BIB_ID
372891
Accession number
MA 5142.34
Creator
Cecil, David, 1902-1986.
Display Date
ca. 1961.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
On letterhead stationery of "Red Lion House, / Cranborne, / Dorset."
Probable year is based on the publication of Davie's Piers Prodigal in Jan. 1961.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Probable year is based on the publication of Davie's Piers Prodigal in Jan. 1961.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Thanking him for sending his poems [Davie's Piers Prodigal]; writing, "you have a lively ... sense of natural beauty & its divine overtones & also a sense of the phrase that will convey these"; mentioning that he "went to see Siegfried Sassoon last week" and they talked of Davie.
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