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Ashley MS 2438
- Record Id:
- 040-001979216
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001448.0x000114
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS 2438
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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'Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913': a poem by Robert Bridges; 1913. Auto-graph fair copy, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of pale blue wove paper. Watermark part of Royal Arms. Entitled 'PAX HOMINIBUS BONAE VOLUNTATIS' in Bridges' hand, and signed and dated 'RB. 1913'. In the margin is an autograph note referring to the word 'heav'nly' found in l. 17 "I find I have written 'heavenly' in all my copies for my original 'starry'. & I can't copy afresh - so I leave it -". The lines of the poem are set out differently from the printed version, occupying one line only, with the caesura indicated. Elisions are also indicated. For an account of the metre see the note by Bridges on p. 474 of Poetical Works, 2nd edition, 1936. The text found in the MS. is, with the exception of 'starry / heav'nly' and minor points of spelling and punctuation, identical with that first printed in The Times for 24 Dec. 1913, and reprinted in Poems, 1920, pp. 4-5, and Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, 2nd edition, 1936, pp. 477-478. Accompanying the MS. is a letter from Bridges to Edmund Gosse, 15 Aug. 1891, chiefly expressing sympathy for Gosse's ill health (ff. 2, 2b). Ashley Library Catalogue, x, p. 25.
Quarto; ff. i+2.
includes:
- f. 1 Poetry ENGLISH: Robert Seymour Bridges, OM; Poet Laureate: Poem, 'Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913', by Robert Seymour Bridges: 1913: Autogr. fair copy.
- ff. 2, 2b Edward Gosse, poet: Robert Seymour Bridges, OM; Poet Laureate: Letter to Edward Gosse from Robert Seymour Bridges: 1891.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001979216 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS 2438 : 'Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913': a poem by Robert Bridges; 1913. Auto-graph fair copy, written on one side only of a quarto leaf… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0578]/040-001979216
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ashley MS A17-5768
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1913
- End Date:
- 1913
- Date Range:
- 1913
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bridges, Robert Seymour, Poet Laureate, 1844-1930,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110706275,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/73868561
Gosse, Edmund William, Knight, writer, 1849-1928