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AuthorGurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
TitleWar Books
NotesTypescript prepared by Marion Scott. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Manuscript drafts found in the notebook 'GA 45457' entitled 'Best Poems'. A version was included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954.
Item DateSeptember 1922 - 1925
Creation placeGloucester or Dartford, England
File typeImage
Item sourceLeaf
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumTypescript
ContentPoem
Collection IDPapers of Ivor Gurney 21.87a
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-21-87a.jpg
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/6268