N° d'objet
1991.1016.326.2
Créateur
Description
Handwritten letter from the poet Robert Bridges to Emery Walker dated 2nd November 1926. Found inserted in the book, Poems written in the year 1913 by Bridges, Robert, when acquired by the museum, shelf V5 . Part of the Emery Walker Library.
Lieu de création
Oxford
Date
1926-11-02 - 1926-11-02 1926 - 1926
Période de création
20th century, Arts & Crafts
Nom d'objet
Matériel
Technique
Dimensions
Letter from Robert Bridges to Emery Walker dated 2nd November 1926. Found in ‘Poems Written In the Year 1913’ by Bridges
Chilswell Oxford
Nov. 2 1926
My dear Walker
a thousand thanks. Mr Brockhurst’s proposal is I think satisfactory. I have written to commend it to Mrs W. and will write to you when I hear her reaction.
yours sincerely
Robert Bridges[i]
[Footnote:
[i]Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 – 1930), poet and Poet Laureate from 1913. See also 1991. 1016. 326. b. He and Emery Walker had previously collaborated on the design of a monument to Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry in Gloucester Cathedral in the early 1920s, see 1991.1016.342.b.
Transcriber’s Comment: This letter and 1991.1016.326.b refer to a collaboration subsequent to the Parry memorial. Bridges had a volume of poetry entitled ‘New Verse’ published in 1926. CAW]