BIB_ID
305333
Accession number
MA 1967.63
Creator
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
Display Date
ca. 1917-1933 [copied ca. 1950].
Credit line
Gift of Ray Nash, 1959-1960.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 27.2 cm
Notes
Copy of original with revisions and deletions.
Original letter written between ca. 1917-1945 from Hotel Metropole, Locarno.
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 between ca. 1917-1945 from Hotel Metropole, Locarno.
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 in detail his "first crossing of the Alps in 1905"; indicating that Bartholomew from Cambridge was staying at a nearby village and that they had lunched together and then joined him in the mountains the next day; describing a boat ride to Isola Bella during which they encountered two of Mussolini's spies; describing gravel boats on the lake and sun-bathing on a sandy "lido"; indicating that they'll return to London via Paris tomorrow; acknowledging that he still needs to respond to Miss Granniss' letter.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.6 cm)
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