Item 41 - Letter from John Drinkwater to R. C. Trevelyan

260 Mary Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham. - Is 'very distressed': sent Lascelles [Abercrombie] a manuscript of a poem ten days ago, a revision of the 'only one' of his earlier poems he cares about. Asked Lascelles to return it quickly as, if he approved of it, wanted to send it to Trevelyan [for inclusion in "Annual of New Poetry"]; has heard nothing. Wrote again yesterday morning and is doing so again; thinks the poem is 'all right ' and if Abercrombie agrees will send it directly to Constable [the publishers] this week with another short poem; thinks these will be 'apter than "The God [of Quiet]" under the circumstances [see 20/28]; is very sorry but it is not quite his fault. Adds a postscript that he does not mean it is 'any one else's' fault, and another saying he is writing directly to Constables to stop them printing "The God".