BIB_ID
305012
Accession number
MA 1967.18
Creator
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
Display Date
1931 Apr. 24.
Credit line
Gift of Ray Nash, 1959-1960.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
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.
Written from "16 Clifford's Inn, London E.C.4."
Written from "16 Clifford's Inn, London E.C.4."
Provenance
Gift of Ray Nash in 1959 and 1960.
Summary
Complaining of his general state of mind and various mundane obstacles; philosophizing about printing; downplaying his social life and indicating that he only regularly sees [Stanley?] Morison and John Johnson, and rarely even sees Emery Walker or Wilfred Merton; discussing progress on projects and mentioning having seen [Daniel Berkeley?] Updike's "Prayer Book" at the British Museum; indicating their return to New York on "one of the slow (and cheap) American Merchant Line boats" in mid-July; enclosing for his critique a draft for a possible preface to the Odyssey.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.6 cm)
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