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Letter from Christopher Todd to Herbert Cahoon, Leeds, 1979 February 7 : typescript with manuscript corrections.

BIB_ID
446984
Accession number
MA 4733.74.1
Creator
Todd, Christopher, 1939- sender.
Display Date
Leeds, England, 1979 February 7
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 21 x 19.8 cm
Notes
Return address reads: "11, Cumberland Rd., Leeds, LS6 2EF / 7 February 1979". Address for the French Department at the University of Leeds printed at the top right corner and crossed out with black ink.
Todd mentions that the letter sent from Ruthven Todd to Bob Pocock is "preserved at the National Library of Scotland (MSS.Acc.4924)".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Thanking Herbert for sending him a xerox of multiple "catalogue cards" and of a letter sent from "Ruthven" (his father, Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, 1914-1978) to Bob Pocock; sharing that his father had previously mentioned his friendship with Cahoon to him; detailing his father's death; noting that he enclosed a copy of an obituary for Ruthven that was published in Majorca and written by Mark McShane, adding "The English obituaries were awful"; mentioning that Julian Symons will be publishing "a long personal memoir on Ruthven" in the "London Magazine"; sharing how various other writers plan to memorialize and honor his father; updating Herbert on his progress on completing a bibliography of his father's works.