The Mystery [Rosamond Lehmann's copy]

pp 20. Rosamond Lehmann's copy of Hodgson's poems, inscribed and dated while studying at Girton College, Cambridge. Lehmann has written her full name on the upper cover: 'Rosamond Nina Lehmann 1920', acquiring the book seven years after its first publication. The printed wrapper is marked and stained with a small triangle missing from the lower cover near the spine. The original sewing is present and the text with its woodcuts collates complete. The association is an intriguing one as Lehmann mentions in her autobiography being 'haunted' by lines written by Hodgson from her 'early teens'. Lehmann's first novel, Dusty Answer, was published in 1927.