BIB_ID
304944
Accession number
MA 1967.6
Creator
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
Display Date
1919 May 3 [copied ca. 1950].
Credit line
Gift of Ray Nash, 1959-1960.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 25.7-27.2 cm
Notes
Copy of original with revisions and deletions.
Original letter written May 3, 1919 from Park Side, Cambridge.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed and revised typed and autograph copies of letters to Henry Watson Kent. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Original letter written May 3, 1919 from Park Side, Cambridge.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed and revised typed and autograph copies of letters to Henry Watson Kent. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of Ray Nash in 1959 and 1960.
Summary
Recalling a "hilarious evening we had recently" involving Henry Festing Jones, Manny Forbes, and the reading aloud of Daisy Ashford's "Young Visiters"; describing his friend A. T. Bartholomew and early evening bike rides; expressing his delight at having been invited to lunch with Sir William Osler, Charles Sayle, and F. J. H. Jenkinson, and describing a walk they took during which Jenkinson fell behind collecting bits of foil to "[help] the war effort"; describing a lecture series given by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch at Jesus College and mentioning that A. E. Housman was in the audience recently; mentioning having had dinner with Capt. S. C. Roberts; discussing his sailing adventures; recalling having met a Dr. Bull who was an expert on sheep ticks.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.6 cm)
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