BIB_ID
446363
Accession number
MA 4733.67:1
Creator
Skelton, Robin, sender.
Display Date
Hull, England, 1951 May 12
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Letter includes an original poem by Skelton titled: "Letter to X".
Return address reads: "64 Sutton Rd, / Beverley High Rd, / HULL".
Return address reads: "64 Sutton Rd, / Beverley High Rd, / HULL".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Thanking Herbert for the "long and interesting letter"; sharing condolences for Herbert's message that poetry in the United States "is in as poor a shape as it is" and that the literary magazine The Tiger's Eye has stopped running; sharing his challenges getting published in order to convey to Herbert that "if you were to handle my poems for American magazines, and I yours for English ones, I would most certainly be getting the best of the bargain"; discussing the dismal state of poetry and poetry criticism in England; expressing support for Herbert's various projects; sharing updates on his work with The Lotus Press.
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