Dossier 182 - Harold Bertie Jennings: sonnets and other poems

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Gift of Bridget M. Jennings, 1969.

Over 40 poems, many represented by both original MS and typescript drafts, others as MS or typescripts only, some addressed to friends and family identified only by their initials. The typescripts were prepared by Jennings' sister Mabel Harwood, and later interleaved by his daughter Bridget Jennings with the correlating MS drafts. Accompanied by two printed journals, Poetry of today, 1940, with four poems signed H. B. J. and The poetry review, November-December 1940 with one poem signed H. B. J. Accompanied by a letter from Charles Morgan to Miss Jennings dated 1 Feb. 1951 about her father's poems, and praising in particular the sonnet, "As one that takes for world a little room". Four of the MS poems were part of letters sent by Harold to his sister Mabel and to his daughter.

Accompanied by three letters of donation from his daughter Bridget Jennings, identifying some of the people for whom the poems were written: Thomas A. Falcon, Harry Waechter, A. E. Collins, her mother Edith Mary Jennings, her uncle Willie Ascherson.