64830: Letter: To Gordon Bottomley / Girl to Soldier on Leave

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posted on 2024-05-02, 16:14 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Describes having been taken ill and sent to hospital, hence having more leisure to write / discusses various poems from Gordon Bottomley's 'Chambers of Imagery' / mentions a previous letter and hope that Bottomley's health is good / has not received a photograph from Bottomley but hopes to / desires one day to sketch Bottomley / encloses pencil draft of poem 'Girl to Soldier', later 'Girl to Soldier on Leave' / hopes that he will have time to begin 'The Unicorn'.
Pencil draft of poem that later becomes 'Girl to Soldier on Leave'. Included with letter to Gordon Bottomley. Describes having been taken ill and sent to hospital, hence having more leisure to write / discusses various poems from Gordon Bottomley's 'Chambers of Imagery' / mentions a previous letter and hope that Bottomley's health is good / has not received a photograph from Bottomley but hopes to / desires one day to sketch Bottomley / hopes that he will have time to begin 'The Unicorn'.

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Identifier

5221.cpd | 4426.jpg | IRBL103-c13323-49.jpg 4427.jpg | IRBL103-c13323-50.jpg 4428.jpg | IRBL103-c13323-51.jpg

Creator

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)

Date

Oct-17

Date Created

15/10/1917

Temporal Date

31/10/1917

Spatial

France

Source

Folio | Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Letter | Letter Poem within letter

Pages

1, 2, 3

Number of Pages

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The British Library / The Laurence Binyon Literary Estate / The Gordon Bottomley Literary Estate

Collection ID

Loan 103/77: Rosenberg Letters I512 E | Loan 103/77: Rosenberg Letters I512 E | Loan 103/77: Rosenberg Letters I512 E

Repository Name

The British Library

Repository Address

96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Letters Poems within Letters

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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