STEPHENS, JAMES. Twenty autograph manuscripts signed of different poems, several dated in Paris (one in Dublin) 1914, together 25 pages, narrow 8vo, in ink on vertically lined sheets, a few bottom margins creased, mostly fair copies with a correction or two, but about seven manuscripts with several revisions, titles include: "The Satyrs Lament," "The Forest," "The Sleeping Beauty," "The Monk & the Mermaid," "The Crown of Thorns," etc.; Approximately 23 pages, 8vo, of autograph poetry manuscript fragments, portions of prose works, or unfinished manuscripts, probably First World War period, ink and pencil on lined paper, some browning, some edges torn irregularly, all working drafts with revisions; Four drafts of autograph letters signed and one autograph letter signed, Paris, March 1915, Kingsbury, 18 November 1925, and n.p., n.d., together 15 pages, nearly all narrow 8vo, in ink on vertically lined sheets (except for one), some revisions, includes three "To the Editor of The New Age" and one "To the Editor of Sinn Fein." In the Paris, March 1915 letter, "To the Editor of The New Age" and headed at top "A Reply to Mr. Pound's Article on Ireland," Stephens writes: "I write to you in sorrow, for I prefer always, that my mind should dwell on pleasant things. Mr. Ezra Pound is not pleasant. And he has mentioned my name in the New Age!... I wish, that he would not say, that I ran away from Ireland. I wish that he would run back to America...", also mentioning Synge, Lawrence, Joyce, and Yeats. In the letter "To the Editor of Sinn Fein" he writes: "Some time ago, when you were ravening for the blood of Irish poets, I ventured, apologetically, to slope my tiny buckler between them and your terrific mace. I withdraw that buckler, and beg you to slaughter the petty crew as horridly as you can..."; all in a brown half morocco slipcase.Provenance: W.T.H. Howe, bookplate -- Edith Barbara Tranter, bookplate.

STEPHENS, JAMES. Twenty autograph manuscripts signed of different poems, several dated in Paris (one in Dublin) 1914, together 25 pages, narrow 8vo, in ink on vertically lined sheets, a few bottom margins creased, mostly fair copies with a correction or two, but about seven manuscripts with several revisions, titles include: "The Satyrs Lament," "The Forest," "The Sleeping Beauty," "The Monk & the Mermaid," "The Crown of Thorns," etc.; Approximately 23 pages, 8vo, of autograph poetry manuscript fragments, portions of prose works, or unfinished manuscripts, probably First World War period, ink and pencil on lined paper, some browning, some edges torn irregularly, all working drafts with revisions; Four drafts of autograph letters signed and one autograph letter signed, Paris, March 1915, Kingsbury, 18 November 1925, and n.p., n.d., together 15 pages, nearly all narrow 8vo, in ink on vertically lined sheets (except for one), some revisions, includes three "To the Editor of The New Age" and one "To the Editor of Sinn Fein." In the Paris, March 1915 letter, "To the Editor of The New Age" and headed at top "A Reply to Mr. Pound's Article on Ireland," Stephens writes: "I write to you in sorrow, for I prefer always, that my mind should dwell on pleasant things. Mr. Ezra Pound is not pleasant. And he has mentioned my name in the New Age!... I wish, that he would not say, that I ran away from Ireland. I wish that he would run back to America...", also mentioning Synge, Lawrence, Joyce, and Yeats. In the letter "To the Editor of Sinn Fein" he writes: "Some time ago, when you were ravening for the blood of Irish poets, I ventured, apologetically, to slope my tiny buckler between them and your terrific mace. I withdraw that buckler, and beg you to slaughter the petty crew as horridly as you can..."; all in a brown half morocco slipcase. Provenance: W.T.H. Howe, bookplate -- Edith Barbara Tranter, bookplate.

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STEPHENS, JAMES. Twenty autograph manuscripts signed of different poems, several dated in Paris (one in Dublin) 1914, together 25 pages, narrow 8vo, in ink on vertically lined sheets, a few bottom margins creased, mostly fair copies with a correction or two, but about seven manuscripts with several revisions, titles include: "The Satyrs Lament," "The Forest," "The Sleeping Beauty," "The Monk & the Mermaid," "The Crown of Thorns," etc.; Approximately 23 pages, 8vo, of autograph poetry manuscript fragments, portions of prose works, or unfinished manuscripts, probably First World War period, ink and pencil on lined paper, some browning, some edges torn irregularly, all working drafts with revisions; Four drafts of autograph letters signed and one autograph letter signed, Paris, March 1915, Kingsbury, 18 November 1925, and n.p., n.d., together 15 pages, nearly all narrow 8vo, in ink on vertically lined sheets (except for one), some revisions, includes three "To the Editor of The New Age" and one "To the Editor of Sinn Fein." In the Paris, March 1915 letter, "To the Editor of The New Age" and headed at top "A Reply to Mr. Pound's Article on Ireland," Stephens writes: "I write to you in sorrow, for I prefer always, that my mind should dwell on pleasant things. Mr. Ezra Pound is not pleasant. And he has mentioned my name in the New Age!... I wish, that he would not say, that I ran away from Ireland. I wish that he would run back to America...", also mentioning Synge, Lawrence, Joyce, and Yeats. In the letter "To the Editor of Sinn Fein" he writes: "Some time ago, when you were ravening for the blood of Irish poets, I ventured, apologetically, to slope my tiny buckler between them and your terrific mace. I withdraw that buckler, and beg you to slaughter the petty crew as horridly as you can..."; all in a brown half morocco slipcase.

Provenance: W.T.H. Howe, bookplate -- Edith Barbara Tranter, bookplate.