"Sissinghurst": autograph manuscript, loosely inserted into a first edition of Collected Poems: Volume One.. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar."Sissinghurst": autograph manuscript, loosely inserted into a first edition of Collected Poems: Volume One.

A pre-publication manuscript draft by Sackville-West of her poem "Sissinghurst", loosely inserted into a first edition of Collected Poems: Volume One, along with a typed letter signed to one Mrs Carey, dated 4 May 1933: "I find that I have not got a typewritten copy of the poem you wanted, so I hope you will forgive me for sending it to you in manuscript. Yours sincerely, V. Sackville West." "Sissinghurst" was composed in 1930 and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1931. It was republished in 1933 in Collected Poems: Volume One (pp. 111-14) and by the Samson Press in a limited edition of 500 copies. This appears to be a draft made prior to its first publication and shows Sackville-West making her final edits. There are four notable differences between this manuscript and the printed poem of 1931, and three lines where Sackville-West's edits to the manuscript are carried over into print. An early line in the manuscript reads "Rise the brick gable and the slender tower". "Slender" is struck through and replaced with "Springing" in pencil; the final poem is printed as "Rise the brick gable and the spring tower". The manuscript "Beneath the Himalayas of the sky" is changed by 1931 to the more general "Beneath the snowy mountains of the sky", and "And fills me with insensate deep repose" is exchanged for the more rhythmically appealing "And fills me with a mindless deep repose". The recipient may have been Clara Ellen Carey (nee Ware, 1862-1956) or her daughter Kathleen Marianne Carey (1898/9-c.1969). Both lived in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, not too far from the Sissinghurst estate. Much of Sackville-West's literary archive was dispersed by Sotheby's in 2003, and the Beinecke now houses a substantial portion, including the first known draft of "Sissinghurst". One other manuscript of the poem was sold by Sotheby's in 1979. This manuscript was found tucked inside a first edition of Collected Poems: Volume One, published by The Hogarth Press in 1933, included here. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A22a; Woolmer 271. Manuscript: Three leaves of ruled paper (325 x 205 mm), written one side only in black ink, corrections in pencil and ink. Letter: Single sheet of blue paper headed "Sissinghurst Castle, Kent" (225 x 175 mm), typed one side only. Book: Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Book: printed Sackville-West poem, "On a Dutch Flower-Picture", pasted onto verso of rear free endpaper. Foot of spine bumped, boards bowed, a little shaken, front inner hinge cracked, edges and endpapers foxed. Manuscript and letter creased where folded, a few paperclip rust marks and spots of foxing, two short closed tears to outer edge of final leaf of manuscript and one tiny hole to letter, neither affecting text. A well-preserved manuscript and letter, tucked into a very good copy of Collected Poems. …