1991.1016.177.2

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (author)

Letter dated 29th June 1915 from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Emery Walker thanking Walker for sending him a copy of the Doves Press Bible as a legacy following the death of Philip Webb. Found inserted in the book, Poetical Works of W.S. Blunt Vol.1 when acquired by the museum, shelf L36 (B) . Part of the Emery Walker Library.

1915-06-29 - 1915-06-29

Arts & Crafts

Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Emery Walker dated 29th June 1915. Found inserted in the book, Poetical Works of W.S. Blunt Vol. 1. Newbuildings Place Southwater Sussex June 29. 1915 Dear Walker , It is very good of you to send me your Dove’s Press Bible which is really splendid and I happened to open it at its most splendid passage in Job, [inserted which begins] “Man born of a woman”. The only fault I find is that you did not write my name in it and your own and Webb’s as a legacy from him – But you must do that next time you are here. We had Cockerell[i] here last week who is much depressed about the war – I still think however that there is a possibility of its ending before the Autumn. I am of one mind with the Pope who pronounces “anathema” on both [bellicerents/belligerents] Yrs very truly Wilfrid Scawen Blunt[ii] [Footnotes: [i] Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867 – 1962), collector and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge from 1908 to 1937. [ii] Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840 – 1920), poet and horse breeder CAW]