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Louse Hunting

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AuthorRosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)
TitleLouse Hunting
NotesPencil draft written on poor quality paper, folded in four, muddy and torn. This appears to be the only complete surviving manuscript, and because of the difficulties involved in transcribing it various editions of the poem differ in a number of places.
Item DateJune 1916 - March 1917
Creation placeFrance
File typeImage
Item sourceLeaf
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumPencil
ContentPoem
Item height240
Item width200
Collection IDIR/I/247
Repository nameImperial War Museum, Department of Documents
Repository address
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.iwm.org.uk/
CataloguerAlisa Miller
FilenameIRIWM_1_247.jpg
CopyrightThe Imperial War Museum/The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate
Digital repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1479