(i) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HER POEM 'THE VOICE OF A BIRD', herein headed by a biblical quotation 'He shall rise to the voice of a bird', 16 lines in four four-line stanzas, tipped into the copy of her Last Poems owned by John Drinkwater (inscribed by him 'John Drinkwater 1923') and with a note in pencil by him: 'Inserted is a MS copy of the poem on p. 28, sent to me by Alice Meynell on August 30th 1922...The copy differs in some lines from the published version', the poem 1 page, quarto [1922] Who then is 'he'? Dante, Keats, Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley: all Rose in their greatness at the shrill decree The little rousing call... The poem is published with differences in The Poems, 1847-1923, 1947. (ii) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF A POEM, signed ('Alice Meynell'), 6 lines, beginning 'Beyond all good I ever believed of thee, / Or thou of me, our angels love and live...', 1 page, quarto, not dated PROBABLY UNPUBLISHED: not in the Poems, 1947. (iii) Two autograph letters signed ('Alice Meynell'), on to R.N. Green-Armytage (see lot 321), about music and his setting for one of her poems, the illness of her son and the forthcoming book of her essays, the other thanking Mrs Fald for caring for Olivia, 8 pages, octavo, two envelopes, one 1921 (iv) Francis Meynell: Autograph manuscript signed ('Francis Meynell'), of his poem 'Permanence', 31 lines in four-line stanzas, beginning 'There is no time to change / One act, one word...', marked for 'Nation Poetry', 1 page, folio, 6 Wellington Road, not dated (v) Lithograph portrait of Alice Meynell by William Rothenstein (from English Portraits, 1898), framed and glazed, size of image 7 x 7 inches (16 x 16 cm), overall size 19 x 13 inches (48 x 33 cm), 1898 Alice Meynell was a Suffragette as well as a poet and her son Francis a printer. Her papers are mainly in Cambridge University Library and Boston College Library.
(i) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HER POEM 'THE VOICE OF A BIRD', herein headed by a biblical quotation 'He shall rise to the voice of a bird', 16 lines in four four-line stanzas, tipped into the copy of her Last Poems owned by John Drinkwater (inscribed by him 'John Drinkwater 1923') and with a note in pencil by him: 'Inserted is a MS copy of the poem on p. 28, sent to me by Alice Meynell on August 30th 1922...The copy differs in some lines from the published version', the poem 1 page, quarto [1922] Who then is 'he'? Dante, Keats, Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley: all Rose in their greatness at the shrill decree The little rousing call... The poem is published with differences in The Poems, 1847-1923, 1947. (ii) AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF A POEM, signed ('Alice Meynell'), 6 lines, beginning 'Beyond all good I ever believed of thee, / Or thou of me, our angels love and live...', 1 page, quarto, not dated PROBABLY UNPUBLISHED: not in the Poems, 1947. (iii) Two autograph letters signed ('Alice Meynell'), on to R.N. Green-Armytage (see lot 321), about music and his setting for one of her poems, the illness of her son and the forthcoming book of her essays, the other thanking Mrs Fald for caring for Olivia, 8 pages, octavo, two envelopes, one 1921 (iv) Francis Meynell: Autograph manuscript signed ('Francis Meynell'), of his poem 'Permanence', 31 lines in four-line stanzas, beginning 'There is no time to change / One act, one word...', marked for 'Nation Poetry', 1 page, folio, 6 Wellington Road, not dated (v) Lithograph portrait of Alice Meynell by William Rothenstein (from English Portraits, 1898), framed and glazed, size of image 7 x 7 inches (16 x 16 cm), overall size 19 x 13 inches (48 x 33 cm), 1898 Alice Meynell was a Suffragette as well as a poet and her son Francis a printer. Her papers are mainly in Cambridge University Library and Boston College Library.
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