Item 22 - Letter from Laurence Housman to Katharine Symons

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Add. MS a/683/1/22

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Letter from Laurence Housman to Katharine Symons

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  • 14 May 1936 (Creation)

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Trinity College, Cambridge.—Sends an annotated volume of A. E. Housman's poems and some manuscript corrections, and asks if she wants his skull-cap.

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Trinity College | Cambridge
May 14th | 1936

Dearest K.

I send you this to start with; others will follow hereafter, but the nice ones are all packed.

This is an American edition, but it has a special interest as it contains corrections of punctuation in his own hand, and also a M.S. list of corrections goes with it. So it is a unique set, which will be of interest to posterity.

Would you like to have his skull cap for a keepsake? You are far more a relic-liker than I am. I have letters from America & elsewhere clamouring for relics: but of course for anything so personal family comes first

Just off to London

Love from L.

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      Sent with Add. MS a. 683/1/23.

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      This description was created by A. C. Green in 2023.

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