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Letter from Thom Gunn, New York, to Oscar Mellor, 1970 June 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
426740
Accession number
MA 5518.27
Creator
Gunn, Thom, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1970 June 8.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.5 cm + envelope
Notes
Written in upper right corner "as from: c/o White, / 7 Powis Court, / Powis Square, / London W.17."
Written on verso of envelope "Gunn, c/o Lippard, / 138 Prince St., / NY, NY 10012, USA."
Envelope addressed to "Oscar Mellor, / 1 Tugela Terrace, / Clyst St. Mary, / Exeter, / Devon, / England."
Postmarked and stamped.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Talking about how it has been 6 months since he heard from Mellor, who probably remembers Gunn being a lousy correspondent; saying that he is enclosing the 2 poems Mellor asked for; giving his address and whereabouts for the next couple months; adding how someone showed him a copy of the first edition of Fighting terms the other day, and it had John Masefield's bookplate and thoughts "indecent clever ugly intellectual -- last poem good example."