Item 29: Letter from John Masefield to Mr. O’Donophue, 1911 August 5.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 29
Dates
- Created: 1911 August 5.
Creator
- Masefield, John, 1878-1967 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Letter
Condition Note:
Good. Strong vinegar smell. Slight tear in bottom middle seam when open.
Measurements:
7 in. x 4 ⅜ in. (closed); 8 ¾ in. x 7 in. (open)
Description:
This letter is authored on August 5, 1911, by English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967, John Masefield to a “Mr. O’Donoghue”.
Masefield is thanking Mr. O'Donoghue for a letter. It then goes into remembering a mutual friend, Synge, [Edmund John Millington], who passed away in 1909.
Location:
Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland
Transcription:
Cushendun
Co[unty] Antrim
Aug 5. 1911
Dear Mr. O’Donoghue
I am exceedingly obliged to you for your kind letter & for the trouble you have taken on my behalf. Please accept my best thanks.
The scholarship won was for Harmony +(?) Counterpoint, in 1891: perhaps I shall be able to get the date before the article goes to prin[t]. It is very likely that they aren’t in any great hurry.
I hope that some day I may have the pleasure of meeting you, & talking over our memories of Synge. I did not get to know him till 1903 and the years just before that were almost the most interesting in his life. You have given me many little glimpses of him during those years, & to that I am very thankful. Please come to see me if you are ever in town. that will be a great pleasure to me.
With many thanks.
Believe me
You’re my sincerely
John Masefield
Creator
- Masefield, John, 1878-1967 (Person)
Repository Details
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu