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Letter from George Douglas, Tarifa, to James S. Cotton, 1894 January 17.

BIB_ID
196199
Accession number
MA 14057
Creator
Douglas, George, 1856-1935, sender.
Display Date
Tarifa, Spain, 1894 January 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.7 x 13.2 cm
Notes
Douglas's poem "Winter exile in the South" was published in volume 45 of The Academy, January 27, 1894.
In pencil in an unidentified hand at foot of page 1: ?House with Green Shutters.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Submitting a poem ("Winter exile in the South") for publication in The Academy, and remarking in reference to the the subject of the accompanying verses, "I think it is true that our love of flowers depends in the first place on the associations which they have for us, & only in the second place on their intrinsic beauty."; with the poem written out by Douglas on page 2 of the letter.