BIB_ID
396859
Accession number
MA 13406.8
Creator
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948.
Display Date
1938 November 16.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (5 pages) ; 11.5 x 17.8 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 13406.1-21).
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 13406.1-21).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking him for sending him a copy of Mickle Drede and other verses and relating an anecdote concerning the bookseller T. Miles; providing some bibiographical observations in response to Turner's news of acquiring books by Rossetti and William Morris; praising Turner's poetry and looking back fondly on the poetry of the 1890s; regretting that he could not attend the "Yorkshire Authors' Dinner" and that he missed making the acquaintance of Phyllis Bentley; with a note concerning the inadequacy of civic and repertory theaters in performing his plays, and their mutual friend Alec [i.e. Alexander] Keighley.
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