A SLIP OF PAPER SIGNED BY ENGLISH POET AND DRAMATIST JOHN DRINKWATER.

- A 3-1/2 inch high by 5 inch wide piece of cream-colored paper is signed "John Drinkwater" in black ink. The paper has been mounted on a 6-5/8 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide sheet of gray card with a small newspaper portrait of Drinkwater glued to the top right corner. A note on the poet has been penned in another hand on the top edge of the card. The paper is slightly rippled from the mounting. Good. English author John Drinkwater began publishing poetry with "The Death of Leander" in 1906. The first volume of his Collected Poems was published in 1923. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of a group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others. Drinkwater had his first major success with his play "Abraham Lincoln", which he followed up with other plays in a historical vein, including "Mary Stuart' and "Oliver Cromwell". He later became manager of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.