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Coverless Notebook

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AuthorGurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
TitleMigrants
NotesA fair manuscript copy of this poem in pencil. Another draft exists in the green manuscript notebook 64.6. this draft was transcribed by Gurney in a letter of 27th August 1918 to Marion Scott, and he referred to it as 'Which is one of my best things - to the author's mind, at any rate'. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September 1918.
Item Date27th August 1918
Creation placeSt Albans, England (Google Maps)
File typeImage
Item sourceNotebook
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumPencil
ContentPoem
Page4 of 20
Collection IDPapers of Ivor Gurney 64.5.6.3v-4r
Repository nameThe Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository address
Gloucestershire Archives
Clarence Row, Alvin Street
Gloucester
GL1 3DW
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives
CataloguerAlisa Miller
FilenameIG-64-5-6ff3v-4r.jpg
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/7515/7248

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AuthorGurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
TitleCoverless Notebook
NotesA coverless notebook used by Gurney from late August to mid-September
Item DateAugust-September 1918
Creation placeSt Albans, England (Google Maps)
File typeImage
Item sourceNotebook
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumPencil
ContentPoem
Repository nameThe Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository address
Gloucestershire Archives
Clarence Row, Alvin Street
Gloucester
GL1 3DW
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives
CataloguerAlisa Miller
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/7515