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

Wilsford Manor, nd, manuscript in brown ink and pencil, on both sides of a single sheet of notepaper

255 x 200 mm

“The White Camellia’’
By a narrow dark gateway among shrubs it stood; apart, In its own light, The sturdy Camellia tree. Porcelain pink, like flushed white marble,...” poem of forty-two lines

“[Poem] certain days smell of someone else’s seaside,
Not your own.”

poem of thirty lines

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