A series of poems written by Jennings. "Broken Promise," "The Rondavel," "Alas," and "Victrix" are dated between 1924 and 1928, but they seem to have been retyped and updated around 1968. "On My Birthday" is dated 12 Nov 1971. A note on the page of "The Rondavel" indicates "Reduced from Midsummer and Mid-rapture in South African Anthology of Verse 1948," which suggests that a version of this poem and possibly others were previously published.
The Hubert Jennings papers is an extensive collection of materials created or collected by Jennings in the course of his research on the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa focused particularly on the time Pessoa lived in Durban, South Africa. Jennings published …