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Notebook, or album, with autograph poems in draft, circa 1926-1938

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Oliver St. John Gogarty consists of 13 series: (1) Notebooks, (2) Major Prose Works and Collections, (3) Essays and Individual Prose Pieces, (4) Plays, Scenarios, Scripts, (5) Poems in the Collected Poems, the Unselected Poems, and the Unpublished Penultimate Poems, (6) Individual Manuscript Poems, Mostly Unpublished,(7) Manuscripts of Others, (8) Gogarty Fragments and Notes, (9) Correspondence, (10) Gogarty Memorabilia, (11) Miscellaneous Publications [Preserved by, or related to Oliver St. John Gogarty], (12) Materials form the Estate of Mab [Wilson Wright] Moltke. (13) Materials Related to the Collection. The bulk of the collection is Correspondence; Sub-Series to Gogarty, from Gogarty, and Miscellaneous Correspondence.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1926-1938

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Full Extent

From the Collection: 10.08 Linear Feet (Twenty-four 5-inch document boxes )

Language of Materials

English

Materials Specific Details

Dates appear on some pages; n.s. Red leather notebook; 11.5 x 18.5; "Album" printed in gold on spine, with leaf design on covers in gold tooling. Poems and notes are mostly in ink; the paper is unlined.

Publication: Contains, in whole or in part, drafts of the following from Wild Apples, 1928: "The Crab Tree," "To Some Spiteful Persons," "Upon Moran," "To the Moon," "To George Redding"; from Selected Poems, 1933: "To 'Aphrodite'," "New Forms," "Colophon"; from Elbow Room, 1939: "All the Pictures."

Repository Details

Part of the Bucknell University Special Collections/University Archives Repository

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