Autograph letter signed : "Mona Cottage / Boar's Hill", to [Louis Golding], "Sabbath" 1919 Dec. 14.

Record ID: 
372649
Accession number: 
MA 5141.6
Author: 
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974.
Credit: 
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes: 

Identity of recipient from contents of the letter; the salutation is "O King Live for Ever."
With a note from "C" to "k" concerning the Sidgwick & Jackson 1920 volume of "The Waggoner and Other Poems" and identifying Edmond Kapp as an "artist who seems to have disappeared."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of War Poetry related to World War I; see collection record (MA 5141) for more information.

Summary: 

Saying he "returned the book and pacified the librarian. Porter left yesterday taking with him my best piece of prose...I hope you were kind to Kapp, once he shared a lousy dugout with me and used to sing glees therein rauca voce. Are you in a poetic aeon? Even I have started a small string of rhymes. On my applying to Sassoon for my MSS - which by the way Sidgwick & Jackson appear to want - he replied that H.J. Massingham had them. He still has. Consequently I can't send you any to look at yet, but hope soon to do;" saying he is leaving for 14 days but "will send my new poems when & if completed."

Provenance: 
Kenneth A. Lohf.