BIB_ID
193116
Accession number
MA 4656.1-5
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956.
Display Date
London, England, undated.
Credit line
Purchased, 1990.
Description
5 items (15 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Two of the letters are written from "5 Worbeck Road, / Anerley." De la Mare lived at that address from 1908-1912.
The letters are undated but in her book "Poet to Poet: Edward Thomas' Letters to Walter de la Mare" (Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books, 2012) Judy Kendall published letters from Thomas to de la Mare from 1906 through 1917.
The letters are undated but in her book "Poet to Poet: Edward Thomas' Letters to Walter de la Mare" (Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books, 2012) Judy Kendall published letters from Thomas to de la Mare from 1906 through 1917.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 1990.
Summary
Being a small collection of five autograph letters signed from Walter de la Mare to Edward Thomas on matters personal and literary, including a fragment of his poem "The Bees' Song" and a six-line epitaph in verse. Letters in the collection have been described individually in five separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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