"A Medium in Which I Seek Relief": Manuscripts of American Sailors 1919-1940

Cecil Northrop "Me" Title Page

The title page and first eleven pages of Cecil Northrop's "Me" (1923-1924) are also available (with zoom function) on Maritime Digital Collections. The diary is rich in literary references.


Transcription with annotations:

"Me"

With Apologies to R. Haggard

'But to thine own self be true" -Shakespear[e]

I hold it true that thoughts are things, Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings; And after you have quite forgot Or all outgrown some vanished thought, Back to your mind to make its home, A dove or raven, it will come.

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