BIB_ID
354620
Accession number
MA 8600
Creator
Barnes, Julian.
Display Date
[1980 March] 17.
Credit line
Gift of Alyce Toonk, 2013.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday 17th;" month and year of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
From PML 194959.
From PML 194959.
Provenance
Sent to Kathleen and Albert Barnes with PML 194959; by descent to the author and subsequently donated to English PEN, 2012; acquired by Alyce Toonk at the PEN benefit auction "First Editions, Second Thoughts" (London, Sotheby's, 21 May 2013, lot 3); gift of Alyce Toonk, 2013.
Summary
Sending them a copy of his first novel, Metroland, noting "the cover's jolly good, anyway, whatever you may think of the insides"; hoping that they like it, and asking for their opinion; mentioning that it will be discussed on Radio 4 the following week and noting that it has received some favorable reviews already, even though it will not be "actually published" until the 27th.
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