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Autograph album

Combing the mud.jpg

Jessica's autograph album is filled with watercolours, poetry, short notes and sketches.

This sketch depicts soldiers in a trench, who speculate with black humour that their ranks might be increased if the mud were combed for ‘more men’.

It is a copy of ‘The Recruitment Problem Solved’ by Bruce Bairnsfather, who was a well-known cartoonist of life in the trenches.

By permission of the family of Jessica Taylor


Citation:
Autograph album,
Marsh's Library Exhibits: ‘Changed Utterly?’ curated by Elaine Doyle and Jason McElligott,
accessed May 20, 2025,
https://web.marshlibrary.ie/digi/exhibits/show/irishrevolution/item/625

15-Jessica Taylor Autograph 1A.jpg
Combing the mud.jpg
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