BIB_ID
396838
Accession number
MA 13406.2
Creator
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948.
Display Date
1936 November 5.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (4 pages) ; 16.4 x 12.8 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."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "The Sheiling, / Silverdale, / Carnforth."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning some pamphlets Turner sent him and a recent flare-up in his lungs which prevented him from writing sooner; his recollections of Turner as an employee of the Bradford post office, with a reference to their mutual acquaintance and "piratical benefactor T.B. Mosher"; the consolations poetry may offer in the face of "unhappiness and ill fortune" and the course of his own career as a poet, including his early aspirations as a pianist which were cut short by illness; his discovery of poetry at a relatively late age (My interest in poetry began in a minute, on a day in May 1893, through a growing liking for pictures. The poet was Rossetti."); the onset of the lung ailment which was to disable him to varying degrees thereafter; praising his recipients skill as a poet and his translation of Verlaine's "Il pleure dans mon coeur" ("I once wrought long at it. But my version was to fit Debussy's music, to please my beloved neighbor J.A. Fuller-Maitland, the music critic - and he was so exacting that it never got itself finished."); mentioning his play the Eagle and sending him some books.
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