| Description | 'Village Book' (1930): typescript chapters [MS 43/19]
'Village Book' (1930): manuscript, heavily corrected [MS 43/A44]
'Village Book' (1930): file labelled 'oddments' containing typescript and manuscript stray pages from Village Book [possibly also Labouring Life] and other related printed papers. Contains: typescript short story (2 copies) of 'The life of the stream'; typescript short story 'The country in April'; typescript short story 'Murderers of birds'; manuscript short story 'Winter-rambling thoughts'; manuscript short story 'A dog's life'; manuscript draft contents' and title pages including for 'A West country village' and including "an explanation to the reader of the Village Book in a dedicatory letter [to S P B Mais], with list of contents"; press cuttings of reviews and short story publications, 1920s-1930s; typescript short story 'Signs of spring' ["a talk to Richard Jefferies"]; typescript short story 'Billy Goldsworthy's mother'; typescript short story 'By Bideford long bridge', Jan 1925; manuscript short story 'The eternal warriors'; typescript short story 'A bird blasted wood'; typescript short story 'Summer afternoon on Vention Sands' [or 'One afternoon by the sea']; typescript drafts of 'Consecration of the new burial ground: fifth year'; typescript of "Chapter 1: being, as it were, samples of the contents of The Labouring Life and its fellow, The Village Book"; typescript short story 'Village families'; typescript short story 'Cat and blackbird'; typescript of 'Cemetery or burial ground?, first year'; ms notes for dedication, notes and title page of ? 'The Labouring Life', 1930-1931; letter from D H Bell informing H W of change of address, 1929; monthly bulletins for the parish church of Ham St George, 1927-1928; income tax bill, 1930; leaflet 'The form and manner of consecrating new or additional burial ground in use in the Diocese of Exeter', 1927; answers to questions about New Cemetery, 1931; letter from ? Gwenyth Williams, Ashford Rectory, Barnstaple, Devon, regarding Devon dialects, 1928; letter from AB T of Georgeham regarding his milkman, 1930; notes on Devon dialect ['sayings of Ernie'], 1922; incomplete typescript and manuscript pages: typescript short story 'The first day of spring'; typescript short story 'The rabbits' graveyard'; manuscript short story 'Smakkticker'; manuscript short story 'Pastoral silence'; typescript short story 'The mad mullah'; also many unidentified manuscript and typescript portions of unidentified short stories [all found loose in box with MS 43/19 ("Village book and other 'oddments'"). Identified by Tony Evans, 10 Oct 2005] [MS 43/19 add.]
[NB see also MS 43/8 add.] |