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- 15 Dec 1941 (Creation)
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1 letter: typescript with corrections in ink and autograph signature.
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East Hendred, Wantage, Berkshire. - Thanks Bob for his 'delightful Christmas gift' [his poem "A Dream"]. Was 'busy on hack-work' when it arrived, so only read it yesterday with 'much interest and admiration'. Asks if the 'two lines about Verulam' mean that Bob is an 'advocate of the Baconian heresy' [about the authorship of Shakespeare's works]: if so, he is the first poet Wilfrid has met 'who could believe for a moment that the author of the essays could have written the plays'; has also 'never met an actor who could conceive that they were the work of an author without intimate stage-experience'. This is however a 'minor issue', which 'detracts little from the beauty and wisdom of the poem'. He and his wife send best wishes to the Trevelyans for Christmas and the new year.
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- Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878-1962) poet (Subject)
- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626), 1st Viscount St Alban, Lord Chancellor, politician and philosopher (Subject)
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), playwright and poet (Subject)
- Gibson, Geraldine Audrey (1880-1950) wife of Wilfrid Gibson, known as Gerald (Subject)