BIB_ID
440965
Accession number
MA 13112.30
Creator
Dawkins, R. M. (Richard MacGillivray), 1871-1955, sender.
Display Date
Llanddulas, Wales, 1944 June 20
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.9 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Written from: Plas Dulas, Llanddulas Abergele Denbighshire,
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Regretting that he missed seeing him at Oxford when he went there to hear Measure for measure, and noting that his friend Louis Murphy went; complaining of the weather and lack of rain and the bad effect it has on the berries, mentioning his bog garden and the success of his blue poppies; expressing sympathy for John Mavrogordato and his anxiety over (his son) Michael, exclaiming "oh damn these wars"; informing Balston that he will be giving the Taylorian Modern Language lecture next spring at Oxford.
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