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Letter from Thom Gunn, London, to Oscar Mellor, 1953 or 1954? : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
426720
Accession number
MA 5518.9
Creator
Gunn, Thom, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1953 or 1954.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Dated "Friday."
Possible date of writing inferred from content and "Fighting Terms" being published in 1954.
Written from "32 Somerset Road, / Wimbledon Common, / SW19."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Saying that he came back to England a few days ago and believes he has 4 or 5 poems on the next First Reading; explaining that he doesn't know which, but at least 2 are in Fighting terms and that it is likely he will have a poem in the New Statesman in the next month; stating that he brings this up for acknowledgments and asks what decision Mellor made for Fighting terms.