66311: Letter: To Marion Scott.
Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Discusses aeroplanes and poetry / apologises for having sent a parcel to Marion Scott to be forwarded on / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)' / 'Solace of Men' / 'To F.W.H.' (friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey) / another poem entitled 'Girl's Song' / reports that that is all for now / notes that it is raining 'horribly' outside. |
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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. Discusses aeroplanes and poetry / apologises for having sent a parcel to Marion Scott to be forwarded on / includes 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)', originally entitled 'Girl's Song' / 'Solace of Men' / 'To F.W. H.' (friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey) / another draft of 'Girl's Song' / reports that that is all for now / notes that it is raining 'horribly' outside.
Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Discusses aeroplanes and poetry / apologises for having sent a parcel to Marion Scott to be forwarded on / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)') / 'Solace of Men' / 'To F.W. H.' (friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey) / another draft of 'Girl's Song' / reports that that is all for now / notes that it is raining 'horribly' outside.
Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Discusses aeroplanes and poetry / apologises for having sent a parcel to Marion Scott to be forwarded on / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)' ) / 'Solace of Men' / 'To F.W.H.' (friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey) / another poem entitled 'Girl's Song' / reports that that is all for now / notes that it is raining 'horribly' outside.
Written while Ivor Gurney was a patient at the Middlesex War Hospital, where he was sent following numerous suicide threats. Discusses aeroplanes and poetry / apologises for having sent a parcel to Marion Scott to be forwarded on / includes 'Girl's Song' (later published as 'The Tryst (To W. M. C.)' / 'Solace of Men' / 'To F.W. H.' (friend and fellow poet F.W. Harvey) / another poem entitled 'Girl's Song' / reports that that is all for now / notes that it is raining 'horribly' outside.