Flame of Life by Lady Wentworth (London: John Murray, 1930)
Scope & Content:
Annotated by Wentworth and with a dedication to Christabel Draper. Inserted in an envelope pasted inside the front cover are: a review from the Cambridge Review; a list by Wentworth of which poems are ‘poems of imagination’ and which are ‘poems of experience’; a note from Wentworth to Draper exp...
Contains manuscript and typewritten verse by Wentworth, some with explanatory annotations by Wentworth and some with annotations by Christabel Draper. Some verse is grouped together under headings of ‘light verse’, ‘serious verse’, and ‘sporting verse’, with an index. For an additional (card) in...
Contains typewritten, annotated copies of ‘The Way of the Garden of Desolation’ and ‘Lady Wentworth’s Prayer’, extracts from Wentworth’s diary covering 1897-1900, extracts from a typescript, presumably intended for use in a book, published articles on Arabian horses, and a transcript of ‘The Aut...