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Add MS 60586
- Record Id:
- 040-001991520
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001991518
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000393.0x0000d9
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- Add MS 60586
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KEITH DOUGLAS PAPERS. Vol. XVI. Prose, etc., of Keith Douglas; 1937-circa 1944.
ff. 20. 312 x 220mm.
1. f. 1. Notes for and partial draft of an essay on 'Words', written on an Oxford entrance examination paper; Dec. 1937.
2. ff. 2-11. Notebook comprising (a) The draft of a short unidentified passage for the war-diary published as Alamein to Zem Zem; circa 1943. f. 3; (b) Fragments, surviving on the stubs of six excised leaves, of an apparently autobiographical prose-piece; n.d. French. ff. 4-9; (c) A draft of the first one-and-a-half lines of the poem 'Sportsmen'; circa 1943. f. 10v. Leaves now in Add. 53773, ff. 58, 59, comprising drafts of the latter poem, were probably removed from this notebook, which is of Italian manufacture and bears the brand-name 'Quaderno'.
3. ff. 12-20. Version of a passage printed in Alamein to Zem Zem, with variants both from the manuscript (Add. 53774, ff. 4v-18) and the printed text (see pp. 19-34 of the 1946 edition); circa 1943-1944.
Poetry ENGLISH: Poems of Keith Douglas: 1935-1944: Drafts and fair copies.
includes:
- ff. 1, 4-9 Keith Castellain Douglas, poet and author; d.1944: Essay, etc., by Keith Castellain Douglas: 1937, n.d.: Partly Fr.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001991518
040-001991520 - Is part of:
- Add MS 60585-60589 : KEITH DOUGLAS PAPERS Vols. XV-XIX: supplementary to Add. 53773-53776 (Vols. I-IV), 56355-56360 (Vols. V-X), 57977 (Vol.…
Add MS 60586 : KEITH DOUGLAS PAPERS. Vol. XVI. Prose, etc., of Keith Douglas; 1937-circa 1944. ff. 20. 312 x 220mm. 1. f. 1. Notes for and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001991518[0002]/040-001991520
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 60585-60589
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1937
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 1937-1949
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Douglas, Keith Castellain, poet and author, 1920-1944