BIB_ID
396835
Accession number
MA 13406.15
Creator
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948.
Display Date
1943 January 16.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 22.7 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and postcards written by Gordon Bottomley to Tom Turner. Tom Turner was an employee of the Bradford Post Office and a book collector. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually (see MA 13406.1-23).
Written on letterhead stationery printed "The Sheiling / Silverdale / Carnforth : Lancs."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "The Sheiling / Silverdale / Carnforth : Lancs."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking him for for sending him copies of "Hand & Soul" and "The stream's secret"; noting that he has not yet seen Walter De La Mare's new anthology ("it costs, as you say, 25/-; a potent reason"); explaining his difficulty in keeping up with his correspondence by quoting Robert Lewis Stevenson; oberservations on the value of reading, the inconveniences of amassing a large personal library, the declining stature of poetry in modern times, and his appreciation of Edith Sitwell's new poem, "Heart and mind".
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