BIB_ID
195145
Accession number
MA 4657
Creator
Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970.
Display Date
1939 January 17 :
Credit line
Purchased, 1990.
Description
1 item (32 pages) ; 22.2 x 14.3 and 21.7 x 13.8 cm.
Notes
There is a penciled notation in an unknown hand suggesting that "S. O'S" may be Seumas O'Sullivan.
Autograph wrapper "The Dowson Legend / read before / The Royal Society of Literature / of the United Kingdom / March 9, 1938 / by / John Gawsworth, F.R.S.C / 1st Proof 17 Jan. 1939 / [To appear in "Essays by Divers / Hands : Transactions of the R.S.C." / Vol XVII, Oxford University Press, 1939] / To S.O'S. from / J.G. / 2 March 1939."
Autograph wrapper "The Dowson Legend / read before / The Royal Society of Literature / of the United Kingdom / March 9, 1938 / by / John Gawsworth, F.R.S.C / 1st Proof 17 Jan. 1939 / [To appear in "Essays by Divers / Hands : Transactions of the R.S.C." / Vol XVII, Oxford University Press, 1939] / To S.O'S. from / J.G. / 2 March 1939."
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1990 from Bradley Martin; inscribed 2 March 1939 to S.O'S.
Summary
Being a printed proof of "The Dowson Legend" with autograph corrections and additions and autograph notes to the printed at the top of page 1.
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