Rolling Down the Lea, undated
Scope and Contents
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Individual Prose Pieces, (4) Plays, Scenarios, Scripts, (5) Poems in the Collected Poems, the Unselected Poems, and the Unpublished Penultimate Poems, (6) Individual Manuscript Poems, Mostly Unpublished,(7) Manuscripts of Others, (8) Gogarty Fragments and Notes, (9) Correspondence, (10) Gogarty Memorabilia, (11) Miscellaneous Publications [Preserved by, or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: undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Gogarty, St. John, Oliver, 1878-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Academy of American Poets (Organization)
- From the Collection: Russell , George William, 1867-1935 (Person)
- From the Collection: Alexandra, Queen, consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1844-1925 (Person)
- From the Collection: Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928 (Person)
- From the Collection: Asquith, Margot, 1864-1945 (Person)
- From the Collection: Baring, Cecil, 1864-1934 (Person)
- From the Collection: Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945 (Person)
- From the Collection: Beauclerk, Helen, 1892–1969 (Person)
- From the Collection: Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964 (Person)
- From the Collection: Bell, G. K. A. ((George Kennedy Allen)), 1883-1958 (Person)
- From the Collection: Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948 (Person)
- From the Collection: Boyd, Ernest Augustus, 1887-1946 (Person)
- From the Collection: Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930 (Person)
- From the Collection: Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: Campbell, Joseph, 1879-1944 (Person)
- From the Collection: Canfield, Curtis, 1903-1986 (Person)
- From the Collection: Childers , Erskine, 1870-1922 (Person)
- From the Collection: Clifton, John Talbot, 1868-1928 (Person)
- From the Collection: Clifton, Violet, 1883-1961 (Person)
- From the Collection: Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 (Person)
- From the Collection: CBS Radio Network (Organization)
- From the Collection: Costello, John A. , John Aloysius, 1891-1976 (Person)
- From the Collection: Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980 (Person)
- From the Collection: Curtis Brown Ltd. (Organization)
- From the Collection: Davidson, Gustav, 1895-1971 (Person)
- From the Collection: Walter, De la Mare, 1873-1956 (Person)
- From the Collection: National Museum of Ireland (Organization)
- From the Collection: Dictionary of national biography (Organization)
- From the Collection: Doubleday & Company, Inc. (Organization)
- From the Collection: Doyle, Lynn, 1873-1961 (Person)
- From the Collection: Duell, Sloan & Pearce (Organization)
- From the Collection: Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 (Person)
- From the Collection: Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987 (Person)
- From the Collection: Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 (Person)
- From the Collection: Gwynn, Stephen, 1864-1950 (Person)
- From the Collection: Higgins, F. R. (Frederick Robert), 1896-1941 (Person)
- From the Collection: Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961 (Person)
- From the Collection: Hone, Joseph M. (Joseph Maunsell), 1882-1959 (Person)
- From the Collection: Hone, Nathaniel, 1831-1917 (Person)
- From the Collection: Irish Academy of Letters (Organization)
- From the Collection: Johnston , Denis, 1901-1984 (Person)
- From the Collection: Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969 (Person)
- From the Collection: Knight, W. F. Jackson (William Francis Jackson), 1895-1964 (Person)
- From the Collection: Lee, R. W. (Robert Warden), 1868-1958 (Person)
- From the Collection: Library of Congress (Organization)
- From the Collection: Lutyens , Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 (Person)
- From the Collection: Gonne, Maud, 1866-1953 (Person)
- From the Collection: McCormack, John, 1884-1945 (Person)
- From the Collection: MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Person)
- From the Collection: Mackenna, Stephen, 1872-1934 (Person)
- From the Collection: MacNamara, Brinsley, 1890-1963 (Person)
- From the Collection: Marie Louise, Princess, granddaughter of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1872-1956 (Person)
- From the Collection: Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953 (Person)
- From the Collection: Moore, George, 1852-1933 (Person)
- From the Collection: O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964 (Person)
- From the Collection: O'Sullivan , Seumas, 1879-1958 (Person)
- From the Collection: Oxford University Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Penguin Books Ltd (Organization)
- From the Collection: Random House Inc (Organization)
- From the Collection: Robinson, Lennox, 1886-1958 (Person)
- From the Collection: Rodgers, W. R. (William Robert), 1909-1969 (Person)
- From the Collection: Roosevelt , Theodore, 1887-1944 (Person)
- From the Collection: Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946 (Person)
- From the Collection: Spicer-Simson, Theodore, 1871-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Squire, John Collings, Sir, 1884-1958 (Person)
- From the Collection: Stephens, James, 1882-1950 (Person)
- From the Collection: Strong , L. A. G. (Leonard Alfred George), 1896-1958 (Person)
- From the Collection: Tindall, William York, 1903-1981 (Person)
- From the Collection: Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon), 1899-1996 (Person)
- From the Collection: Ussher, Arland, 1899-1980 (Person)
- From the Collection: Viking Press (Organization)
- From the Collection: Wall, Mervyn, 1908-1997 (Person)
- From the Collection: Watson , William, 1858-1935 (Person)
- From the Collection: Weygandt , Cornelius, 1871-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Williams, Oscar, 1900-1964 (Person)
- From the Collection: Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940 (Person)
- From the Collection: Yeats , Jack B. (Jack Butler), 1871-1957 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Full Extent
175 Pages
Language of Materials
English
Materials Specific Details
Typescript of autobiographical journey-fantasy; n.d. [1949-50]; n.s. The boxed manuscript [175 pp. +] represents different stages in composition, and a stage preceding the final structure of the book.
There are 2 gaps in the manuscript, which lacks Chapter VII and XIX. Chapter XX, "Green Tape," is Chapter XXI of the published book, indicating that the crucial, "Once Only," Chapter XX of the book, had not yet been established as the imaginative climax of the work. Chapters V and VI,Chapters VIII-XVIII, and Chapter XX are of the same stage of development; pagination within each chapter is discrete. Each chapter has a title page. Chapters V - XX: 139 pp.; 20.2 x 25.3, some few being irregular.
The opening typescript chapters include no version of the book's second chapter. Chapter I [9 pp.; 21.6 x 28.0, several being irregular, cut, or cut and pasted] with 3 prefatory pages, was originally, authorial revisions indicate, Chapter II. There are 2 versions of Chapter III. The earlier stage [6 pp.; 20.2 x 25.3, with some irregularity] has extensive autograph revisions in pen and pencil. The later draft of Chapter III [6 pp.; 21.7 x 28.0] is close to the published version. There are 2 versions of Chapter IV, neither quite approaching the "'Lillbullero'" of the published work. The earlier draft, heavy with autograph revisions in ink, consists of 7 pp.; 21.6 x 28.0, numbered 30-36; it is incomplete. The second version, 7 pp. 20.2 x 25.4; 2 pp. 21.6 x 27.9, also with revisions in ink, also incomplete, though closer to the published chapter, does not approximate its complete form. Five additional pp.; [1, 2], 9, 10, 130 in pagination.
Publication: Atlantic Monthly, October 1948; Rolling Down the Lea, Constable, London, 1950 [in final form].
Repository Details
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