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66284: Letter: To Marion Scott.

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Describes the current village that the regiment is staying in / asks after Marion Scott's influenza, and hopes that the rest of the family is well / wants to write a verse about the village that the regiment is now staying in / discusses possible titles for a collected volume / includes 'Home-sickness' / 'Servitude' / instructs that these two sonnets, as well as 'For England', 'Pain', and one other will form the sequence 'Sonnets 1914' / explains what they are meant to signify / discusses a travel volume about South America entitled 'By Land and Sea' / wonders about Germany's potential collapse / hopes that he has not offended Scott with a recent 'outburst' over 'The Fire Kindled'. |

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Envelope containing letter.
Describes the current village that the regiment is staying in / asks after Marion Scott's influenza, and hopes that the rest of the family is well / wants to write a verse about the village that the regiment is now staying in / discusses possible titles for a collected volume / includes 'Home-sickness' / 'Servitude' / instructs that these two sonnets, as well as 'For England', 'Pain', and one other will form the sequence 'Sonnets 1914' / explains what they are meant to signify / discusses a travel volume about South America entitled 'By Land and Sea' / wonders about Germany's potential collapse / hopes that he has not offended Scott with a recent 'outburst' over 'The Fire Kindled'.

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Identifier

7558.cpd | 6762.jpg | IG-41-64.jpg 6763.jpg | IG-41-64f1.jpg 6764.jpg | IG-41-64f2.jpg 6765.jpg | IG-41-64f3.jpg 6766.jpg | IG-41-64f4.jpg 6767.jpg | IG-41-64f5.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

14th February 1917

Date Created

14/02/1917 | 07/02/1917

Spatial

France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

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 41.64 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.64.1 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.64.2 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.64.3 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.64.4 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.64.5

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

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

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