posted on 2024-04-18, 18:06authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr">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. | </p><p>File description(s):</p><p>Envelope containing letter.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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.</p>