Early Draft of "Lady Blanche's Farm"

"Lady Blanche Farm" <br />
Early Draft by FPK
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Title

Early Draft of "Lady Blanche's Farm"

Description

This is the first page of her first chapter of "Lady Blanche's Farm". Can see all the changes she's made to the page for the story to be better.

Creator

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Source

From the collection of Frances Parkinson Keyes Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.

Contributor

Brodey Lajoie & Rachey Murray

Format

Hand-written

Type

Draft
Early-writing

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Text

Lady Blanche Farm

A Narrative for the Commonplace

To My Three Sons
Henry, John, and Francis
With their Mothers love


Chapter I
“I’ve swallowed,” said Philip Starr to himself, “about two bushels of dust –don’t they ever oil their roads, in Vermont, I wonder? And what I haven’t swallowed is on the out-side of me, sifting in gradually. I’m sure I can’t make Burlington tonight anyway- it must be somewhere over on the other side of the state. In a small state, Vermont is about the largest-“
He interrupted his own train of thought by laughing aloud, and brought his motor to a stop the powdery highway which he had [been mentally condemning].
“I note, cropping out again as he locked the car, “ he grieved, “[or maybe I’m still dippy-typliod legs die hard]. Anyways, I’m going to see if this brook doesn’t wind far enough from the road somewhere soon for me to get in it without getting arrested in the process. I had no idea it got hot way here in May-“
He rolled under the barb-wire fence and scrambled into the underbrush of the woods that [sheltered] the road. Never-never that he could remember-had he been in a place so utterly still. The little brook,

About the Original Item

Date Added
November 7, 2013
Collection
Frances Parkinson Keyes Collection
Item Type
Draft
Early-writing
Citation
Frances Parkinson Keyes, “Early Draft of "Lady Blanche's Farm",” Omeka@CTL, accessed March 29, 2024, http://libraryexhibits.uvm.edu/omeka/items/show/1314.
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