Unusual 8.75 x 11 vellum-bound notebook with illuminated title page, "These Names Shall Live," containing 21 lengthy handwritten quotes signed by their well-known authors, dating from 1923 to 1932. Highlights include an aphorism by Peter Pan playwright J. M. Barrie ("Those who bring happiness into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves"), a quotation from When We Were Very Young by Winnie-the-Pooh creator A. A. Milne, a sixteen-line poem titled "The Linnet" by Walter de la Mare, four stanzas from "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon, a long quotation from "History of the Great War" by John Buchan, and an eight-line stanza from John Galsworthy entitled "The Downs" (from Verses New and Old). Other contributors include Hugh Robert Mill, Arthur Benson, E. V. Lucas, Ian Hay, and Roger Ingpen. In fine condition.
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