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Lot 2429
Nichols, Robert. Ardours and Endurances, first edition, portrait frontispiece, with signed 4 line autograph quotation by the author on the front flyleaf `What is there more to ask than that I have?.` Nancy Layard`s copy with signature dated July 5th 1917, a few ms. corrections to the text, sketch in red ink of the poet reading on a sofa dated 1917, pasted to verso of lower cover, a pencil sketch probably of the same, and two portrait photographs of the poet, cut round and pasted in, by Nancy Layard, tipped in note in pencil about the return of a pen, and press cuttings, original cloth, slightly soiled, 8vo, London: Chatto and Windus, 1917 Robert Nichols (1893-1944), WWI poet, friend of Sigfreid Sasson and Rupert Brooke, was invalided out of the trenches in 1916 suffering from shell shock. He was treated by Sir Henry Head, the neurologist. Nancy Layard was the older sister of John Willoughby Layard (1891-1974), anthropologist and Jungian psychotherapist.
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