BRENAN, Gerald. Carbon typescript for The History of Poor Robinson, [1965], lightly amended in autograph and inscribed ‘The End’ on the final page, 77 pages, 4°, stapled; [with:] Carbon typescript signed entitled Notes on Being in Love, July 1944, with the final page in autograph and inscribed ‘Albourne, July 1945’, 12 pages in total, 4°, with another amended copy of this work, entitled On falling in Love, 12 pages, 4°; [with:] Carbon typescript of Doggerel Verses, initialled on title page, 19 pages, folio. The History of Poor Robinson, a thinly-disguised account of Brenan's affair with Carrington, was written in 1927, not typed until 1965 (see Personal Record, p. 178).

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BRENAN, Gerald. Carbon typescript for The History of Poor Robinson, [1965], lightly amended in autograph and inscribed ‘The End’ on the final page, 77 pages, 4°, stapled; [with:] Carbon typescript signed entitled Notes on Being in Love, July 1944, with the final page in autograph and inscribed ‘Albourne, July 1945’, 12 pages in total, 4°, with another amended copy of this work, entitled On falling in Love, 12 pages, 4°; [with:] Carbon typescript of Doggerel Verses, initialled on title page, 19 pages, folio. The History of Poor Robinson, a thinly-disguised account of Brenan's affair with Carrington, was written in 1927, not typed until 1965 (see Personal Record, p. 178).

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