Draft with date and place of composition. Minor crossings out throughout. Bound with a typescript copy of Eliot's text annotated by Britten (BBM/canticle_v/1/1) and small discarded sketch relating to page seven of the published score on the reverse of the title page BBM/canticle_v/2/3.
6 pages of 9 page manuscript [4r-9r]
Bound volume; pencil; 31.3 x 39.1 cm; stamped with 'British Library' stamp. Shares a volume with other sources. See Related Records and Title Page of Collected Volume.
'In loving memory of William Plomer [underlined] / Canticle V for Tenor & Harp. / The Death of Narcissus / T. S. Eliot. / BB / Op 89'.
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