An Elephant in Arcady, by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon.
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Orchestra score published by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, [1938] and stamped ‘the property of the British broadcasting corporation, with a few pencil notes on the contents page.
'Poems by Eleanor Farjeon, with illustrations by the author, London, 1902’. A bound volume of typewritten poems, with autograph drawings presented by Eleanor Farjeon to her father at Christmas 1902.
Early prose works by Eleanor Farjeon. An early fairy tale ‘The Dewdrop’ typed by her father; an early play ‘Snow-White’; a poem written at the age of 11 ‘To chaos’, ‘My travels, and what I found there’, all these dictated to her father and typed by him, and the last two published in her A Nursery in...
A Nursery in the nineties, published by Gollancz, 1935.
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With the galley proofs of the postscript written in 1959 inserted. The copy presented by Eleanor Farjeon to her brother Harry on 21 Oct 1935, with a further inscription by Eleanor Farjeon of 1954 and the bookplate of Joan Frances Farjeon in the name of Joan Jefferson Farjeon.
Poetic works by Eleanor Farjeon. ‘Six green singers’, written for her brother Joseph, Christmas 1910; ‘Spite of a car’; poem beginning ‘I shall remember, love, as long’ written to George Chester Earle and typed from her autograph; ‘The first joyful mystery’, written for Denys Blakelock, 28 Sep 1953;...
Leatherbound photograph album, with a metal clasp, containing 34 photographs of members of the Farjeon family, of which two can be identified as Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, one as Harry Farjeon, there are also photographs of Tom Thorne and Miss Alice Atherton.
Prose and dramatic works by Eleanor Farjeon. Title-leaf with notes of her writings on the verso and notes, suggestion that it should be destroyed, on ‘The Tarletan triplets: a gothic romance with music, chosen from nineteenth century sources’; leaf from a play with the characters Mars and Hous; note...
Writings by Harry Farjeon, mostly typescripts. Plays: The compleat angler, En famille, Heartsease meadow, Paperwork, Principal study Novel: Superior pride Short stories: Bobbin and after, A composer, Pillikin, Sardines, Shadows before; Essays: The law of average, Why worry?, incomplete essay on the ...
Writings by Benjamin Farjeon. Stories: The Happy hour; The little umbrella girl; short essay ‘the First cigarette’; an unnamed story, beginning at f.1 but lacking the opening Diary for Jan and Feb 1884, two copies, typed by Eleanor Farjeon and published in her A Nursery in the nineties (Gollancz, 19...