BIB_ID
396878
Accession number
MA 13406.10
Creator
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948.
Display Date
1939 January 30.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (4 pages) ; 11.5 x 17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Tom Turner Esqre / Shawlands / Bank Top / 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).
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).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking him for the book he received from him for Christmas but explaining that he already has a copy of it; commenting on the vast number of books in his personal library and his chief concern "not to add to them, but to find some home for them, where they will be kept together, before I have to leave them"; reflecting on the recent deaths of friends and contemporaries and the, to his mind, inappropriate manner in which their estates are frequently disposed of; mentioning that he is kept from going to the "Scottish exhibition" by his ailing lung and that he and his wife fear to travel to Italy owing to their mistrust of Mussolini.
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