BIB_ID
396840
Accession number
MA 13406.3
Creator
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948.
Display Date
1936 December 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 16.4 x 12.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "T. Turner Esqre / Shawlands / Bank Crest / Baildon / Yorkshire."
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."
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."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning recent difficulties with his health, a newspaper article sent to him by Turner about himself and his personal library, and the decline in modern journalism's literary merits when compared to that of the nineteenth century; with observations on some of his plays which Turner had written of favorably.
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