Rosemary Chadwick's notebook

Rosemary Chadwick's notebook

Notebook containing drawings, short essays and notes in English and French by herself, family and other friends as well as several pages of signatures. Include part of a Théophile Gautier's poem. On the first page 'Rosemary Chadwick 1946'.

1946

Twenty five double page booklet and covers

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[underlined] Autographs [/underlined]
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August 1946 Rosemary Chadwick
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Just to remind you my dear of the happy times of Biggy & Osie.
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Indian Bullock Cart. [signature]
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Love Liz Lamb
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[underlined] FRIENDS! [/underlined]
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[underlined] Hope and Despair [/underlined]
Said God, “You sisters, ere ye go
Down among men, my work to do,
I will on each a badge bestow:
Hope I love best, and gold for her,
Yet a silver glory for Despair,
For she is my angel too.”
Then like a queen, Despair
Put on the stars to wear.
But Hope took ears of corn, and round
Her temples in a wreath them bound. –
Which think ye lookt [sic] the more fair?
Best Wishes
from
Ann Cartwright
26/3/47
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Lest we forget!
Much [underlined] love [/underlined]
Shirley.
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much love
Cookey
18/1/47
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WOT!!
Lots of Love from Di
17/1/47
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-:From a Poem to his Son Colman
Bishop of Lindisfarne 661-668-:
LIVE, AND BE FAMED AND HAPPY: ALL THE PRAISE OF HONOURED LIFE TO THEE.
YEA, ALL THIS WORLD CAN GIVE THEE OF DELIGHT,
AND THEN ETERNITY.
Margaret.
1947.
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[inserted vertically] All good wishes, March 31st ’47. C.G. [/inserted vertically]
“-A strange and beautiful land this Ireland is…. Never a poet has lain on our hillsides but gentle stately figures move through his dreams, over radiant grasses, in an ever enchanted world of their own. It has become alive…”
(A.E.)
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Garth. 2.3.49
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[inserted vertically] JUST FIVE MINUTES MORE [/inserted vertically]
With tons of love from Nicky
16/1/47
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Cheshire County Training College 1948 – 1950
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LECTURERS OF CHESHIRE COUNTY TRAINING COLLEGE 1948 – 1950.
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[underlined] Morning at the Window [/underlined]
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.
T.S. Eliot
[signature] – with love
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[inserted vertically] 7th August, 1949 Best Wishes [underlined] Russell [/underlined][/inserted vertically]
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For birds with broken wings, For rabbits caught in springs, For poor bewildered foxes, And butterflies in boxes; Hear us, we beseech Thee.
For dogs without a home, For “cats that walk alone”, For horses worn & old, For sheep without a fold; Hear us, we beseech Thee.
For all those weak & lowly Depending on man solely, By all we hold most Holy Hear us, we beseech Thee.
Love & best wishes
[signature]. 18/1/47.
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poor prickly pooh!
Everything in the garden is lovely!
[underlined signature][Black Ash.]
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[underlined] OFFICERS : Easter 1947 : Halvern Wells. [/underlined]
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[underlined] The House Beautiful [/underlined]
A naked house, a naked moor, A shivering pool before the door, A garden bare of flowers and fruit, And poplars at the garden foot: Such is the place that I live in, Break without and bare within.
Best Wishes
[underlined] Hoylie xxx [/underlined]
March 1947
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[underlined] The One Before The Last [/underlined]
(Apologies to Robert Brooks)
I dreamt I was in love again
With the One Before the Last,
And smiled to greet the pleasant pain
Of that innocent young pest.
But I jumped to feel how sharp had been
The pain when it did live,
How the faded dreams of Nineteen-ten
Were Hell in Nineteen-five.
The girl’s woe was as keen and clear,
The girl’s love just as true,
And the One Before the Last, my dear,
Hurt just as much as you.
Oh! bitter thoughts I had in plenty.
But here’s the worst of it -
I shall forget, in Thirteen-twenty,
You ever hurt a bit!
(Bev with Love a character sketch)
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[underlined] To Be or Not to Be. [/underlined]
I sometimes think I’d rather crow
And be a rooster than toroost
And be a crow. But I dunno.
A rooster he can roost also.
Which don’t seem fair when crow’s can’t crow
Which may help some. Still I dunno.
Crows should be glad of one thing, though
Nobody thinks of eating crow,
While roosters they are good enough
For anyone unless they’re tough.
There are lots of tough old rooster though,
And anyway a crow can’t crow
So [indecipherable word] roosters stand more show
It looks that way. But I dunno.
[underlined] Original. J.M.N. [/underlined]
From Elly with much love & best wishes.
4/2/47.
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“Lost” – between Suns Rise and Sun-set – 1 Golden hour, Studded with 60 diamond minutes – No reward offered, Lost forever.
J.E. Gimersall.
[underlined] July 1949. [/underlined]
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Best Wishes
Margaret Hurst
July ’47.
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love & best wishes
17.1.47. [underlined] Naughty [/underlined]
[underlined] Sea Fever [/underlined]
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face and a [underlined] grey dawn breaking [/underlined].
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over. John Masefield.
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Love is of man’s life a thing apart
‘Tis woman’s whole existence….
[Lord Byron]
Frankie
July 12th. 1950.
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[underlined] There Must be Trees… [/underlined]
“….There must be trees in all men’s lives –
Brave, lofty, singing trees whose great upstretching arms shall bear their earthly pain and rooted care –
Men should make friends of trees!!
Love from Chris
19/1/47
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I did not lose my heart in summer’s even
When roses to the moonrise burst apart:
When plumes were under heel and lead was flying.
In blood and smoke and flame I lost my heart.
I lost it to a soldier and a foemen,
A chap that did not kill me, but he tried.
That took the sabre straight and took it striking
And laughed and kissed his hand to me and died.
A.E.Houseman
Best wishes – Willa Murray
19/7/47
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Little girls should love their brothers But I so old have grown That I love sombody [sic] else’s brother Much better than my own.
Love to Anne
Margaret [indecipherable word]
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[underlined] In Reminder – [/underlined] JC ! 1947.
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