Box 22

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Copies of earlier versions of this poem entitled "Just Heaven" and "On Heaven". The final version was published in "Poetry", June 1914. With minor corrections. Harvey Ciii(8)c

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Incomplete carbon draft of an article on Thomas Hardy. One version later appeared in the "American Mercury", Aug. 1936 and another became Chapter 6 of "Portraits from Life". With corrections throughout and missing pages 3-5 and 20.

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Autograph manuscript of four sour synopses of novels: Item I, entitled "Bond", was later written and published as "When the Wicked Man"; Item II, entitle "Hallows End", and Item III, untitled, were apparently never developed but both are about characters in "The Good Soldier" about whom Ford felt he could write more; and Item IV entitle "After Waterloo," was written and published as "A Little Less Than Gods".

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Typescript copy of the same synopses [20] with provisional titles included.

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Copy of a synopsis of Ford's novel "The Rash Act" (here called "As Thy Day"), written by J. T.

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Carbon copy of a radio talk that Ford delivered on the subject of the W.P.A.

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Typescript of an article on the writer's craft. Later published in the "Southern Review", 1 (July, 1935). With revisions apparently in Ford's hand and a note indicating the "manuscript [is] the property of Mrs. E.G. Bowen."

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, broadsides, bound manuscripts, photographs, and clippings, mainly spanning the period from the maturity of Ford's grandfather, Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, to the death of Ford himself. Material from Ford's career ranges from unpublished novels and short stories of the 1890's and early 1900's to journal articles, literary reviews, lectures, addresses, and radio talks he wrote or delivered in the last 20 years of his life, including...

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Draft of an unpublished poem. Written in pencil on a paper tablecloth.

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Draft of an article "On War", possibly unpublished which was apparently to be part of a larger series of articles titled "Thinking Aloud". With minor corrections.