BIB_ID
81512
Accession number
MA 4439.1
Creator
Carr, J. L. (Joseph Lloyd), 1912-1994.
Display Date
1982 April 20.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 20.3 cm
Notes
On stationery with the colophon of the Quince Tree Press and the following information: "J. L. Carr / Publisher / 27 Mill Dale Road / Kettering / (0536-514995)."
The Morgan owns two manuscript drafts of A Month in the Country (MA 3971-3973), given by Carr to the Library in 1983.
The Morgan owns two manuscript drafts of A Month in the Country (MA 3971-3973), given by Carr to the Library in 1983.
Provenance
From Charles Ryskamp, director of the Morgan from 1969 to 1986.
Summary
Commenting on his novel A Month in the Country: "Friends told me the BBC parson preached his midnight sermon at New Years Eve on it and claimed it was a story of Spiritual Renewal. Now I meant it to be a Love Story without Sex (very difficult to write these days). And then a vicar's wife in Cambridge told a mutual acquaintance that it was 'oozing with sex.' So I give up. Well no -- I think I'll re-read it!"; discussing the idea of the Morgan Library acquiring the manuscript of the novel; mentioning that he has just returned from a stay with Edward Thomas's nephew, who works in the War Office compiling information about British intelligence during World War II; adding that he hears A Month in the Country is "circulating in photo-copy at the Brooklyn College of Dramatic Art. Now there must be a story there!"
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