66242: Navy Blue Notebook
Creators: name: Project Team, First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: A navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918. | File description(s):Front cover of a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript pencil draft of an unpublished poem. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil and ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Another fair copy of 'Near Midsummer' is dated 'Warrington July 1918'. The poem was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). One stanza of an unpublished, apparently discarded poem, 'The Deserted Road', has been crossed out. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem titled 'Commercial Road, Gloucester', later published in War's Embers (1919) as 'Down Commercial Road'. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of the draft of 'Down Commercial Road'. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil and pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of the draft of 'Down Commercial Road'. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of the draft of 'Down Commercial Road'. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of a poem identified on the right hand page as 'Buire au Bois', but which is drafted elsewhere and was published in War's Embers (1919) as 'On Rest'. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of the first draft of what was to become 'On Rest' (War's Embers, 1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Marked by Gurney 'Warrington, July 1918'. Mentioned in a letter of August 1918 to Marion Scott. One of just a few poems from this time not selected for 'War's Embers' (1919), published in Collected Poems (1982/2004). Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Marked by Gurney 'Warrington, July 1918'. Mentioned in a letter of August 1918 to Marion Scott. One of only a few poems from this period not selected for 'War's Embers' (1919). Published in Collected Poems (1982/2004). Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand, dated July 1918. Gurney made a copy of this draft in another notebook which he dated 'Warrington July' and revised the final two lines. Published in 'The Spectator' on 11th July 1919. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Draft in pencil of two stanzas of The Fisherman of Newnham. Gurney copied the completed poem into a letter to Herbert Howells of 11 July 1918. The right hand page contains part of 'On Rest'. Both poems were published in War's Embers (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The left hand page contains part of 'Ypres-Minsterworth', titled elsewhere 'Robecq-Minsterworth'. 'Minsterworth' is where the poet F.W. Harvey, a friend of Gurney's, lived. The poem is dedicated to Harvey, who was reported missing in August 1916 but was later known to have been taken prisoner. The right hand page contains a draft of the opening of 'On Rest'. Both poems were included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Continuation of the draft of 'On Rest'. The poem was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Draft of the latter part of 'On Rest'. The poem was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Drafts of the opening of 'The Farm' (left hand page) and the third stanza of 'Ypres-Minsterworth'. The poems were later published in 'War's Embers' (1919). From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Unknown verses by an unknown author in an unknown hand. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of an unpublished poem titled elsewhere in the notebook 'Triolet'. The right hand page contains what appears to be a three part musical exercise. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil and pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Draft of part of 'Near Midsummer'. The right hand page has been begun as a letter to his father. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil and pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Draft of part of 'The Stone-Breaker'. Gurney later revised the poem and sent it to Marion Scott in 'The Canon Notebook' 52.5 with two new opening and two new closing stanzas, asking her opinion of the work in September 1918. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The first two stanzas of the left hand page are the unpublished poem 'Sundown', written over a list of names written in faint purple pencil. The remaining lines are unidentified and unpublished. From a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Manuscript notes, in pencil, in Ivor Gurney's hand. These pages show the inside cover and notes. From a navy blue notebook used at Warrington in July 1918.<br>Reverse cover of a navy blue notebook used by Gurney at Warrington in July 1918.