BIB_ID
193843
Accession number
MA 23576
Creator
Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 1863-1944.
Display Date
Stanway, England, 1927 August 6.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the special gift of Jo Zach Miller IV, 1985.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.5 x 11.4 cm
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead "Stanway, / Cheltenham." On the lefthand side: "Station, / Toddington, / 3/4 mile." On the righthand side: "Telegraph, / Stanway."
Acquired as part of a collection of thirteen letters to Cowper from Lillie Langtry, Kenneth Grahame, and other individuals. This collection was originally accessioned as MA 4320.
Acquired as part of a collection of thirteen letters to Cowper from Lillie Langtry, Kenneth Grahame, and other individuals. This collection was originally accessioned as MA 4320.
Summary
Sending greetings: "How fares the battle? Are the County families lying prostrate upon the field and their war crys of 'cut by the county' and 'ought we to visit them' silenced for ever?! Or are you chained and muzzled -- (Heaven help your warder!)"; describing a recent boating trip with Clara Rogers; offering literary opinions: "Do you know Mr. T. Shandy in fiction? I have just become acquainted with Uncle Toby and like him better than anyone I have met since I finished Mr. Dickins and Dumas;" writing "I liked Mr. [John Claus] Voss's work and am very much intrigued about the mechanism of a sea anchor;" saying that he must be off to play croquet with his godfather ("That sounds prudent enough doesn't it") and adding that the other day he stole a can of tar and tarred over a noticeboard advertising a hotel, "a horrible thing that was desecrating a country lane."
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