thefoxhuntingman:Edmund Blunden’s letter to Siegfried Sassoon (source here)“S.A.OI am Well/ Very Wel
thefoxhuntingman:Edmund Blunden’s letter to Siegfried Sassoon (source here)“S.A.OI am Well/ Very Well/ Not too Well/ Pretty WellI received your Parcel/ Telegram/ Registered Letter/ Pictorial Card/ Printed Matter/ Money OrderI am sending you a Valentine/ H. Wolfe’s Poetical Works/ D.C.M. & Bar/ Silk Card/ Signed Portrait of H. WilliamsonI am being sent to a Base Hospital/ Lord’s on May 1st/ Red Dragon Crater/ Inland Water Transport/ Delousing StationIt is 1929/ 929/ 11929/ 11929.2Dear SiegfriedI am with you on Wednesday evening, at the Reform Club, shall venture in at 7.30; you ought to have had a L. from me before this but I have fallen into a Melancholy having to scramble through a little slovenly book for the Hogarth Press – nothing like your work which is glorious to think about, though I can know the prodigious strain that you endure in writing it “all the long hours.” I have been renewing my eagerness to see W. Owen come in for some of the applause, + now having cleared off one Wolf I shall be about it. 50,000! you old Polyglot. God speed the Plough, it will be a beauty. They have spelt the name of your prize wrong, it sh’ be James TATE Black. I was sure of Whistler’s drawing on the instant he showed it – so pleased that you have it. Am sadly enfeebled, but to Chichester tomorrow. E.B. March 30th 1929.” -- source link
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