BIB_ID
396880
Accession number
MA 13406.20
Creator
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948.
Display Date
1946 March 22.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 13 x 16.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope postmarked 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).
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 acknowledging his birthday and reflecting on the increasing irrelevance of the day as he grows older and his friends die off ("so one is happier in avoiding festivals, and keeping birthdays quietly with memories."); congratulating him on his daughter's graduation from Oxford; expressing his surprise at hearing from Mr. Leonard Clark with the expectation that he will be submitting a piece to him for publication; mentioning Phyllis Bentley and Storm Jameson as Yorkshire authors worthy of note who seem to be neglected by the recipient in building his collection.
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