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66310: Letter: To Marion Scott.

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posted on 2024-04-18, 17:53 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Concerned about an article of Marion Scott's that Gurney was meant to send back but might have been destroyed / is including 2 new 'songs' / possibility of being awarded a pass to come and visit / mentions 'The Stone-Breaker' / a letter from John Haines / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)' / asks Scott to send him lines from 'Fire in the Dusk' / includes 'De Profundis'. |

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Envelope containing letter.
Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Concerned about an article of Marion Scott's that Gurney was meant to send back but might have been destroyed / is including 2 new 'songs' / possibility of being awarded a pass to come and visit / mentions 'The Stone-Breaker' / a letter from John Haines / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)' ) / asks Scott to send him lines from 'Fire in the Dusk' / includes 'De Profundis'.

Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Concerned about an article of Marion Scott's that Gurney was meant to send back but might have been destroyed / is including 2 new 'songs' / possibility of being awarded a pass to come and visit / mentions 'The Stone-Breaker' / a letter from John Haines / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)')/ asks Scott to send him lines from 'Fire in the Dusk' / includes 'De Profundis'.

Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Concerned about an article of Marion Scott's that Gurney was meant to send back but might have been destroyed / is including 2 new 'songs' / possibility of being awarded a pass to come and visit / mentions 'The Stone-Breaker' / a letter from John Haines / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)') / asks Scott to send him lines from 'Fire in the Dusk' / includes 'De Profundis'.

Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Concerned about an article of Marion Scott's that Gurney was meant to send back but might have been destroyed / is including 2 new 'songs' / possibility of being awarded a pass to come and visit / mentions 'The Stone-Breaker' / a letter from John Haines / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)' / asks Scott to send him lines from 'Fire in the Dusk' / includes 'De Profundis'.

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Identifier

7585.cpd | 6562.jpg | IG-41-176.jpg 6563.jpg | IG-41-176f1r.jpg 6564.jpg | IG-41-176f1v.jpg 6565.jpg | IG-41-176f2r.jpg 6566.jpg | IG-41-176f2v.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

10th September 1918

Date Created

10/09/1918

Spatial

St Albans, England

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem within letter | Letter Poem within letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Number of Pages

5

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

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

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.176 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.176.1r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.176.1v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.176.2r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.176.2v

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

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

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