KENT, ROCKWELL. "In the Land of Fisherman." Original manuscript signed twice (at the beginning and end). Brigus, Newfoundland, 2 December 1914. 7½ pages, 4to sheets, written in brown ink mostly on rectos (final half page on verso), with some revisions and deletions, some chipping at margins and wrinkling to last 2 leaves. (3)

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KENT, ROCKWELL. "In the Land of Fisherman." Original manuscript signed twice (at the beginning and end). Brigus, Newfoundland, 2 December 1914. 7½ pages, 4to sheets, written in brown ink mostly on rectos (final half page on verso), with some revisions and deletions, some chipping at margins and wrinkling to last 2 leaves. (3)

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[With:] An original manuscript for an apparently incomplete story. Newfoundland?, circa 1918. 2¼ pages, 4to, written mostly in ink (3 pencil lines at end) on rectos and one verso. It begins: "It's a miserable day. It has been a miserable week a dreadful month..." And an original manuscript. N.d. 3 pages, small 8vo, written on rectos and versos of a single folded sheet, on Kent's stationary. Apparently complete, the manuscript begins: "There was once a man who, whatever torture God put in his way yet thirsted, from the depths of his soul, for happiness..."

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