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66260: 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

Discusses music composed by Ivor Gurney / verses by Scott / requests a parcel containing matches / Mark Twain / Scott's health / being in front-line trenches in a 'soft' sector / the weather and landscape / enjoying work as a signaller / news of Russia and the war's near end? / being cold / naval news / requests books to exchange / the possibility of Scott sending a parcel / itemizes reactions to the war and experience in the army / creates a musical score to mimic sound of a shell / discusses his book ('Severn and Somme') and poems / thanks Scott for having sent a copy of the 'Times Literary Supplement' / describes the site of an airplane flying over the trenches.

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Identifier

7533.cpd | IG-70-2f | 7343.jpg | IG-70-2f1r.jpg 7344.jpg | IG-70-2f1v.jpg 7345.jpg | IG-70-2f2r.jpg 7346.jpg | IG-70-2f2v.jpg 7347.jpg | IG-70-2f3r.jpg 7348.jpg | IG-70-2f3v.jpg 7349.jpg | IG-70-2f4r.jpg 7350.jpg | IG-70-2f4v.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

December - September 1917

Date Created

01/12/1917

Temporal Date

30/09/1917 | 01/10/1917

Spatial

France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Letter | Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Number of Pages

8

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

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

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 70.2.1r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 70.2.1v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 70.2.2r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 70.2.2v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 70.2.3r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 70.2.3v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 70.2.4r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 70.2.4v

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

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

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