“The 2 richest things in life...The companioned solitude, and the companionship that never stifles your identity. Both are rare, hard to find, hard to keep.”

Tennant, Stephen James Napier [21 April 1906 - 28 February 1987]

Wilsford Manor, nd, black ink on note paper, with sketch of a head and a bow at the top, and various pencil notations

225 x 180 mm

Poem of nineteen lines, headed “Who”, with an unfinished poem of four lines above. “You say you know my name, - my life, my age,- You name my dossier in the neatest form, And yet there is a stumbling block...”

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