BIB_ID
436125
Accession number
MA 23620.2
Creator
Goldschmidt, E. Ph. (Ernst Philip).
Display Date
Cannes, France, 1907 February 24.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature and the Kenneth Lohf Fund, 2020.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Goldschmidt lists the place and date of writing. The place of writing is "Hotel Gallia / Cannes / A. M. / France."
On stationery with the heading "E.P.G."
The status of this letter is not clear. It may be an incomplete letter (to which Brooke may have responded in MA 23620.1) or it may be a draft. It is not signed.
Part of a collection, MA 23620.1-5, consisting of a letter from Brooke to Goldschmidt, drafts of letters from Goldschmidt to Brooke, and notes by Goldschmidt. Each item in the collection is cataloged individually.
On stationery with the heading "E.P.G."
The status of this letter is not clear. It may be an incomplete letter (to which Brooke may have responded in MA 23620.1) or it may be a draft. It is not signed.
Part of a collection, MA 23620.1-5, consisting of a letter from Brooke to Goldschmidt, drafts of letters from Goldschmidt to Brooke, and notes by Goldschmidt. Each item in the collection is cataloged individually.
Provenance
E.P. Goldschmidt; Jacques Vellekoop. Purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd, March 2020.
Summary
Mentioning how much he has wanted to write to Brooke and how he has held himself back from doing so; describing his current feelings for Brooke; writing that his health is better and he has been playing golf every day; commenting on the landscape; mentioning that he is the midst of reading a collection of Baudelaire's letters ("There are some very curious bits in them"); adding that he is thinking of writing a play and describing the characters that might appear in it; saying that the play might be a means of demonstrating his belief that "a person is never complete without the other person he happens to talk to or think about"; writing further about this topic; commenting "But I shall never be able to write this play because my idea of the theatre does not permit of anything but beautiful verse being spoken on it. And this I am quite unable to write in any language."
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