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Notes for a letter from Ernst Philip Goldschmidt to Rupert Brooke, 1907? : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
436126
Accession number
MA 23620.3
Creator
Goldschmidt, E. Ph. (Ernst Philip).
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1907?.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature and the Kenneth Lohf Fund, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 14.1 x 24 cm
Notes
Based on the similarity of these texts to passages in MA 23620.2, they may have been drafted in 1907.
Written in two different hands.
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
Consists of two passages: in one, Goldschmidt describes how he comes to idolize a person and writes "And just now it is you, who are so unlucky to have been elected as a temple for my gods"; in the other, he begs his correspondent to write and says "Do not write what is going on in Cambridge[.] I only want to know what is going on with you. Let me hear a little what happens to you when you are alone or with your books."