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Additional papers and correspondence of Eleanor Farjeon and her family
Scope & Content:
The papers were found at Eleanor Farjeon's house after the deposit of the main body of her papers, which form Add MS 83077-83196, in which papers and correspondence relating to her works and correspondence of many of the persons represented in this collection may also be found.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1870-2003
Extent:
4 series (29 files)

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Scope & Content:
Works written by Eleanor Farjeon and members of her family, with other associated papers and correspondence
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892-2000
Extent:
9 files

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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 Nurser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1892-1900
Extent:
1 file

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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; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1940-1965
Extent:
1 file

5. Add MS 88962/1/3

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'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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902
Extent:
1 volume

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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 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1953
Extent:
1 volume

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An Elephant in Arcady, by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon.
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 volume

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A Nursery in the nineties, published by Gollancz, 1935.
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935-1959
Extent:
1 volume with inserted leaves

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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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1930-2000
Extent:
1 file

10. Add MS 88962/1/8

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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 (Gollanc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884-1959
Extent:
1 file