BIB_ID
413552
Accession number
MA 13981.3
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956.
Display Date
1948 December 22.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 11.5 x 17.8 cm + envelope.
Notes
Postmarked: "London / 23 Dec / 1948."
Envelope, with stamp and postmark, addressed, "Tom Turner Esqre / Shawlands / 37 Bank Crest / Baildon / W Shipley / Yorks."
Manuscript of De la Mare's poem "The rose" is inscribed "To Tom / from Jack / Christmas / 1948."
Written on two small corresponce cards.
Envelope, with stamp and postmark, addressed, "Tom Turner Esqre / Shawlands / 37 Bank Crest / Baildon / W Shipley / Yorks."
Manuscript of De la Mare's poem "The rose" is inscribed "To Tom / from Jack / Christmas / 1948."
Written on two small corresponce cards.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Stating how much he enjoys Turner's letters, particularly when they relate news of mutual friends, and mentioning "Mr. Meredith", Siegfried Sassoon, and Redwood Anderson, along with several other individuals referred to only by their initials. With an autograph manuscript inscribed to Turner of De la Mare's poem in two stanzas entitled "The rose".
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