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Henry Lawson, "The Men Who Sleep with Danger".
Autograph manuscript of a poem of eleven stanzas, signed and dated by Henry Lawson at Sydney, June 1912. The poem has been very heavily corrected and two stanzas were omitted entirely. It was published by the Bulletin on 3rd October, 1912. According to Colin Roderick (Henry Lawson, A Life, 1991, p. 318), Henry Lawson was so incensed by the corrections made to another manuscript he wrote at the same time that he sent a furious note to George Robertson saying,
"Didn't want to bother you, only to show how my work is being mutilated again. ... Please send down copy I left Friday ('Men Who Sleep with Danger'), for I'm going to make it worse than Hell and London East in Bully office this morning."
Lawson Collection (Lawson 152) |