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Description: | Notes and drafts for pieces either commissioned or reproduced, all concerning 12 either as an age or a number, including notes on the structure of the book, and lists of pieces for inclusion. Drafts are frequently marked '12', for inclusion in the book. The file contains a group of articles titled 'How I did', including typescript drafts for ''How I came to love mountains: Sir John Hunt interviewed by John Ellison' (with one photograph of Hunt as a child attached), 'How to be a Naturalist: A conversation with Gerald Durrell', 'How I Began, by Larry Adler', 'How I became an Actress: An interview with Dame Sybil Thorndike', ''How to Write a Letter' by Lewis Caroll', and a short comedic piece titled 'How not to prepare for an examination'. The file also contains a group of stories titled 'First Love', including typescript drafts of pieces by Sacha Guitry, Leo Tolstoy and Robert Collis and various individual pieces including 'The Three Kings' (Modwena Sedgwick), 'The Crinoline' ( J.B. Walford), 'Hunting Robbers' (Judith Bledscoe), 'A Literary Customer of the 1870's' (Neil Munro), 'Early Reading' (Edward Blishen), 'Twelve Good Men and True' (unattributed) and an excerpt from Louisa May Alcott's journals. The file also includes typescript copies for a group of poems, namely 'Striking Twelve' (J.C. Trewin), 'Apology for My Report' (R.M. Damerell, aged 12), 'A Twelve Year Old Idyll...' (Arthur Hugh Clough), 'Fair Elenor (William Blake, aged about 12) 'Me' (Walter de la Mare), 'A Birthday' (Christina Rossetti), 'Echo and The Ferry' (Jean Ingelow), 'Procrastination' (Stephen Spender, aged 16) and 'Among the Stars' (William Wordsworth). The file also includes several short pieces, not listed in later notes, presumably intended as fillers. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Rights holder: | Seven Stories | Subjects: | Seven Stories | Source: | Seven Stories | Identifier: | KW/07/03/05 | Go to resource |
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