Foolscap three quarter-bound notebook, circa 1926

File — Box: 2

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Notebooks containing drafts and poetry encompassing a range of topics as well as printing and binding styles. Works written back to front are noted as "reversed". Contents listed at the item level are not exhaustive.

Dates

Creation: circa 1926

Creator

From the Collection: Gathorne-Hardy, Robert, 1902-1973 (Person)

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Bulk of materials in English with some entries in Italian.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research under the terms of the NIU Rare Books and Special Collections.

Full Extent

1 items : (Blue cloth and red leather three quarter-bound with marbled end papers, and red, green, and blue wide comb pattern marbled edges. "Cash Book" inscribed on spine). ; Dimensions: 21.6 x 34.3 cm.

Additional Description

Contents Note

Front: Earliest version of the Labrador excursion (46 pages); "Hungerford Bridge" poem (3 pages); untitled poem; notes on Catullus (5 pages); Sverris and Kristni sagas (35 pages).

Reversed: Draft essay on Thomas Burnett (10 pages); typescript of untitled essay (4 pages); article "The case of John Sayer" (7 pages); introductory essay on Icelandic sagas (10 pages); Catullus poetry translations (4 pages).