A very important and lovely full autograph manuscript by perhaps the most important voice for “mystical” Christianity in the 20^th century. She was influential on C. S. Lewis, Tolkien, and her posthumous works were edited by Charles Williams. A beautiful item.

Anything autographed or in manuscript by Evelyn Underhill is incredibly rare and this is an especially fine example.

In full:

I come in the little things,
Saith the Lord;
Not borne on morning wings
Of majesty; but I have set my feet
Amidst the delicate and bladed wheat
That springs triumphant in the furrowed sod—
There do I dwell, in weakness and in power;
Not broken or divided, said our God!
In your straight garden plot I come to flower;
About your porch my vine,
Meek, fruitful, doth entwine,
Waits, at the threshold, Love's appointed hour.

Evelyn Underhill

In very good condition on a fine gray paper, boldly inked and signed, complete on one side of a quarter sheet. It would be difficult to imagine a more appropriate framing example.