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66282: Letter: To Marion Scott.

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posted on 2024-04-18, 14:54 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Includes 'To England - A Note', in Marion Scott's hand / glad that Scott's health has improved / hoping for warmer weather / discusses 'By the Bierside' by John Masefield and Ivor Gurney's setting of it to music / mentions 'For England' and 'February Day' / discusses possible titles: 'Songs Before Dawn' / gives Scott leave to make changes / includes alterations for the 'Preface' to the collected volume / changes for 'To Certain Comrades' / gives Scott leave to deal with punctuation and 'Carol' / working on another sonnet / mentions potential publishers, with Sidgwick and Jackson as the preferred option / a new lyric forming beginning 'Starlight in Water'. |

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Envelope containing letter.
Includes 'To England - A Note', in Marion Scott's hand / glad that Scott's health has improved / hoping for warmer weather / discusses 'By the Bierside' by John Masefield and Ivor Gurney's setting of it to music / mentions 'For England' and 'February Day' / discusses possible titles: 'Songs Before Dawn' / gives Scott leave to make changes / includes alterations for the 'Preface' to the collected volume / changes for 'To Certain Comrades' / gives Scott leave to deal with punctuation and 'Carol' / working on another sonnet / mentions potential publishers, with Sidgwick and Jackson as the preferred option / a new lyric forming beginning 'Starlight in Water'.

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Identifier

7556.cpd | IG-41-71 | 6796.jpg | IG-41-71.jpg 6797.jpg | IG-41-71a.jpg 6798.jpg | IG-41-71f1r.jpg 6799.jpg | IG-41-71f1v.jpg 6800.jpg | IG-41-71f2r.jpg 6801.jpg | IG-41-71f2v.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

Mar-17

Date Created

01/03/1917 | 03/08/1915

Temporal Date

31/03/1917

Spatial

France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen | Pencil Pen

Type

Letter | Letter Poem within letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Number of Pages

6

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

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

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.71 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.71.1a | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.71.1r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.71.1v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.71.2r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.71.2v

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

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

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