Record ID:
373235
Accession number:
MA 5142.97
Credit:
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes:
On letterhead of the Department of English, University of Southampton.
Includes autograph corrections.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Summary:
Telling him he is not sending a photograph of himself in uniform "because the only one [he has] much exaggerates [his] beauty"; noting that he doesn't think he should "be reckoned a war-poet," and observing that he always felt "how sheltered and unqualified [he] was in comparison with the Alun Lewises, Keith Douglases, and others"; sending Ross a short biographcal note about himself.
Provenance:
Kenneth A. Lohf.
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