Add MS 81909

Supplementary Strachey Papers. Vol. xxiv Contents lists of the above notebooks and groups of loose leaves, and drafts of some of the poems represented in them by fair copies; 1896-1931.

Contents:

1. ff. From Add. 81897 ‘Black copy book’: Contents leaf (inscribed in a later hand Va and 20), ‘Roundel’, ‘After Herrick’, ‘Non sequitur’, cuttings of ‘What shall I say’ and its parody and of ‘The roundel rhymer’ (originally written as ‘On being asked for a definition of a roundel’). –

2. ff. From Add. 81898 ‘Little red book’: Contents leaf (inscribed in a later hand Vc and 13), begin ‘Oh hopes and hearts that beat no longer’ (two drafts), ‘By the pool’, ‘To Eric’ (two drafts)’, ‘To Tony’, begin ‘Love if it you?’, begin ‘Once I said to Chloe’, begin ‘He stretched his sinewy hand’ (two drafts), ‘To Hubert’, ‘To Marie’.

3. ff. From Add. 81899 ‘Black leather rough-gold binder’: Contents leaf (inscribed in a later hand Ve and 16), typescript of ‘The fruit of the tree’.

4. ff. From Add. 81900: Contents leaf (inscribed in a later hand Vg) and text of ‘XX sonnets’.

5. ff. From Add. 81901: Contents leaf (inscribed in a later hand Z3 Private poems, Vb and 19), ‘In Arcady’ (two drafts), ‘The nose’, ‘To ?’, ‘The symbol’, ‘The farewells’, ‘With a volume of Keats’, ‘Adrian’, ‘Love’s history’.

6. ff. From Add. 81902: ‘Ningamus serta rosarum’.

7. ff. From Add. 81903 ‘Star exercise book’: Contents leaf only (inscribed in a later hand Vf and 15).

8. ff. From Add. 81904 ‘Blue copy book’: Contents leaf only (inscribed in a later hand Vr and 15)., 81903: contents leaves only (inscribed in a later hand Vf and 15 and Vh and 14).

9. ff. From Add. 81905 ‘Index of pink tied book’: Contents and ‘envelope F’ (inscribed in a later hand Vt, Vu and 48), ‘Hashish’ (autograph and typewritten), ‘Similes’ (typewritten), ‘Morning lust’ (autograph and typewritten), ‘To ― ’ (two drafts), ‘Knowledge’, ‘To love’, ‘A song’, ‘To Bazzi’, ‘Some day’, ‘The progress’ (three typewritten texts), begin ‘One day you let my sudden arms enlace’ (two drafts), ‘Happiness’.

10. ff. From Add. 81908 (section 3). Contents leaf for ‘A. XX Sonnets, B. Miscellaneous. Inscribed in a later hand Vg.

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