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at the hospital alongside Hannah, including painter Henry Tonks, shown in one photo watching a game of boules (p. [19]), artist Wilfried de Glehn and his wife, shown in a number of photos (p. [22], with a print of one of his paintings of the hospital building also included, p. [10]), and future poet laureate John Masefield (p. [7]), who served a six-week term as a volunteer orderly during the spring of 1915, and drew from his experiences there for works such as Fetching the Wounded , The Distant Guns , and Men of Verdun . At the end of July 1915 Hannah was sent to the American Ambu- lance Hospital in Neuilly, Paris, and then to the Duchess of West- minster Hospital in Le Touquet. Hannah documents each of the hospitals she worked at. In December 1915 she returned to Paris, where she survived the February 1916 bombing of the city. Included in her photos of the hospital are images of the decoration services held at Les Invalides on 3 March 1916: it is possible Hannah received medals at this ceremony as there are three embossed watercolours of medals, including the Croix de Guerre, to the front pastedown. Hannah moved again in the summer of 1917 to the Duchess of Sutherland Ambulance hospital. The photos from this stay are par- ticularly interesting as they include a visit from King George V and Queen Mary during Bastille Day festivities, where Hannah features prominently in these photos in her handmade tortoise costume. £1,650 [129040]
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Neither that nor the American edition published by Harcourt, Brace & Co later in the same year, had any preface or introduction. In it, she makes one her most significant remarks on her revision of the text, noting that “in the first version Septimus, who later is intended to be her double, had no existence; and that Mrs. Dallo- way was originally to kill herself, or perhaps merely to die at the end of the party”. The typescript was composed at her Bloomsbury address in Tavistock Square and sent to the Modern Library offices in New York. £27,500 [122395] 179 (WORLD WAR I.) “War Log Book” photograph album. Arc-en-Barrois: 1915–8 Landscape sextodecimo (205 × 268 mm). Artist’s sketchbook in original grey cloth, rebacked to style with original spine laid down, heading written in manuscript to front cover, elasticated cloth band to rear pastedown. With 208 photographs (between 70 × 50 mm and 130 × 180 mm, the majority 105 × 60 mm or 90 × 124 mm), one watercolour (184 × 132 mm), 32 postcards (the majority 90 × 138 mm) and 4 newspaper clippings (various sizes), 3 leaves left blank, neatly captioned and annotated throughout in ink in a single hand. Boards a little bowed and soiled, minor rubbing to extremities, pages slight- ly rippled, overall in very good condition, the contents remaining bright. A remarkably rich and well-presented account of the First World War, compiled by Margaret “Meta” Sophie Hannah, a volunteer army nurse , providing insightful photos of key arenas of the war, accompanied by Hannah’s extensive annotations. The album is inscribed by one of her friends on the front paste- down, “Meta, in memory of our war holiday and ‘The Great Adven- ture’! July 1915”, referring to a walking tour in the Alps that Hannah and some of her fellow volunteer nurses took at the start of July 1915, when this album was likely bought. Hannah then filled the album with photographs she had taken earlier that year, and con- tinued to add to it throughout the war. The first entry is post-dated February 1915 when Hannah was working at the Chateau d’Arc en Barrois, an emergency evacuation hospital staffed by English vol- unteers serving the French 3rd Army Corps, founded in January of that year. A number of significant cultural figures also volunteered
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