Item 78 - Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to R. C. Trevelyan

1 item: letter with envelope

11, St Leonard's Terrace, Chelsea, S.W.3. - Calls Trevelyan's collection [the 1945 "From the Shiffolds"? ] the 'most mellow and golden-hearted' he has yet sent to his friends: he is lucky to be writing ever better verse with age. Has been 'haunted' by "Two Hundred Years Hence', as he was by Binyon's "[The Burning of The] Leaves", which he got the "Atlantic Monthly" to publish, establishing Binyon's reputation in the US; has written to the "Atlantic" about Trevelyan's poem and hopes they will telegraph to ask for permission to print. Hopes 'to immortalise his old age' too by the lines "There is much to be said / For staying in bed", and hopes Trevelyan will 'visit his death bed' when next in London. The back of the envelope has a note by Pearsall Smith recommending two small changes to "Two Hundred Years".