Letter: To Marion Scott.

Item

Title

Letter: To Marion Scott.

Identifier

7526.cpd

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

A poem that received a fee / worried that it is 'old-fashioned' / having received a volume by Lawrence Binyon / Schubert and Schumann and setting poetry to music / thanks Marion Scott for help with poems / discusses W.B. Yeats' poetry / mentions the poet John Masefield / includes 'Song' ['Only the wanderer'] / discusses a parcel / includes 'West Country' / strafing / wants to read some of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren's verse / wants to know if a collected volume of his poems would compare to his friend F.W. Harvey's / the state of the war.

Date

11th January 1917

Date Created

1917-01-11

Spatial Coverage

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Letter

number of pages

10

Contributor

Alisa Miller