Aurelia & Other Poems

A sequence of sonnets written in ink and pencil, for Nancy Cunard, in draft form. Pasted in is a signed autograph letter (Oxford, 17 July 1920) explaining that the poems are "a little offering of M.S. of a certain Oh terribly famous bard" for Evan Morgan, Baron Tredegar, on his 27th birthday. The poems show Nichol's infatuated love for Cunard, which had only been encouraged by Cunard's resistance. Seemingly this manuscript is an earlier version of the sonnets than the manuscript he sent to Cunard herself. The drafts are heavily corrected, with alternative versions of stanzas, and include ruled and numbered grids to aid division of the poetic line.