BIB_ID
446365
Accession number
MA 4733.67:2
Creator
Skelton, Robin, sender.
Display Date
Hull, England, 1951 August?
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.8 cm
Notes
Return address reads: "64 Sutton Rd, / Beverley High Rd, / HULL".
Note on page 1: "Rec'd" written in pencil in unknown hand beside "Sep 1 1951" stamped in blue ink.
Letter written over the course of several days. Page 1 was written on "Thursday", the top of page 2 was written on "Sunday", and the bottom of page 2, as well as pages 3 and 4, was written on "Wednesday".
Note on page 1: "Rec'd" written in pencil in unknown hand beside "Sep 1 1951" stamped in blue ink.
Letter written over the course of several days. Page 1 was written on "Thursday", the top of page 2 was written on "Sunday", and the bottom of page 2, as well as pages 3 and 4, was written on "Wednesday".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Informing Herbert that he received the books that Herbert sent, as well as "a very good book of MSS by Lindley Williams Hubbell", though they arrived when he was "visiting Geoffrey Keynes"; sharing that he finds Herbert's book "Thanatopsis" to be "a fine collection" and that he finds The Tiger's Eye to be "very exciting, though sometimes only exciting"; updating Herbert on his life, noting, "Since last I wrote I have got my M.A."; sharing his opinions on the The Festival of Britain, calling it "very wearying - but fairly worth-while"; noting that he plans to write to William Jay Smith; recounting managerial disagreements from The Lotus Press; asking Herbert's opinion on the possibility of introducing advertisements into The Lotus Press' releases.
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