Box file. Worksheets of poems and prose pieces by Gavin Ewart

This material is held atHull University Archives, Hull History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 50 U DP163/23
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1935-1938
  • Physical Description
    • circa 63 items

Scope and Content

Poems:

a) 'And That's The Way It Goes' (ts.)

b) 'Author's Note' (ts.)

c) 'Days of Contempt' (ts.)

d) 'How jolly when the East winds shrill' (ms.)

e) 'Humble Bumble' (ts. and carbon copy)

f) 'I've spent my life playing Patience' (ts.)

g) 'Johnny - Head - In - Air' (ms.)

h) 'Last Sorrow' (ms.)

i) 'Miss Twye (ts.)

j) 'Morceau' (ts.)

k) 'Petit Dejeuner' (ts.)

l) Poem ("We see in parks") (ts.)

m) Poem ("He thought of living in a single room") (ts.)

n) 'Queen Victoria Rescued From Flames By Lord Tennyson' (ms.)

o) 'Song' (ts.)

p) 'Summer Time Ends To-day' (ts.)

q) 'Stanza' (ts.)

r) 'The English Wife' (ts.)

s) 'The Freedom of the Press' (ts.)

t) 'The Old Familiar Faces' (cutting from 'Advertiser's Weekly')

u) 'Troubled Times' (ts. and carbon copy)

v) 'We have tasted the bitterness of butter' (ms.)

'Fox-trot songs':

w) 'A Lazy Young Man' (ts. [2] and carbon copy)

x) 'Falling in Lust with You' (ms. and carbon copy)

y) 'Please handle with care' (ts.)

z) 'The Freedom of the Press' (ts.) (2)

aa) 'Varsity Girl' (ms., ts. and carbon copy)

ab) 'Wasting my sweetness on the desert air' (ts.)

ac) 'You're just a mystery to me' (ms. and ts.)

Mock advertisements:

ad) 'After the ball is over' (ms. and ts.)

ae) 'Do you suffer from menu monotony' (ms.)

af) 'Five wise virgins' (ms. and ts.)

ag) 'Memories of you' (ms. and ts.)

ah) 'No thank you, it doesn't agree with me' (ms. and ts.)

ai) 'Quiet corner' (ms. and ts.)

aj) 'The Morny after the night before' (ts.)

ak) 'What price health?' (ms. and ts.)

al) 'Who's been polishing the sun?' (ms. and ts.)

am) 'Why did the gum boil' (ms. and ts.)

Prose pieces:

an) 'A Fine Romance' (ms.)

ao) 'A man is born, studies for years' (ms.)

ap) 'Her Dream Came True' (ts.)

aq) 'Just an old pair of trousers' (ts.)

ar) 'London's Buildings' (ts.)

as) 'Miss Twye' (ms.)

at) 'Dawn Must Break' (ms.)

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