Objektnummer
1991.1016.326.3
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Beskrivning
Letter from the poet Robert Bridges to Emery Walker dated 13th November (no year but possibly 1926, see 1991. 1016. 326. 2). It refers to a cartouche and a design by Bridges's daughter. 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.
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Oxford
Produktionsperiod
20th century, Arts & Crafts
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Letter from Robert Bridges to Emery Walker dated 13th November (year not stated but possibly 1926, see 1991.1016.326.a). Found in ‘Poems Written In the Year 1913’ by Bridges
Chilswell Oxford
Nov 13.
Dear Mr Walker
I am quite satisfied with this – very much pleased.
We all prefer the simpler cartouche, which you send loose, the one that you say is done after my daughter’s sketch.
It is very good of you to have met my wishes so sympathetically. I hope that you will yourself be satisfied. That ‘Gracious [Pumipion][i]’ really is nuisance but it could not be helped. At least I did not think I could ‘graciously’ object to it.
Yours sincerely
Robert Bridges[i].
When you were here you spoke of Lunar Rainbows. Strangely enough we saw one last night driving up from Oxford, tho’ the moon is only a few days old.
It was nearly complete, narrow & no colour discernible. I have seldom seen one. [unreadable this sort of segment] [Transcriber note: There is a simple segment-shaped drawing of this phenomenon at the foot of the letter]
[Footnote:
[i]Possibly a misspelling of ‘pumpion’, an archaic word for ‘pumpkin’
[ii]Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 – 1930), poet and Poet Laureate from 1913. See also 1991. 1016. 326. a. 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.a refer to a collaboration subsequent to the Parry memorial. Bridges had a volume of poetry entitled ‘New Verse’ published in 1926. CAW]