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ID
b59
Title
Innocence
Genre
Story
Page Count
6
Word Count
1220
Publisher
John O'London's Weekly
Publication Year
1932
Document Types
Comic Fiction
Original Manuscript (mss)
Topics
Childhood

A naughty boy lusts after the raspberries in a neighbour's garden, and is then trapped between the rage of both the owner and his mother.

A manuscript with an alternative title of 'A Speculation in the Angelic' is held in the collection of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, USA. (https://archives.iu.edu/catalog/InU-Li-VAD6063)

In John O'London's Weekly (August 27, 1932), Full score (London: Rich and Cowan, 1933), The Woman Who Had Imagination and Other Stories (1934), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940).