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Betjeman, Sir John. Working drafts of his poem "Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden"
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Betjeman, Sir John. Working drafts of his poem "Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden"
comprising: two autograph versions of the poem, one in green ink with deletions and revisions (as well as doodles), the other a fair copy in black ink; and a carbon-copy typescript of the poem with autograph corrections and a one-line insertion, marked in red pencil "New Statesman"
4 pages, foolscap and 4to, [c.1940], minor wear, slight splitting at folds of one sheet
"Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden"' written as a poem of adoration for Pam ("you strapping mountainous sports girl"), was published in Old Lights for New Chancels (1940).
comprising: two autograph versions of the poem, one in green ink with deletions and revisions (as well as doodles), the other a fair copy in black ink; and a carbon-copy typescript of the poem with autograph corrections and a one-line insertion, marked in red pencil "New Statesman"
4 pages, foolscap and 4to, [c.1940], minor wear, slight splitting at folds of one sheet
"Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden"' written as a poem of adoration for Pam ("you strapping mountainous sports girl"), was published in Old Lights for New Chancels (1940).