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1. Add MS 56331

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Add MS 56331
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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vol. I. Darwin family album; 1895-1907. A notebook containing verses, poetry games and drawings, owned by Frances Crofts Darwin, 1895 (f. i). The book was chiefly in use 1895-1901 and includes initialled verses, etc., by Frances Darwin's brother, Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895-1907
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 56331-56340

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Add MS 56331-56340
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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vols. I-X. Poetry notebooks; 1895-1957, n.d. Ten volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1895-1957
Extent:
10 items

3. Add MS 56331-56347

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Add MS 56331-56347
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CORNFORD PAPERS. The literary papers of Frances Crofts Cornford née Darwin; 1895-1960, n.d. Chiefly autograph. Partly French, German and Spanish. The papers are listed, with other BL holdings relating to Frances Cornford, in Location Register of Twentieth-Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (1988), i, pp. 210-211. For full descriptions of some of the items see Stratford, Mod. Lit. MSS., no. 49. Subsequent to the receipt of further Cornford papers in 1974, the whole collection wa...
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Frances Crofts Cornford, née Darwin; poet; wife of Francis Cornford: Poetry ENGLISH: Literary papers of Frances Crofts Cornford: 1895-1960, n.d.: Some Fr., Germ. and Span: Chiefly autograph.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:
1895-1960
Extent:
18 items

4. Add MS 56332

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Add MS 56332
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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vol. II. Notebook containing twenty poems; 1908. Autograph drafts. Partly pencil. All but two of the poems (ff. 12-12v) also occur in Add. 56333. Ten of the items were published in Poems (1910). The notebook is dedicated to the author's father 'FD from FCD', f. 1v. ff. 23. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 56333

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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vol. III. Notebook containing fifty-eight poems; 1908-1909. Autograph drafts. Partly pencil. Two items, 'Song' (f. 10) and 'Hymn to the Moon' (f. 32) are copies of items written in 1905 and circa 1899 respectively. The book is dedicated to Frances Cornford's husband, Francis M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1909
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 56334

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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vol. IV. Notebook containing forty-seven poems; 1910-1913, n.d. Autograph drafts. Partly pencil. The book is dedicated to Francis M. Cornford and was begun on 28 Feb. 1910 (f. i). A total of twenty-two poems were first collected in the following: Spring Morning (1915); Autumn Mi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1913
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 56335

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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vol. V. Notebook containing prose and verse, chiefly fragments, and memoranda; circa 1915-1917. Autograph drafts. Partly pencil. The book was used from both ends. The poems are listed in Stratford, op. cit., p. 100. ff. 18. 200 x 160mm. Limp green cloth covers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1915-1917
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 56336

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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vol. VI. Notebook containing one hundred and two poems; circa 1914-1942. Chiefly autograph drafts. Partly pencil. Some printed items are pasted in. The book was dedicated in New Year 1922, when poems dated 1920-1921 were entered (ff. 1-6). The volume was also used from the back....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1914-1942
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 56337

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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vol. VII. Notebook containing approximately seventy-five poems; circa 1945-1950, n.d. Autograph drafts. Chiefly ink, with some ball-point corrections and additions. Some printed items are pasted in. Given to Frances Cornford by Rachel and Alan Ward, Christmas 1945 (f. i). Some o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1945-1950
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 56338

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CORNFORD PAPERS. Vol. VIII. Notebook containing seventy-one poems; 1944-1953, n.d. Fair copies and autograph drafts, chiefly in ink and ball-point. Given to Frances Cornford by Stephen and Natasha Spender, Christmas 1950 (f. i). Twelve poems were published in Collected Poems (1954) and twenty-fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944-1953
Extent:
1 item