posted on 2024-04-18, 14:57authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr">Trying to read letters under fire / expresses displeasure at technical criticism of verses by Robert Bridges / what Ivor Gurney intends his verse to accomplish / copying out a poem by the English poet 'John Drinkwater' / concern over a lost letter / wishes that he spoke German, in order to read German newspapers / the state of the mail / desire to visit 'Blighty'. | </p><p>File description(s):</p><p>Envelope containing letter.<br>Trying to read letters under fire / expresses displeasure at technical criticism of verses by Robert Bridges / what Ivor Gurney intends his verse to accomplish / copying out a poem by the English poet 'John Drinkwater' / concern over a lost letter / wishes that he spoke German, in order to read German newspapers / the state of the mail / desire to visit 'Blighty'.</p>