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BETJEMAN, John (1906-1984). Autograph manuscript signed ('John Betjeman') of his poem 'Treligga Cliffs, Delabole' (published as 'Cornish Cliffs'), 15 May 1965, a wedding poem for Pip and Rosalind Hechle, with the unpublished opening 'Dear Pip, dear Rosalind, these lines are written To bring you back to Cornwall, South-West Britain' and other variants from the published text, 23 lines on one page, folio; with ten autograph letters signed to members of the Oakley and Hechle families, 26 January 1960 - 20 January 1975, one with a sketch of a Cornish landscape, and six postcards and eleven greetings cards; and two watercolours signed by Betjeman, 1966.
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BETJEMAN, John (1906-1984). Autograph manuscript signed ('John Betjeman') of his poem 'Treligga Cliffs, Delabole' (published as 'Cornish Cliffs'), 15 May 1965, a wedding poem for Pip and Rosalind Hechle, with the unpublished opening 'Dear Pip, dear Rosalind, these lines are written To bring you back to Cornwall, South-West Britain' and other variants from the published text, 23 lines on one page, folio; with ten autograph letters signed to members of the Oakley and Hechle families, 26 January 1960 - 20 January 1975, one with a sketch of a Cornish landscape, and six postcards and eleven greetings cards; and two watercolours signed by Betjeman, 1966.

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BETJEMAN, John (1906-1984). Autograph manuscript signed ('John Betjeman') of his poem 'Treligga Cliffs, Delabole' (published as 'Cornish Cliffs'), 15 May 1965, a wedding poem for Pip and Rosalind Hechle, with the unpublished opening 'Dear Pip, dear Rosalind, these lines are written To bring you back to Cornwall, South-West Britain' and other variants from the published text, 23 lines on one page, folio; with ten autograph letters signed to members of the Oakley and Hechle families, 26 January 1960 - 20 January 1975, one with a sketch of a Cornish landscape, and six postcards and eleven greetings cards; and two watercolours signed by Betjeman, 1966.

'These moments tasted, loved & never done
Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun
The far-off blow hole booming like a gun ...'
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