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66249: Letter: To Marion Scott.

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posted on 2024-04-18, 14:48 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr">Feels ashamed about a previous 'grumbling' letter / thanks Marion Scott for her letters, and for help with his songs / glad that she like recent verses, and is including more / describes writing at the front / H.N. Howells / music / a photograph / books and requesting the 'Penny Poets' / availability of bread / desire for a salad and fresh food / describes a machine gun with a musical score / the infantry's taste in songs / a poem by John Masefield / the military situation / running in to acquaintances / wonders what Scott will think of new poems / the 'intellectual exercise' of writing verse and letters in war / a packet received by a fellow soldier from a girl / musing about what the girl is like / F.W. Harvey in a newspaper / requests a volume by John Masefield / includes 'Strange Service'. | </p><p>File description(s):</p><p>Envelope containing letter.<br>Feels ashamed about a previous 'grumbling' letter / thanks Marion Scott for her letters, and for help with his songs / glad that she like recent verses, and is including more / describes writing at the front / H.N. Howells / music / a photograph / books and requesting the 'Penny Poets' / availability of bread / desire for a salad and fresh food / describes a machine gun with a musical score / the infantry's taste in songs / a poem by John Masefield / the military situation / running in to acquaintances / wonders what Scott will think of new poems / the 'intellectual exercise' of writing verse and letters in war / a packet received by a fellow soldier from a girl / musing about what the girl is like / F.W. Harvey in a newspaper / requests a volume by John Masefield / includes 'Strange Service'.</p>

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7522.cpd | IG-41-32 | 6600.jpg | IG-41-32.jpg 6601.jpg | IG-41-32f1r.jpg 6602.jpg | IG-41-32f1v.jpg 6603.jpg | IG-41-32f2r.jpg 6604.jpg | IG-41-32f2v.jpg 6605.jpg | IG-41-32f3r.jpg 6606.jpg | IG-41-32f3v.jpg 6607.jpg | IG-41-32f4r.jpg 6608.jpg | IG-41-32f4v.jpg 6609.jpg | IG-41-32f5r.jpg 6610.jpg | IG-41-32f5v.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

27th July 1916

Date Created

27/07/1916

Spatial

France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Letter | Letter Poem within letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Number of Pages

11

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

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

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.1v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.2r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.2v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.3r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.3v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.4r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.4v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.5r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.32.5v

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

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

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