BIB_ID
419179
Accession number
MA 4656.5
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956.
Display Date
London, England, undated.
Credit line
Purchased, 1990.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 14.1 cm
Notes
Thomas published "George Borrow, the man and his books" in 1912.
There is no salutation and therefore it is likely the first one or two pages are missing.
The letter is undated but in her book "Poet to Poet: Edward Thomas' Letters to Walter de la Mare" (Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books, 2012) Judy Kendall published letters from Thomas to de la Mare from 1906 through 1917.
There is no salutation and therefore it is likely the first one or two pages are missing.
The letter is undated but in her book "Poet to Poet: Edward Thomas' Letters to Walter de la Mare" (Bridgend, Wales: Seren Books, 2012) Judy Kendall published letters from Thomas to de la Mare from 1906 through 1917.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 1990.
Summary
Asking if he's seen Davies's new book or any reviews of it; discussing Borrow saying "Apropos of Borrow - wasn't it Pater who wouldn't learn French - or read it - for fear of influencing his style? How did B's 30 languages affect his? And isn't it rare for an imaginative mind to have that kind of memory - or wasn't B. imaginative? I have always connected him - without any known reason - with Cobbett. Have you ever read C's Grammar? Let me hear soon how you are & forgive me for not writing before...And try if you possibly can to spend an evening here on your way home;" adding, in a postscript, If you would perhaps prefer to be without the noise of the children- couldn't we have a long quiet talk in town somewhere. There's lots I want to talk about that won't go into a letter;" continuing on the verso, with 19 lines of the 22 lines of his poem "The Bees' Song which would be published in "Peacock Pie" in June 1913; beginning with "sleek, striped & hairy / The steed of the Fairy / Princess of Zee" and ending with "To solace the Princess / of far-away Zee;" missing the first three lines in a poem of three stanzas, 6 lines in the first, 6 lines in the second and 10 lines in the third.
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