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Description: | File containing notes and draft pieces marked as intended for inclusion in the 'Birthday Book of 10'. The file includes typescript notes on proposed contents, and drafts of pieces for inclusion. Drafts are grouped under several headings, including 'Puzzles etc', containing manuscript and typescript drafts for jokes, riddles, puzzles and quizzes; 'Things to Do and Make', including a piece titled '10 games and recipes'; 'Articles' containing drafts of 'On Being Ten Years Old (James Reeves), 'The Romance of Waterfalls' (Kaye Webb, Age 10), 'Childhood of Freya Stark' (unattributed) and 'How I spent my tenth Birthday' (Diana Pullain Thompson); 'Stories', includes drafts for 'The Sensible March Hare' (Janet McNeill), 'To My Horror' (Michael Harrison), 'The Big Race' (Ruskin Bond), 'The Caretakers' (Olive Dehn), 'The Little Dressmaker' (Eleanor Farjeon), 'The Innkeepers or The King's Legs' (Richard Hughes) and 'When I was Ten' (Jean Elizabeth Dawson); 'Poems' containing drafts of 'The Strange Song' (Rebecca West, Age 10), 'Song of the Robin' (Libbie Hawes, Age 10), 'Double Figures' (J.C. Trewin), 'Little Fan', 'Big Business' (Ruskin Bond) and 'Naughty Children' (Christiana Brand); finally, several small pieces are grouped together and titled 'Fill-ups'. Other pieces, not otherwise grouped, include a series of draft pieces titled 'What They Were Like', describing Richard II, Prince Charles Edward, Henry Irving, David Livingstone, Sybil Thorndike, Laurence Olivier, Ian Hamilton, Donald Wolfit, Charles Dickens and Ellen Terry, and drafts for 'letters written by 10 year olds' and 'letters received by 10 year olds'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Rights holder: | Seven Stories | Subjects: | Seven Stories | Source: | Seven Stories | Identifier: | KW/07/03/04/02 | Go to resource |
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