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Box 2

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Contains 19 Results:

TM [Autobiographical information], [193-?]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of draft [?] of a summary of Ford's literary life, written in the third-person. Includes references to Ford Madox Brown and Joseph Conrad as well as the publication history and reception of the author's writings.

Dates: [193-?]

TM "Auto-plagiarism", [after 1927]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 17.5
Scope and Contents

An article, detailing a minor scandal concerning two works by Conrad: "The Sisters, and Unfinished Story" and "The Arrow of Gold". Includes a synopsis of "The English Novel" for Lippincott's "The One Hour Series", which was published in 1929, and a list of books of collected poems by Ford.

Dates: [after 1927]

A & TM "Autumn", [1894-1896]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

A musical composition, the lyrics of which are typed in full on the first page.

Dates: [1894-1896]

AM "Albade", [Summer, 1930]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Not the "Albade" of the "Poems Written on Active Service". Written in Ballancourt, which the poem references twice, and dates from the beginning of Ford's liaison with Janice Biala.

Dates: [Summer; 1930]

TM "The Alcestis of Euripides" freely adapted for the modern stage., Mar. 1919

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Two versions; complete manuscript in paper wrapper, 52 leaves, and alternate adaption of the last half, 27 leaves. Commissioned by Nigel Playfair, but unpublished. (Harvey Cv[5])

Dates: Mar. 1919

TM "The American Scene", [[193-?]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Possibly written in New York, this apparently unpublished manuscript contains a witty comparison of the New York and London literary scenes.

Dates: [[193-?]

TM "And even in Paradise devised ...", [192-?-193-?]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Possibly written in New York, a "play" in which the names of the characters and snippets of dialogue are to be found by referencing a crossword puzzle at the top of the page. The dramatic personae are all characters from Old Testament mythology (Adam, Lillith, Satan). With some corrections.

Dates: [192-?-193-?]

AM "And [of] halved angels with golden wings ...", [1890-1894?]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Fragment of two drafts of a short poem, written on the reverse side of a copy of "April Weather" by Mathilde Blind, in the hand of Ford.

Dates: [1890-1894?]

"Arms and the mind", Dec. 1980

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Printed facsimile of Ford's work of 1916 under the nom de plume "Miles Ignotus" and originally entitled "A Day of Battle", this essay is here published for the first time by "Esquire", v. 94, no.6, Dec. 1980, pp. 78-80.

Dates: Dec. 1980

Army correspondence notebook., Aug.-Sept. 1916

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Cardboard covered army issue notebook containing Ford's records of the regimental mess of which he was in charge, carbons of letter to his Commanding Officer and to C.F.G. Masterman. Also a carbon of the poem "Clair de lune" which was published in "On Heaven and Other Poems," 1918.

Dates: Aug.-Sept. 1916