BIB_ID
423689
Accession number
MA 2092.4
Creator
Field, Michael.
Display Date
Hastings, England, 1897 February.
Credit line
Gift of H. Bradley Martin, 1960.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.3 x 12/0 cm
Notes
Written to "My Merle" and signed "Michael."
Letters from Katharine Bradley to Edith Cooper are variously signed as "Michael" and "The Master" and written to Miss Cooper as "Merle" and "Hennie."
This letter is part of a collection of correspondence by and to Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper dating from 1888 to 1910. See the collection record for more information (MA 2092.1-48).
Letters from Katharine Bradley to Edith Cooper are variously signed as "Michael" and "The Master" and written to Miss Cooper as "Merle" and "Hennie."
This letter is part of a collection of correspondence by and to Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper dating from 1888 to 1910. See the collection record for more information (MA 2092.1-48).
Provenance
Gift of H. Bradley Martin, 1960.
Summary
Saying "Good night! I am wild & lonely in my little back bedroom. All genial stars settle round my Merle! I lie inland looking towards the Boy! Nighty, Nighty! Heaven be with 'oo. / Morning / -the birds do not sing here 'hey ding-a-ding-ding' - the salt has got into their little throats - a bird must sing inland. - at my lonely breakfast I look forth in the ravening sea. Alas! the pier, just opposite, a big bone sticking in the monster's throat. Grey rawness & wind; but all my flesh rises up to welcome the Infinite, - the 24 hours' cure is being wrought in me, & home on Heaven's wings to [illegible] to-morrow! I was nuda-nudissima when the Maid brought thy jewel-letter to my door. This is the first of my letters for which a casket of infinite price must be bought - Amy's bell rings - I rush forth to post this. I must have a minute alone by the sea. By this time thou hast received. - Hennie! my All-one / Michael."
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