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Add MS 89270/2
- Record Id:
- 040-003381862
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003381855
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100049402643.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89270/2
- Title:
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Correspondence between John Masefield and Marta Hodgkiss
- Scope & Content:
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17 letters dated 1962, with some printed and photographic enclosures, and a set of 14 black and white prints:
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated … 1962]. Thanks for bound copy of ‘The Wanderer’.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 17 January 1962. Thanks for Christmas card and sketches of ships; description of how she spent Christmas; her response to his poem ‘Shopping in Oxford’.
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 19 January 1962]. Thanks for letter; sends photograph postcards of the France and the Ponape, two old sailing ships.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 23 January 1962. Thanks for cards; fate of the Ponape and the France, as well as other sailing ships; news from Prague.
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 25 January 1962]. Enclosing another photographic postcard of the France (sailing ship) and returning two newspaper cuttings about the new French liner, France (Daily Telegraph, 8 Jan 1962).
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 23 February 1962]. Thanks for letter and photograph. Enclosed photograph of four masted schooner, Alcaeus Hooper.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 28 February 1962. Description of the garden and birds; thanks for photograph; request to order six photographs from the Keystone Press photo agency to take to Czechoslovakia.
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated … March 1962]. Thanks for letter with the little bird.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 5 March 1962]. Keystone Press photographs, cannot find any to send with her to the east.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 7 March 1962. Photographs; congratulations on Foyle’s Prize; paperback publishing.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 21 April 1962]. Thanks for letter, Easter eggs, cards and photographs; sends photographic cards of sailing ships Monitor and Ispolen.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 18 April 1962. Her return from Prague with influenza; advent of spring; admirers of Masefield in Prague; sends photographs of parts of Czechoslovakia.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 14 May 1962. Bluebells; what has happened since their first meeting a year before; May time; poetic inspiration.
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 16 May 1962]. Thanks for letter with bluebell and sea views; returns ‘Sea breezes’ (May 1962) – he does not know the poem attributed to him on page 298; sends best wishes for their new home on ‘the island’ and encloses two photo cards of sailing ships - Falls of Dee and Glaucus.
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 9 August 1962]. Possible invitation for September.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 12 August 1962. Possible visit; her own busy-ness; enclosed a picture of sails; race of the tall ships, girl on the crew of the Theodora.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 13 August 1962. Sends some book plates, made by Michael Florian in Czechoslovakia, using his seal.
- Photographs of John Masefield from Keystone Press Agency (14 black and white prints).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003381855
040-003381862 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89270 : Correspondence between John Masefield and Marta Hodgkiss
Add MS 89270/2 : Correspondence between John Masefield and Marta Hodgkiss - Hierarchy:
- 032-003381855[0002]/040-003381862
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89270
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1962
- End Date:
- 1962
- Date Range:
- 1962
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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