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- 1938 (Creation)
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35 ff. (blank from f. 11 verso; text on rectos) ; 230 x 180 mm.
Paper covers; 'Heatherslade, Pennard, Nr Swansea', 'Vernon Phillips Watkins' and 'Subject: Translations (German)' (ink on front cover).
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Exercise book, 1938, of Vernon Watkins, containing drafts of translations from German of eight poems by Theodor Storm (ff. 2-4), Rilke (ff. 5-8) and Novalis (ff. 10-11).
Four of the poems (ff. 2-3, 5, 8) were published in Vernon Watkins, Selected Verse Translations (London, 1977), pp. 70-1, 73.
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- English
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Staples removed and bindings re-stitched at NLW; leaf torn out after f. 5.
Finding aids
A detailed list of the manuscript's contents may be found in Vernon Watkins Manuscripts: Group II (1988, 2001) (https://archives.library.wales/external_documents/VernonWatkins2.pdf).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23761C.
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- Storm, Theodor, 1817-1888 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Novalis, 1772-1801 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Storm, Theodor, 1817-1888. (Subject)
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. (Subject)
- Novalis, 1772-1801. (Subject)