Manuscript transcripts by Edward Marsh, [c.1916], of poetry fragments by Rupert Brooke. The transcripts have been annotated 'This book is an exact copy of the notebook in which Rupert Brooke wrote between Feb. 28 1915 when he left England, and his death on April 23rd 1915. It came to England with his other things on July 16th E. Marsh'. The fragments include:
[f.2] 'They say Achilles in the darkness stirred ...'
[f.3] 'The poor scrap of a song that some men tried ...'
[f.5] '"When Nobby tried" the stokers [alt. soldiers] say ...'
[f.8] 'All things are written in the mind ...'
[f.12] 'The firm limbs are no more: gone back to earth ...'
[f.15] THE DANCE 'As the wind and as the wind ...'
[f.16] DAWN. LEMNOS 'The hour invisible colour's sun ...'
[f.18] [FRAGMENT] 'I strayed about the deck, an hour, tonight ...'
[f.19] 'She of our songs and praise ...'.