VERHAEREN Emile - Autograph notes and verse for the Université des Annales Category_Naval and Military

VERHAEREN Emile - Autograph notes and verse for the Université des Annales Category_Naval and MilitaryEmile VERHAEREN (1855 1916) Draft notes for a presentation to the Annales [the Universit des Annales], together with four lines of verse on a separate sheet, which appear to be have been written for the occasion. 2 pages small 4to and half page 8vo in French on sheets taken from notebooks, n. p., n. d. [but probably 1914 16]. On the recto of the first sheet, Verhaeren has written [trans:] This is the thirteenth time that in this pathetique milieu of

A delightful letter

and those already purchased

Freeling / 16th May”

Henry Austin Driver was considered by some to be an excellent poet in his day

Say the prices you want

I very much hope to be able to look in & see the paintings by Crosbie [possibly the Scottish artist William Crosbie] which I hope are still on

Your glasses will be of the greatest possible service to our Non-Commissioned Officers in the field

6 September 1673

and the corrected text below reads [trans:] “One is the Belgium of the North

regardless of the scandals associated with the poet

together with La-Chaux-de-Fonds

he died of pneumonia in November 1914