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68352: Letter: To J W Haines.

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posted on 2024-04-18, 14:59 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Thanks J.W. Haines for a typed copy of a poem and for his letters / discusses friends looking for work / asks after a night with Freeman and Robert Frost / discusses poems / adds a final stanza to 'Fire in the Dust' / describes alterations to 'Solace of Men' and 'Twigworth Vicarage' / includes stanzas of 'Toussaints' / promises more corrections soon / says that he would like to give up verse for music / discusses Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / thanks Haines for his criticisms. |

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Thanks J.W. Haines for a typed copy of a poem and for his letters / discusses friends looking for work / asks after a night with Freeman and Robert Frost / discusses poems / adds a final stanza to 'Fire in the Dust' / describes alterations to 'Solace of Men' and 'Twigworth Vicarage' / includes stanzas of 'Toussaints' / promises more corrections soon / says that he would like to give up verse for music / discusses Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / thanks Haines for his criticisms. The letter is undated, the date supplied being that given the letter by Kelsey Thornton in 'Collected Letters' (Carcanet, 1991)

Thanks J.W. Haines for a typed copy of a poem and for his letters / discusses friends looking for work / asks after a night with Freeman and Robert Frost / discusses poems / adds a final stanza to 'Fire in the Dust' / describes alterations to 'Solace of Men' and 'Twigworth Vicarage' / includes stanzas of 'Toussaints' / promises more corrections soon / says that he would like to give up verse for music / discusses Robert Bridges 'Spirit of Man' / thanks Haines for his criticisms.

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Identifier

7595.cpd | 7402.jpg | IG-83-2f1r.jpg 7403.jpg | IG-83-2f1v.jpg 7404.jpg | IG-83-2f2r.jpg 7405.jpg | IG-83-2f2v.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

[11 September 1918]

Date Created

11/09/1918

Spatial

Unknown

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Letter | Letter

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4

Number of Pages

4

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

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

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 83.2 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 82.2.1v | Papers of Ivor Gurney 82.2.2r | Papers of Ivor Gurney 82.2.2v

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

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

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