Record ID:
292240
Accession number:
MA 2234.17
Credit:
Gift of Gordon N. Ray, 1962.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 cm + envelope
Notes:
Written on stationery with "Hill House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire." printed at the top.
With postmark and stamp.
Part of a large collection of autograph and typed letters from Walter de la Mare to Tom Turner. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2234.1-84).
Summary:
Thanking him for the books he has given him; saying he enjoyed Turner's visit "more than [he] can say"; discussing the fairy photographs [taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in 1917] and saying he was "not convinced concerning the fairies"; explaining how the photographs could be faked; mentioning books on dreams by [Frederick] Greenwood and Havelock Ellis; noting that he "should enjoy a little talk with D.L. Murray."
Provenance:
Gordon N. Ray.
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