Camps / Question and Answer / 'If we must die for England'
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Title
Camps / Question and Answer / 'If we must die for England'
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Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
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Abstract
1) Draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
2) The right hand page contains a draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of Question and Answer, a poem sent to Marion Scott on 27 July 1917. The left hand page contains a draft of the end of 'Camps', published in War's Embers (1919). From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
3) Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The left hand page contains the draft of what was probably a seventh verse to Camps. The right hand page, although titled 'Strafe' contains an unrelated, unpublished poem. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
2) The right hand page contains a draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of Question and Answer, a poem sent to Marion Scott on 27 July 1917. The left hand page contains a draft of the end of 'Camps', published in War's Embers (1919). From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
3) Drafts in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The left hand page contains the draft of what was probably a seventh verse to Camps. The right hand page, although titled 'Strafe' contains an unrelated, unpublished poem. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
Date
May - June 1917
Contributor
Alisa Miller
