short story, with minor corrections in the author's hand
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20 |
Possession
1 item (38 p.) ; 27 x 21 cm
Typescript. Short story
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21 |
Puss-in-Boots
3 items (together 66 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
Typescript. Short story, with minor corrections in the author's hand,
together with 2 carbon typescripts. Published in 1926
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22 |
The Return Journey
2 items (together 15 p.) ; varying sizes
Typescript. Short story, with minor corrections in the author's hand,
together with a 5 p. manuscript fragment in Housman's hand. Published
in Strange ends and discoveries, 1948
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23 |
Return of the Prodigal
1 item (7 p.) ; 25 x 20 cm
Typescript. Short story, published in Strange ends and discoveries,
1948
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23a |
The Rose: A Poem
4 items (5 p.); varying sizes
3 TLS
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27 |
Sally Forth
1 item (3 p.) 25 x 20 cm
Typescript. Short story.
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27a |
Sea Change
TS short story, published in Nash's(?); stamped with date 1935
Sept. 3
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28 |
Short Steps to Knowledge: A Book of Practical
Hints for Ideal Parents--with illustrations
1 item (8 p.) ; varying sizes
AMsS. Short story, manuscript fragments, some heavily corrected. Unpublished
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29 |
A Story That Has No End
2 items (19 p.) ; varying sizes
2 Typescripts. Short story, one with minor corrections in the author's
hand, the other a published copy, cut from a magazine perhaps.
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30-31 |
Strange Ends and Discoveries: Tales of this
World and the Next
1 item (163 p.); varying sizes
Typed printer's copy. Made up of typescripts, carbon typescripts, and
previously printed versions, many with corrections in the author's hand.
Contains all stories but one. Published in 1948
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32 |
A Suffragette Fairy Tale
1 item (34 p.); 23 x 17 cm
AMs. Play heavily corrected in the author's hand
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32a |
Summertime
ALS with AMsS poem, dated 1946 Apr. 15. Letter addresses the editor
of Time and Tide magazine and "on the chance that it may
not be too late" encloses poem manuscript.
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33 |
Uncle Tom Pudd
1 item (12 p.);
AMs. Short story.
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34 |
[Untitled Fairy Tale]
1 item (3 p.)
AMs. Short story, untitled.
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35 |
The Watchers
3 items (together 17 p.)
AMs, TS, TS fragment.
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36 |
The Weaver's Beam
1 items (12 p.)
AMsS. Short story.
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37 |
The Were Wolf
1 items (29 p.)
AMs. Short story by Clemence and Laurence Housman, in the latter's hand.
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38 |
Young John and Old John
AMs drafts and fragments of prose work
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