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MS Mus. 1675
- Record Id:
- 040-001947307
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001947248
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000248.0x00035a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Mus. 1675
- Title:
- Harriet Cohen Papers. Papers formerly owned by Arnold Bax. Writings by Bax
- Scope & Content:
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Vol. l. Short stories, short dramas, poems, fragments, outlines and drafts; 1906-1945, n.d. All autograph except where otherwise indicated. Nos. 6-47 are poems, some of which are printed in Scott-Sutherland, Ideala: Love letters and poems of Arnold Bax (2001). There are generally slight differences between these manuscripts and the published versions, which are based on other sources. First words have been given for all poems not found in Scott-Sutherland’s collection. Nos. 25-47 have marginal comments in pencil in another hand.
ff. 188. 280 x 215mm.
1. ff. 1-22r. ‘After Clontarf’; n.d. Typescript short story.
2. ff. 23-33r. ‘Told on a stormy night’; n.d. Typescript short story.
3. ff. 34-61r. ‘At a Crossway’; 1919. Short story.
4. ff. 62-82r. ‘The Death of Donnal Cunnea’; 1919. Drama.
5. ff. 83-100r. ‘The Grey Swan’; 1919. Verse drama.
6. f. 101. ‘Spring’; 1918. This is not the published poem of the same title. First words ‘Gold-stained from my sunny birth’.
7. f. 102r. ‘Leannan-Sidhe’; 1918. ‘There strays a woman here and there’.
8. f. 103r. ‘A dream’; 1918. ‘She said “Come out and see the cows”’.
9. f. 104r. ‘At midsummer’; 1918. ‘Now that the air doth turn to heat again’.
10. f. 105r. ‘A Novitiate’; 1918. ‘Dear silly child, Love counts no finer merit’.
11. ff. 106-107r. ‘Camden Town’; 1918. ‘Where the tram halts she waited’.
12. ff. 108-109r. ‘Rapture’; 1919. ‘A few more years and who shall say’.
13. f. 110r. ‘After reading “Mademoiselle de Maupin”’; 1906. Published with the title ‘Mademoiselle de Maupin and her lovers’.
14. f. 111r. ‘Faery-Tales’; 1907. ‘An old sad legend of this country sings’.
15. f. 112r. ‘In the house of memory’; 1906.
16. ff. 113-114r. ‘The Twentieth Year’; 1921.
17. f. 115r. ‘Venus de Milo’; 1921. ‘Last night they left us by the fire alone’.
18. f. 116r. ‘The burning flower’; 1921. ‘I pulled a flower one morn in Spring’.
19. f. 117r. ‘The reproof’; 1923.
20. f. 118r. ‘By a cabin-fire (To M)’; 1929. ‘With her poor broken shoes and the turf-scent in her dress’.
21. f. 119r. ‘Spring-storm’; 1929. ‘The world is mad with wind to-day’.
22. f. 120r. ‘E. F.’; 1929. ‘Yes, she was but a vain and selfish jade’.
23. ff. 121-122r. ‘To Maigread’; 1929. ‘A scarf of fire droops in the sea’.
24. f. 123r. ‘Eostre’; 1929. ‘I raise the monstrance to Almighty Love’.
25. f. 125r. ‘Dream before sleep’; 1916. Typescript.
26. f. 126r. ‘Connemara’; 1912. Typescript. ‘Here in this glen’.
27. ff. 127-128r. ‘In a back-street’; 1917. Typescript.
28. f. 129r. ‘The poet despairs of images’; 1916. Typescript.
29. f. 130r. ‘Revolt’; 1918. ‘Love rainbow-clad strode through the house’.
30. f. 131r. ‘On Knocknarea’; 1919. ‘Because my pain had made me mad and brave’.
31. f. 132. ‘In an Ulster kitchen’; n.d. ‘The kitchen candle spits and fails’.
32. f. 133r. ‘Heard on the Moyle. 1920’; 1920. ‘In a windless night of summer’.
33. f. 134r. ‘The Circle’. 1915. Typescript.
34. ff. 135-136r. ‘In Dublin Bay’; 1913. Typescript.
35. f. 137r. ‘Confusion’; 1916. Typescript.
36. ff. 138-139r. ‘An Atlantic Cavern’; n.d. Typescript.
37. f. 140r. ‘Disillusion’; 1913. Typescript.
38. f. 141r. ‘At midsummer’. See above, no. 9. Typescript.
39. f. 142r. ‘Spring’. See above, no. 6. Typescript.
40. f. 143r. ‘Leannan-Sidhe’. See above, no. 7. Typescript.
41. ff. 144-145r. ‘Paradox’; 1917. Typescript.
42. f. 146r. ‘Sacred Love’; 1915. Typescript.
43. ff. 147-148r. ‘In Glencree’; 1912. Typescript.
44. ff. 149-150r. ‘Dionysia’; 1909. Typescript.
45. f. 151r. ‘In a Backwater’; 1913. Typescript.
46. f. 152r. ‘The haunted lake’; 1911. Typescript.
47. ff. 153-155r. ‘The Innermost’; 1917. Typescript. Published as ‘The Innermost’ and ‘I am all broken up with love’, but most probably a single poem.
48. ff. 156-159r. Fragment of an untitled short story; n.d. Typescript.
49. ff. 160-163r. Outline for a play or short story; n.d. Characters: Guari King of Leinster, Gonnflaith, Sadb, Eocaidh.
50. ff. 164-167v. Fragment of a play; n.d. Characters: a blind bard Muirteach Daly, a friar, fishermen.
51. ff. 168-188. Drafts and sketches; 1919, 1945, n.d. Including a draft of ‘After Clontarf’, see above, no. 1.
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, alias 'Sheila McCarthy'; alias 'Dermot O'Byrne'; KCVO; composer: Short stories, poems and drafts: 1906-1945, n.d.: Typewritten and autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Music Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001947248
036-001947277
037-001947298
038-001947304
040-001947307 - Is part of:
- MS Mus. 1626-1677 : Harriet Cohen Papers
MS Mus. 1649-1677 : Harriet Cohen Papers. D. Letters from Arnold Bax to Harriet Cohen and papers formerly owned by Arnold Bax
MS Mus. 1668-1676 : Harriet Cohen Papers. Papers formerly owned by Arnold Bax
MS Mus. 1673-1675 : Harriet Cohen Papers. Papers formerly owned by Arnold Bax. Writings by Bax
MS Mus. 1675 : Harriet Cohen Papers. Papers formerly owned by Arnold Bax. Writings by Bax - Hierarchy:
- 032-001947248[0004]/036-001947277[0002]/037-001947298[0006]/038-001947304[0003]/040-001947307
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1626-1677
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1906
- End Date:
- 1945
- Date Range:
- 1906-1945
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Bax, Arnold Edward Trevor, Knight, composer, 1883-1953