Add MS 83152

Eleanor Farjeon Papers. Vol. lxxvi (ff. 166). Material to be included in Book Three of the Memoirs, titled ‘Pod: A Person’, covering Eleanor Farjeon’s life with George Chester Earle, al. ‘Pod’ and their friends from 1920 until his death in 1949; 1920-[circa 1960], n.d. Mostly typewritten. For correspondence between Eleanor Farjeon and George Earle, see Add. 83132.

1. ff. 1-11. [italics]Photocopies[/italics] of ‘The King Alfred School Society Twenty-Second Report of the Council’ and [italics]photocopies[/italics] of [italics]autograph[/italics] letters relating to Earle’s decision to apply for the position of head-master of King Alfred School; 1920. Partly published in [italics]Morning Has Broken[/italics], p. 135.

2. ff. 12-24. [italics]Autograph[/italics] notes and partly [italics]autograph[/italics] draft of the First Chapter of ‘Pod: A Person’; [[italics]circa[/italics] 1960]. With [italics]photocopied[/italics] account of Earle’s death and funeral (ff. 20-24).

3. ff. 25-29. Material relating to William Ibbett; [1931], n.d. [italics]Printed[/italics] proof pages of William Ibbett, [italics]A Nobody’s Annals[/italics] (1931) and an [italics]autograph[/italics] list of members of the Ibbett family in Ibbett’s hand. Eleanor Farjeon planned a book called ‘A Lost Elizabethan’ about the life and work of Ibbet. For [italics]copies[/italics] of correspondence between Eleanor Farjeon and William Ibbett, see Add. 83138.

4. ff. 30-61. Three drafts with [italics]autograph[/italics] revisions of ‘Elizabeth Myers’ with draft pages and [italics]autograph[/italics] note; [[italics]circa[/italics] 1957]. Published separately as a limited edition work: [italics]Elizabeth Myers: With a Sonnet by Sara Jackson[/italics] (1957). For letters from Elizabeth Myers, see Add. 83139.

5. ff. 62-88. Three drafts with [italics]autograph[/italics] revisions of ‘Some Memories of Walter de la Mare’; [[italics]circa[/italics] 1957]. Extracts from these drafts were published in ‘Remembering Walter de la Mare’ in [italics]Chosen for Children: An Account of Books Which Have Been Awarded the Library Association Carnegie Medal: 1936-1975[/italics], ed. Marcus Crouch and Alec Ellis (1977), pp. 48-49.

6. ff. 84-165. ‘Adventures in France’; [ [italics]circa[/italics] 1927], n.d. Material relating to Eleanor Farjeon’s visits to France in the 1920s. Includes [italics]printed[/italics] tourist information booklets in [italics]French[/italics] on ‘Lisieux et ses environs’ and ‘La Touraine et ses châteaux historiques’ with a post-card of the Hôtel de France in Chinon (ff. 91-144), an [italics]autograph[/italics] list of train times and boat connections for ‘Journey Out’ and ‘Journey Back’ (ff. 145-146) and [italics]autograph[/italics] notes on a visit to France (f. 147). Also includes drafts, some with [italics]autograph[/italics] revisions, of short accounts of meals in various towns in France marked ‘for use only if really suitable’ (ff. 148-165). A version of ‘An Omelette in Chinon’ (ff. 148-157) was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme as part of the ‘Woman’s Hour’ on 5 Oct. 1961, and repeated on the BBC Home Service on 26 Nov. 1961, see letter from Stanley Scott, 27 Nov. 1961, Add. 83140.

7. f. 166. ‘Note on James Stephens’; 1946.