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.
'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.
Correspondence of Benjamin Leopold Farjeon with persons other than members of his family. The great majority of letters were sent to Farjeon. It is possible that some of the letters between 1900 and 1903 may have been sent to his son Herbert.
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...