Drafts of Jennings's story narrating an encounter between Fernando Pessoa and Luís de Camões at the Brasileira cafe in Lisbon (which Pessoa is known to have frequented and which is located near the Largo de Camões), resulting in Pessoa's poem "O Mostrengo" (from Mensagem). The earliest draft of this story is undated and titled "In the Brasileira" with a note in pencil: "X11." One double-spaced, apparently final draft bears very few marks in the text and carries Jennings's signature at the end. The other three drafts show editing or proofreading marks. One (double-spaced) is marked "uncorrected copy" and is signed with the date "9.12.87;" another (single-spaced) bears the label "Best copy;" the other (single-spaced) has no label. The drafts seem to have been produced in this order: (1) In the Brasileira, (2) the "uncorrected copy" (double-spaced), (3) unlabelled draft (single-spaced), (4) the "best copy" (single-spaced), (5) unlabelled, signed draft (double-spaced). See also the published version of this story in the journal Contrast (66) December 1988, Vol 17, No. 2.
Jennings, H. D. (Hubert Dudley),
"In the Brasileira (early draft) and At the Brasileira (four drafts)"
(1968).
Hubert Jennings papers.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:707814/
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 …
