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Typescript signed with autograph corrections from the Georges Hugnet archives.

Typescript of Gertrude Stein's poetic interpretation of the poem Children by Georges Hugnet (1929), the text that led to a rift between the two authors.
Autograph note and signature by Gertrude Stein in fine: " George [sic] Hugnet by Gertrude Stein". Some forty autograph corrections by Gertrude Stein (alterations to letters, commas, spelling) and an autograph tercet added at the end of part XIX :

"They Will not be won
One Might be one
Might one be one."

The book presenting both the French and English versions never saw the light of day. Hugnet wanted the name of Gertrude Stein, the translator, to appear in small type, while the author described her poem as a "reflection" of her own work.Children and wanted to appear as co-author of the book. This disagreement over form and content proved fatal to their friendship, and Gertrude Stein published her text alone in 1931 - under the presses of Plain Edition, which she ran with Alice B. Toklas - taking care to give it a new, unequivocal title: "Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded written on a poem by Georges Hugnet".
This title was later added in pen on the first page of the typescript by Myrtille Hugnet.

Georges Hugnet drew, in graphite on the back of the last page, several attempts at cover designs and typographical layouts. 

George Hugnet's typescript of the poem, also from his archives, is attached - 31 pages in-4.