Номер объекта
1991.1016.342.1
Создатель
Описание
Letter to Emery Walker dated 9th September from 'R. B.' (the poet Robert Bridges) (1991.1016.342.1.a) plus its envelope (1991.1016.342.1.b) which shows the year of sending to have been 1920. Found inserted in the book, The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald by Morris, W. when acquired by the museum, shelf V53 . Part of the Emery Walker Library.
Место изготовления
Oxford
Дата
1920-09-09 - 1920-09-09
Период создания
20th century, Arts & Crafts
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Размерность
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- w: 113mm
- l: 82mm
- w: 113mm
Letter to Emery Walker dated 9th September (no year but the accompanying envelope shows the year to be 1920). Identified as being from Robert Bridges from content, handwriting and sender’s address. See also 1991.1016 326.a and b. Found in ‘The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald’ by William Morris
Chilswell Oxford
Sept 9.
My dear Mr Emery Walker
Bruce Richmond[i] has been here and has told me all that he knows about the Parry[ii] meml in Glos’ter Cathedral.
I can do nothing until I have an interview with you. The fact is that, so far as I understand the nature of the project, I do not much like it, and if I saw you I we could talk it over and either agree or disagree.
Meanwhile I hope that you will not make any definite decision or take any irremediable steps [abt] the ‘architectural’ form. What Richmond told me was that the tablet was to be in a hard stone, and the frame of it in another. The only good solution that I have thought of implies that the border of the inscription shd be allowed to invade the tablet with its decoration – and that implies their being materially of a-piece.
I think Richmond approved of the utility of my suggestion.
If the monument is to be merely a sort of record of offices etc I shall have nothing to do with it. I shd wish to work the record heraldically with the border and make the inscription something readable in the more poetic vein.
[Yours tly RB][iii]
We shd have to consult the committee. [3 unreadable words] lead & your having something better to do.
Could you suggest how we might meet. I am pretty free from engagements tho’ very busy. It wd be delightful to me if you cd come for a night.
[Footnotes:
[i]Sir Bruce Lyttleton Richmond (1871 -1964), journalist, editor and editor of the Times Literary Supplement between 1902 and 1937.
[ii]Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848 – 1918), composer, teacher and music historian. The memorial to him in Gloucester Cathedral was unveiled in 1922 following a delay for unknown reasons. It was a collaboration between Bridges and Emery Walker.
[iii] Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 – 1930), poet and at this time Poet Laureate. See also 1991. 1016. 326. a and b. CAW]