Add MS 83118

Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. xlii (ff. 98). ‘Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep’ (f. 1), ‘The Goldfish’ (ff. 2-5), ‘Johnny Bungler’ (ff. 6-71), ‘The Lamb of Chinon’ (ff. 72-85) and ‘The Little Dressmaker’ (ff. 86-98); n.d. Mostly autograph. ‘Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep’ first published in Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field (1937) and subsequently published independently as a short story (2000). For an account of how ‘Elsie Piddock’ came to be written, see Anne Harvey, ‘Elsie Piddock, Then and Now’, Signal, 99 (2002), 156-175 and Kim Leslie, ‘Eleanor Farjeon’s Sussex’, West Sussex Gazette, 13 November 2003. ‘The Goldfish’ was published in One Foot in Fairyland (1938) and later collected in The Little Bookroom (1955). ‘Johnny Bungler’ was part of a project to translate Sis Joans [Six Boys Called John] (1928), a collection of children’s stories by Carles Riba written in Catalan relating the adventures of six boys named ‘Joan’. ‘The Lamb of Chinon’ was published in Faithful Jenny Dove and Other Tales (1925) and ‘The Little Dressmaker’ in One Foot in Fairyland (1938), later collected in The Little Bookroom (1955).

1. f.1. One [italics]autograph[/italics] draft page of ‘Elsie Piddock’, corresponding to pp. 97-98 of the first published edition of [italics]Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field[/italics]; n.d.

2. ff. 2-5. Draft pages [[italics]incomplete[/italics]] of ‘The Goldfish’ corresponding to [italics]One Foot in Fairyland[/italics], pp. 90-94; n.d.

3. ff. 6-33. Two [italics]typewritten[/italics] drafts of ‘Johnny Bungler’ with autograph revisions; n.d. The original title of the story in [italics]Catalan[/italics] is [italics]Joan Barroer[/italics].

4. ff. 34-71. Notebook containing [italics]French[/italics] translations of two further stories in an unknown hand; n.d. Includes the final part of ‘Jean sale’ [Dirty John] and the complete version of ‘Jean qui tourmentait les bêtes’ [John, who used to tease animals]. The original titles of these stories in [italics]Catalan[/italics] are [italics]Joan Brut[/italics] and [italics]Joan que turmentava les besties[/italics] respectively.

5. ff. 72-85. Draft of ‘The Lamb of Chinon’; n.d.

6. ff. 86-98. Draft of ‘The Little Dressmaker’; n.d.