Letters from John Masefield to Norah and Henry Parker, 1898-1967, n.d.

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(fols. 1-38) have been conjecturally dated in three different hands, including Constance Babington Smith’s? Fol. 1 annotated ‘probably 1920’; fols. 2-38 ‘1932-63’
(fols. 9-10, 43, 68 and 70) are from Constance Masefield
(fols. 14-15) are enclosed with a note (fol. 13) ‘Given to CBS [Constance Babington Smith?] by Mrs Parker 11/6/74 – to add to the main series of letters from JM’
(fols. 19-22) a printed pamphlet, Words spoken at the unveiling of the Memorials to the poets John Keats and Percy Shelley, inscribed by Masefield, to ‘Henry & Nono’ [conjectural dating, ‘Christmas, 1954’].

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