Greybeards at play, and other comic verse / G. K. Chesterton ; edited by John Sullivan.

Annotations: front end paper [blue pen] Aidan Mackey

Enclosures: [Folded piece of paper with printed text and annotation in blue pen] Text reads: Poems Included in Marie Smith’s ‘Collect Nonsense & Light Verse’ which are, in fact, not by G.K.C. Page 19. Meditation in Rhyme. 23. Nevercometrue. 35. Whines from the Wood. 69. Triolet (‘I Wish I Were A Jellyfish’) by G.C. Heseltine. 82. Mind and Matter. 99. I Thank the Goodness. 100. Song of the Superior Vermin. 100. Futurist’s Song. 109. Clerihew on John Morley. 117. “” Laurence Oliphant. 117. “” Ruskin. 123. “” Lord Roseberry. 123. “” Dr. Parker. 131. Birth Control. [blue pen] Sent to Geio 21 Feb 05 [Index card with annotations in black and blue pen] [black pen] I Wish I Were a Jellyfish Triolet. Col Lands. [scored out with blue pen] [blue pen] GK’s wkly 24 Nov 1928. Not by GKC -see over [arrow]. [Reverse side, notes in blue pen] NOTE: In a phone conversation on May 10th 1994 Kevin Grant of Ignatius Press told me that this triolet was by G.C. Heseltine. It appeared in GK’s Weekly (24 Nov 1928) over the initials G.C.K. In GK’s own bound volume Dorothy Collins had amended this in pencil to ‘GKC’, but we now know that it would have been ‘GCH’ for George Coulahan Heseltine. It was collected into the 1974 edtn of Greybeards + into ‘Collected Nonsense + Light Verse’ (Xanadu 1987). [Folded lined piece of paper with notes in blue pen] Xmas 1930
Mr Wikrawab went fishing
In a pool of sweet content
He pulled out ‘Grey Old Men at Play’
The hook was badly bent

He cackled ‘Oh, Sir Chesterton’
However was it clear
To you, that all the best fun
Comes in your eightieth year?

Mama

Ins in ‘Greybeards at Play’ 1930 edtn