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- [c 1913-1914] (Creation)
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Mostly typescript, some sheets with MS annotations. 8 ff. typescript with smaller sheets attached; 11 ff. further large sheets of typescript and 1 f. MS; 6 ff. smaller sheets typescript.
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No title is given, though the poems each have their number. In most cases large sheets only bear the English translation, with the French text often on smaller sheets kept alongside; some sheets have both the original and translation. MS annotations and corrections often present.
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- English
- French
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Related units of description
ONSL/58 - French text, with English translation of Les Amours de I du Bellay.
Publication note
Sonnets XXI and XXVII are reproduced in Onslow, M. (1924). Huia Onslow : A memoir. London: E. Arnold & Co, p 114-115. It is noted there that Onslow was thinking of publishing his translations of du Bellay in 1913-1914, but that only the first two ever appeared, in the Three Arts [Club?] Journal.