ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED BLUNDEN (Edmund, 1896-1974, Poet & Critic)

Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Thomas Brumbough in America, thanking him for his letter and hoping "that literary interests will lighten the burden of army life as long as that is your portion. For my part I have (including military duties) rather a lot to do, and you will pardon a short letter from a weary pen, perhaps the few lines appended will meet your wish to have something in the way of an autograph ...", together with a complete short poem signed titled 'The Lost Name', starting "No ship perhaps again will ever bear / That fatal name / Which at the christening challenged everywhere / Seafaring fame / But was to see calamity so vast / Multiplied so / That times may quite forget that wreck of the past / No one would know / And under her grey name a proud new ship / May yet advance / Thronged with young faces brilliant for the trip / God guard the dance!", 1 side 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 12 Woodstock Close, Oxford, 1st December



Item Date:  1943

Stock No:  39466      £375

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