Item 8 - Letter from Theodora Roscoe to R. C. Trevelyan, with a poem

Horn Hill Court. - Has read "From the Shiffolds" 'with joy'; particularly likes the last three lines of "The Stream", which she quotes. The poem to Gordon Bottomley also 'thrills' her as it is 'so true, & so full of optimism' and says that 'if one possesses the love for the Muses, they will never betray one'. Mentions a other poems she enjoys. Sends Christmas and New Year good wishes. Adds a postscript saying she has enclosed some of her own lines and hopes he will 'overlook their roughness'.

Note at the top of a second sheet of paper saying she found the following lines written in one of her old note-books, and copies them 'just as [she] wrote them]. Untitled poem, first line: 'I look out on to the world growing dim', dated 1943. Adds a note, in reference to her 'Celtic ancestors', explaining that her mother was from the Isle of Man.