Add MS 89523

Letters and postcards from Frances Cornford to Daniel George (of Jonathan Cape) regarding her translations from the French of the poems of Louis Aragon. Together with a draft Preface, tables of contents, and typed translations. Cape did not proceed with publication.

(1). Autograph letters and postcards from Cornford to George.

(i). 8 Mar 1945 (1 sheet). (ii). 15 Mar 1945 (1 sheet). (iii). 25 Jun 1945 (2 sheets). (iv). 10 Jul 1945 (franking date), postcard. (v). 15 Jul 1945 (franking date), postcard. (vi). 18 Jul 1945 (3 sheets). (vii). 3 Aug 1945 (franking date), postcard. (viii). 26 Jan 1946 (1 sheet). (ix). 15 Feb 1946 (1 sheet folded). (x). 2 Mar 1946 (franking date), postcard. (xi). 3 Mar 1946 (1 sheet). (xii). 4 Mar 1946 (3 sheets). (xiii). 6 Mar 1946 ( 1 sheet). (xiv). 14 Mar 1946 (1 sheet folded). (xv). 18 Mar 1946 (1 sheet folded). (xvi). 20 Mar [1946] (1 sheet folded). (xvii). 9 Apr 1946 (franking date), postcard. (xviii). 11 Apr 1946 (1 sheet folded). (xix). 17 Apr 1946 (franking date), postcard. (xx). 5 May 1946 (1 sheet). (xxi). 21 May 1946 (1 sheet folded). (xxii). 22-23 Nov 1946 (2 sheets). (xxiii). 3 Dec 1946 (franking date), postcard. (xxiv). 6 Dec 1946 (3 sheets). (xxv). 25 Nov 1947 (date received) (1 sheet folded).

(2). Four undated letters from Cornford to George.

(3). Draft autograph Preface (5 sheets) and dedication (1 sheet) 'To the memory of Jacques Pierre Raverat from FCC'.

(4). Two Tables of Contents: autograph (1 sheet) and typed (2 sheets). The typed version is annotated in pencil 'to follow' against two poems: 'Tapisserie de la grande peur' (number 5) and 'On dormait encore en ce temps là' (number 16). The typed version is titled 'Twenty Poems by Aragon'. The autograph version is titled 'Poems by Aragon' and lists eighteen poems. Both versions give the titles of the poems in French and English.

(5). Eighteen typed poems in translation, titles in French (i.e. lacking the two poems marked 'to follow' from the typed Table of Contents). The eighteen poems are: 'Vingt ans après'; 'Les lilas et les roses'; 'Complainte pour l'orgue de la nouvelle Barbarie'; 'King Richard II: 1940'; 'Plainte pour le grand descort de France'; 'Zone libre'; 'Chant français'; 'Ce que dit Elsa'; 'Contre la poésie pure'; 'La délaissée'; 'D'une petite fille massacrée'; 'Elsa au miroir'; 'Ballude de celui qui chanta dans les supplices'; 'Plainte pour la mort de Madame Vittoria Colonna, Marquise de Pescaire'; 'Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux'; 'Les roses de Noël'; 'Richard Coeur-de-Lion'; 'Paris'.