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THE SUNDAY TIMES
Anonymous: Fusilier Bluff (Bles, 1934)
ASH, Edward C.: Puppies, Their Choice, Care and Training (Miles, 1933)
CAREY, Lewis: My Gun and I (Philip Allan, 1933)
CHALMERS, Patrick R.: Dogs of Every Day (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1933)
CLARK, Alan: The Donkeys (Hutchinson, 1961)
DAVENPORT, W. Bromley: Sport (MacLehose, 1933)
HICKLING, Grace: Grey Seals and the Farne Islands (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962)
HILLS, R. J. T.: Something About a Soldier (Lovat Dickson, 1934)
JAMES, Nora C.: Jake the Dog (Dent, 1933)
JOBSON, Allan: An Hour-Glass on the Run (Michael Joseph, 1959)
MOYNIHAN, Michael (editor): People at War, 1914-1918 (David & Charles, 1973)
PARKER, Ernest: Into Battle: 1914-18 (Longmans, 1964)
PERCY, Cyril Heber: Hym (Faber, 1959)
STARKIE, Walter: Scholars and Gypsies: An Autobiography (John Murray, 1963)
THOREAU, H. D.: A Writer’s Journal (Heinemann, 1961)
A reader was prompted to write in on reading this (the date his letter was published is unknown, but presumably the following week):
HICKORY DICKORY
Sir,
Henry Williamson seemed surprised to find hickory in "An Hour-Glass on the Run." Forty years ago when I was a small boy living in South Suffolk the gypsies still used hickory for making clothes pegs. My bow was hickory but from a hazel coppice.
Gerald W. Clarke
Northampton.
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In the literary archive there are two completely different versions of this review in galley proofs, sent to HW by The Sunday Times. The second version, a more considered assessment of the book, is that used for publication. On the manuscript of this HW notes that it was written on 10 July 1961, while he was staying with his friend Sir John Heygate at Bellarena in Northern Ireland.
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The red strip on the back cover is a mark left by sellotape:
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The galley proof of the earlier review, the MSS of the published review and scans of the notes that HW made inside his review copy over several pages (with a transcript) are available on a separate page.
(Taken from a photocopy)
(Taken from a photocopy)
September 1964 (day of publication unknown)
HW was invited to review Ernest Parker's Into Battle: 1914-18 by the Literary Editor of The Sunday Times:
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Unfortunately, neither the press cutting nor the galley proof of HW's review survive in the archive. However, tucked into the review copy are the letter above and a two-page carbon-copy typescript on thin paper. The typescript seems incomplete, but there are roughly 750 words here – more than twice the length asked for.
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October 1973 (day of publication unknown)
Unfortunately, neither the press cutting nor the galley proof of HW's review of this book survive in the archive, though there are both several drafts and a 'final' review that exist as carbon copies of the typescripts. First came this letter from the Literary Editor of The Sunday Times:
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Labelled 'Final copy', it must be presumed that this is the review as sent to and published in The Sunday Times:
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HW inscribed the front endpaper thus:
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Draft reviews:
HW's first version of the review is labelled 'rejected', and 'bad':
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Three further drafts follow, although in the first, the text on the second page doesn't follow on from the first, and seems to belong to a different draft:
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And finally, what seems to have been a false start, quickly abandoned:
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