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Add MS 89270/3
- Record Id:
- 040-003381864
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003381855
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100049402999.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89270/3
- Title:
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Correspondence between John Masefield and Marta Hodgkiss
- Scope & Content:
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16 letters dated 1963-1967:
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 3 June 1963]. Thanks for letter and gift of paper weight; possible invitation to lunch later in the summer.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 20 October 1963. Her enthusiasm for him; the invitation to lunch; new editions of his books and newspaper articles about him.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 29 May 1964. Birthday greetings; Prague admirers anxious at not receiving any message from him; their new home in Gosport; photographs of the Spanish training ship Don Juan Sebastian de Elcano she has taken for him.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 4 June 1964]. Thanks for letter and photographs of the Don Juan Sebastian de Elcano.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 22 June 1964. The schooner Don Juan Sebastian de Elcano; possible strangeness of a woman being interested in ships; women in his writing; Has exchanged letters with Kamil Bednář in Prague, poet and translator of Shakespeare, who has been working on translating Masefield’s poems; Prague admirers and difficulties of understanding and achieving publication. With two newspaper cuttings about the Don Juan Sebastian de Elcano from Portsmouth Evening news.
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 24 June 1964]. Thanks for the letter and photograph of the barquentine (Don Juan Sebastian de Elcano); his training in sailing ships as a young merchant navy officer; Shakespeare recital competition.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [December 196[4?]; postage stamp date frank illegible on envelope] Thanks for gift, photographs of harbour and views of the Victory’s rigging.
- Letter to Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 13 May 1965]. Thanks for letter and gift of relics and cards of the Victory; Ossian; W.B. Yeats’ poem, 'The wanderings of Usheen'; visit to one of Ossian’s graves in Ireland many years before.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 19 May 1965. Ossian; King Cormac; Yeats; broadcast of Masefield’s Bird of dawning; sailing ships. With carbon copy notes on the reign of Cormac taken from History of Ireland by M. F. Cusack.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 21 December 1965]. Thanks for letter, gifts and Portsmouth photographs.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated … 1966; probably June 1966]. Thanks for letter and gifts; wishes autobiography were done.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 15 August 1966. Sending lavender from the garden; thanks for letter; Masefield’s autobiography, Grace before ploughing (1966); encloses foreign stamps.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 6 June (?) 1966]. Thanks for birthday card, messages and book.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, [envelope dated 18 December 1966]. Greetings and thanks for present.
- Letter to Dr and Mrs Hodgkiss from John Masefield, April 3 [1967] [envelope dated 4 April 1967]. Thanks and Easter greetings.
- Letter to John Masefield from Marta Hodgkiss, 12 August 1962.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003381855
040-003381864 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89270 : Correspondence between John Masefield and Marta Hodgkiss
Add MS 89270/3 : Correspondence between John Masefield and Marta Hodgkiss - Hierarchy:
- 032-003381855[0003]/040-003381864
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89270
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1963
- End Date:
- 1967
- Date Range:
- 1963-1967
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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