BIB_ID
292279
Accession number
MA 2234.31
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956.
Credit line
Gift of Gordon N. Ray, 1962.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Includes a short comic poem on p. 2.
Part of a large collection of autograph and typed letters from Walter de la Mare to Tom Turner. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2234.1-84).
With postmark and stamp.
Part of a large collection of autograph and typed letters from Walter de la Mare to Tom Turner. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2234.1-84).
With postmark and stamp.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Apologizing for his last letter in which he mistakenly added an autograph note addressed to "my love"; blaming the mistake on the "weakness of human nature and the imbecility of this superannuated representative of it"; discussing the volumes of [George] Darley and [Thomas Lovell] Beddoes that Turner loaned to him; mentioning a letter Turned received from Algernon Blackwood; congratulating him on the dedication of "The Fortunate Lady" [by Frank Swinnerton].
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