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Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894-1962) Signed Unpublished Manuscript Poem within a Ship's Guest Book, 24 August 1916. Guest book owned by Dr. James Sibley Watson Jr. (1894-1982) and his wife Hildegarde Lassell Watson (1888-1976), was used onboard the yachts, "Algonquin," "Lasca," and "Genesee" and signed by hundreds passengers, some of whom wrote notes, poems, made sketches and small paintings, with other inserted ephemera relevant to the perambulations of the crafts; the Cummings poem seems to have been written on the occasion of Harvard classmate Sibley Watson's engagement to Hildegarde Lassell; some pages loose, many items inserted, Cummings's poem is signed on the recto side of the leaf with a small drawing of an elephant sprinting in the direction of a pointed sign marked, "Matrimony," poem on the verso; 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. [Together with] a photo album from the same period depicting journeys of the "Genesee," disbound, containing sixty-three small-format black-and-white photographs pasted onto black album pages, mostly titled in white, including shots taken on land and at sea during a cruise around Sweden during the summer of 1914. To sing of Sib I set my jib: O lovely Genesee! Brace thyself now For thou must bow To stern necessity. Since that dread day Whereof my lay The outcome must transcribe, He has (alack) Suffered attack, Or more (perhaps) a jibe. From coast to coast Whereas they'd boast How many a field he'd fought By hook or crook He has been took Read more…


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Date:
2015-05-27

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