Reilly 51. only 2 other copies found in World Cat. Wales and Australia. Tipped in: letter: "22 Oct. 1920, Union-Castle Line, R.M.S 'Balmoral Castle', "Dear Sir Mrs Seton suggested my sending you the enclosed book of verses in case any of them should appeal to you for music. If they should c/o Standard Bank J.S. Africa Capetown will find me for the next five months. Yours faithfully, H.F. Provost Battersby. Montague Phillips Esq. The Homestead, Eston"

cf Stanford Companion of Victorian Fiction. p 510 Henry Francis Prevost Battersby. Graduated Sandhurst but became a journalist to cover the Boer War. Then rejoined to serve in WW1.