66217: Letter: To Marion Scott.

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posted on 2024-04-18, 14:42 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Describes being back in the trenches / discusses possibly substituting 'Firelight' for 'Music' / Marion Scott's book / asks Scott to please write letters / is unsure of when there will be time to write long letters again / comments on the strangeness of writing about 'pleasant things' in the current landscape, which he compares to something out of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. |

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Envelope containing letter.
Describes being back in the trenches / discusses possibly substituting 'Firelight' for 'Music' / Marion Scott's book / asks Scott to please write letters / is unsure of when there will be time to write long letters again / comments on the strangeness of writing about 'pleasant things' in the current landscape, which he compares to something out of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.

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Identifier

7489.cpd | IG-41-66 | 6773.jpg | IG-41-66.jpg 6774.jpg | IG-41-66f1r.jpg 6775.jpg | IG-41-66f1v.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

23rd February 1917

Date Created

23/02/1917 | 15/02/1917

Spatial

France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Letter | Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3

Number of Pages

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives / The Ivor Gurney Estate

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.66 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.66.1r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.66.1v

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Letters

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