BIB_ID
423704
Accession number
MA 2092.7
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 from "5, White Rock / Hastings" to "Precious" 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 "Thy dear second letter is just come! - I ordered Campion posted on Wednesday evening, to greet thee this morning. This I hammered into 'the Child of the Hour' - I said - but no matter - thou hast these wave-riding ships, some on the crest, some in the trough! We love them together. Hennie, I did clasp the teeth of my little-band this morning ; & tried to tie a bow. Alas, it resembled, when complete a white, shaggy peony, drooping with heavy rain! But when by invitation I went in to say good morning to Amy, she admired it - so, Darling, has his reward. Merle your letters are so wonderful, they strike me silent. But my silence is the silence of the big sea, & a Kingdom in itself...Alack, I have no more gifts for Hennie - I like him to receive something every few hours - but I give him in perpetual sacrament & Real Presence myself. - Believe in the real presence - oh verily! Now we go out - a shopping! I fancy - No Battle - only Health - Good to love oo' Hennie, good to love oo' with. Hennie! My dearest! Farewell for a [illegible] / Michael."
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