BIB_ID
127237
Accession number
MA 1617.370
Creator
Raleigh, Walter, 1861-1922.
Display Date
Liverpool, England, 1897?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written from "63, Canning Street, / Liverpool" on stationery engraved with the address.
The inventory of this collection suggests the year of writing of this letter may have been 1897.
The first page(s) of this letter are missing.
The inventory of this collection suggests the year of writing of this letter may have been 1897.
The first page(s) of this letter are missing.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Commenting on Henley's book of verse; saying "The effect of reading your book is that I want to write verse - serious verse - and the price of that I know, as divine. Ideas of poems flicker through my head every now & then & go out for want of decent attention paid to them. I went to Greenock & gave them a jade of a lecture. Soon I have to come to London to give three;" adding, in a postscript, "I should like to review you; but the M.E. simply won't accept suggestions form me. Also I am in vile arrears with it, not having written since early in December. Better perhaps stick to Burns, which sticks to me; I am going to do it, & then plant it where I can."
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