Letter: To Marion Scott.

Item

Title

Letter: To Marion Scott. See all items with this value

Identifier

7563.cpd

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937) See all items with this value

Abstract

Written from the Bangour War Hospital. Discusses virtues of writing and writing verse in particular in pen vs. pencil, as a soldier / includes 'After Music' / notes that the mail arrived while writing the poem / concerned about a package sent to France and possibly lost / reports that Annie Drummond, a VAD nurse at the hospital, has borrowed his copy of F.W. Harvey's 'Gloucester Friends' / discusses the volume.

Date

8th October 1917

Date Created

1917-10-08

Spatial Coverage

Edinburgh, Scotland See all items with this value

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem within letter

number of pages

6

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Item sets

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The Ivor Gurney Collection

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