Box CLX-A-354
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, including two manuscript poems by Walter de la Mare
Item — Box: CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1834
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, sister-in-law of poet Walter de la Mare. It contains numerous newspaper clippings, some relating to de la Mare's fiction and articles by him; and two unpublished poems by Walter to his nephew James Roy Delamare.
Dates:
1884-1950
Livre de Raison (Commonplace book)
Collection — Box: CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1854
Content Description
This outlandish and colourful manuscript volume is an exceptional resource to understand and study French popular culture in the late 18th-early 19th centuries. Its contents are extremely varied, and include poems, oracles, lyrics of popular songs, proverbs and maxims, recipes, legal document templates, a formulary of letters, calendars, little stories and anecdotes, an account of Napoleon's return to France after his exile on Elba, and a dictionary for the interpretation of dreams. It...
Dates:
c 1820-1830