Item 48 - Letter from Edward Marsh to R. C. Trevelyan

Greenway, Ledbury. - Had dinner with [Harold] Monro last night [corrected to 'week', with initials 'R.C.T.' who urged him to bring out a "Georgian Poetry" at Christmas as 'the market is quite healthy' and it should do well. His own circumstances having changed a great deal [a reference to Winston Churchill, whose Private Secretary he had been, leaving Government?], and he had practically decided what would go in a second anthology last year; is 'greatly inclined to do it'. Fears this would 'interfere badly' with Bob's "Annual [of New Poetry" as he would 'have to have Gordon [Bottomley]'s play ["King Lear's Wife"]'; Gordon wrote last week of his own accord saying that his offer held good, his letter the day after the dinner with Monro. Asks Bob if it would be a 'smashing blow' if he kept the play. Has not finally made up his mind, as he needs to look again at his planned list of contents, which is at home; returns there tomorrow. Has been staying a few days with Wilfrid Gibson, who is 'strongly in favour' of there being another "Georgian Poetry". Tells Bob in a postscript to reply to Raymond B[uilding]s.