Add MS 81908

Supplementary Strachey Papers. Vol. xxv. Other poems by Lytton Strachey; 1896-1931.

Contents:

1. ff. ‘Ely: an ode’; [1902]. Partial draft, fair copy with further amendments, and printed text. Published in 1902.

2. ff. ‘The Springalt page: a ballad … First edition. Printed by Littlejohn, Tidmarsh, 1918’; 1918. In the hand of Dora Carrington.

3. ff. Drafts of poems with contents leaf headed ‘Folder A – Pencil Drafts (fair copies in Folder B)’; 1916. Inscribed, in a later hand, respectively, Vm and 27.

4. ff. . Drafts of poems with contents leaf headed ‘Folder B – Fair copies (pen and typed)’; 1914-1918.

5. ff. Drafts of poems with contents leaf headed ‘Miscellaneous – Folder C’; 1909. Inscribed Vj and 24 in a later hand. ‘When we are dead a thousand years’ was published in Euphrosyne: a collection of verse (1905), see Add. 81902. One poem also typewritten.

6. ff. Drafts of poems with contents leaf headed ‘Miscellaneous – Folder D’; 1918. Inscribed Vp and 2 in a later hand, the folder’s letter D has been over-written with Z2.

7. ff. Drafts of poems with contents leaf headed ‘Envelope E’; 1905. Inscribed Vh and 11 in a later hand.

8. ff. Drafts of poems with contents leaf headed ‘Fragments, tales in verse’; n.d. Inscribed Vk and 26 in a later hand.,

9. ff. Drafts of poems with contents leaf headed ‘fair copy & rough draft’; 1916. Inscribed Vn and 10 in a later hand.

10. ff. Drafts of poems with contents leaf headed ‘Satirical poems & fragments’; n.d. Inscribed Vo and 9 in a later hand; 1902-1918, n.d. .

11. ff. Poems described on typewritten contents leaf as ‘C. Miscellaneous’; n.d.

12. ff. Poems described on typewritten contents leaf as ‘Originals in envelope E’; 1914-1918. Typewritten and two typewritten copies. For autograph drafts of these poems, see art. 7 above.

Poetry ENGLISH: G. L. Strachey. Poems and poetic fragmnents: 1896-1931.