BIB_ID
372997
Accession number
MA 5142.58
Creator
Lewis, Alun, 1915-1944.
Display Date
[1941 Dec. 3].
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 11.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "John Bayliss Esq. / 86 Chesterton Rd., / Cambridge."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
With postmark and stamp; date is from postmark.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
With postmark and stamp; date is from postmark.
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Telling him that he can't send the three poems Bayliss requested for inclusion in an anthology because the poems are "copyrighted by [his] publishers"; wishing him luck in his quest for a publisher, but adding that he thinks he will have a "tough job, for anthologising is very much an inside job, ... a publishing racket"; adding that he is "not keen on being published with the poets" Bayliss mentions: "I'm not much of a poet, but I have my own ideas of what poetry has to do today & tomorrow & I don't think they square with [Henry] Treece & Co."
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