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66311: Letter: To Marion Scott.

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posted on 2024-04-18, 18:06 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. 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.

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Identifier

7586.cpd | 6550.jpg | IG-41-174.jpg 6551.jpg | IG-41-174f1r.jpg 6552.jpg | IG-41-174f1v.jpg 6553.jpg | IG-41-174f2r.jpg 6554.jpg | IG-41-174f2v.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

June - July 1918

Date Created

01/06/1918

Temporal Date

31/07/1918

Spatial

St Albans, England

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil | Pen Pencil

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 41.174 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.174.1r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.174.1v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.174.2r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 41.174.2v

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

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

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