[Robert Lynd, Irish journalist and essayist at whose house James Joyce held his wedding reception.] Typescript, with Autograph Emendations in pencil, of the commencement of Chapter 7, ‘Kinsale’, of his 1912 book ‘Rambles in Ireland’.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. ‘Rambles in Ireland’ was published in 1912, with illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. On one side each of four 4to leaves of aged and worn paper. The first leaf carries a covering page on which is the typed word ‘KINSALE’; above this Lynd has written in pencil: ‘26 / Rambles in Ireland / (By Robert Lynd) / Chapter VII’. The three pages which follow carry the text: title and 21 lines on the first, and twenty-five lines apiece on the second and third. On the first page one sentence is entirely recast: ‘[...] but of rest and the look of the place, I cannot say whether Parson Tomms and Parson Mead and the mayor have left any worthy successors. Kinsale is one of those quiet southern towns, which look almost as though they had been forgotten at the bottom of a sea of still air.’ becomes ‘but of quietness & the site of a battle, I cannot say whether Parson Mead and the mayor have left any worthy successors. But I deny upon oath, however, that it is or ever was a vile place[.] Kinsale is one of those quaint and still southern towns, which look almost as though they had been forgotten at the bottom of a motionless sea of air.’ The second page has thirteen minor emendations, and the third two. The reverse of the final leaf is filled with infant drawings of anthropomorphic farm animals.