puttersome for a long-distance run; you’re coming, aren’t you?
... puttersome for a long - distance run . MORTON . Take mine . It's moored at the wharf . That will get you over in good time . JERRY [ facetiously ] 180,000 h.p. turbines - eh , Morton ? But you’re coming , aren’t you ? MORTON . I ...
ex Alice Evelyn Philipps, Oddments: A Book of Plays (1938) : 139 : link
that a snippet, the only landing ex a search for “puttersome”) —
second landing —
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and so who was Alice Evelyn?
- The enchanted lake; a sylvan play, by Alice Evelyn Philipps (San Francisco, The Little Leaf Press, 1924)
U California copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link - Oddments: A Book of Plays (Berkeley, Calif., By the author’s own hand, 1938). 324 pages.
contains : Shadows: a trilogy: Peter Knows. The swan signs. Francia. — These mortals! — The enchanted lake. — Cuban glow. — The prince’s quest.
LoC : permalink - The stuff of life, a reminiscence. (Berkeley, Calif., By the author’s own hand, 1942). 306 pages.
LoC : permalink - The chaste cocotte, a glance at the ways and manners of the latest, but one, of the decadent eras [by] Alice Evelyn Philipps. (1945)
an edition of fifty copies, set by hand and printed by the author
LoC subject : Récamier, Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777-1849.
UC Santa Cruz copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link - Australian carnival, a Victorian incident. (Santa Cruz, California; “Copyright, 1946 [corrected to read 1947]”). 156 pages
hathitrust : link (limited search only)
LoC : permalinkprinted dedication : “To Sydney of the nineties / city of dreams / when at the age of twenty / I first wrote this book”
in progress.
13 February 2025