66309: Letter: To Marion Scott.

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posted on 2024-04-18, 14:57 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Mentions drafts of 'To Certain Comrades' and 'Strange Service' / intending to write 15 to 20 more / requests for a package / has decided not to send letter of 10th October 1916 / pleased that Marion Scott's sister is well / mentions John Masefield's 'Gallipoli' and Ivor Gurney's setting of Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / promises an account of 'a day in the life of a private' / desires to see friends again / describes the quality of the men / mentions a book 'Mr Pepys in the Great War'. |

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Envelope containing letter.
Mentions drafts of 'To Certain Comrades' and 'Strange Service' / intending to write 15 to 20 more / requests for a package / has decided not to send letter of 10th October 1916 / pleased that Marion Scott's sister is well / mentions John Masefield's 'Gallipoli' and Ivor Gurney's setting of Masefield's 'For the Fallen' / promises an account of 'a day in the life of a private' / desires to see friends again / describes the quality of the men / mentions a book 'Mr Pepys in the Great War'.

History

Identifier

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

19th October 1916

Date Created

19/10/1916

Spatial

Somme, France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Letter | Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Number of Pages

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

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

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.43 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.43.1r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.43.1v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.43.2r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.43.2v

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

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

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Letters

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