Lot Essay
LITERATURE:
Barry Webb Edmund Blunden (New Haven and London, 1990)
Blunden's biographer records that 'under the editorship of H.W. Massingham, assisted by H.M. Tomlinson, the Nation had won Edmund's favour at the end of the war, partly becuase its forthright comments had made it a more or less banned publication on the Western front' (p. 107). Massingham and Tomlinson, who had connections with the ship-owning Tunciman family, persuaded Blunden 'to take a voyage to South America on the cargo boat SS Trefusis "to do something to take away the taste of Stuff Trench."' In December 1921 Blunden was 'preparing to join the ship which would take him across the Atlantic and up the River Plate to Buenos Aires and back over three months ... before leaving he had been introduced by Tomlinson to the American publisher, G.P. Putnam, who asked for the option of an account of the journey ... published in December 1922 as The Bonaventure' (pp. 131-32).
Barry Webb Edmund Blunden (New Haven and London, 1990)
Blunden's biographer records that 'under the editorship of H.W. Massingham, assisted by H.M. Tomlinson, the Nation had won Edmund's favour at the end of the war, partly becuase its forthright comments had made it a more or less banned publication on the Western front' (p. 107). Massingham and Tomlinson, who had connections with the ship-owning Tunciman family, persuaded Blunden 'to take a voyage to South America on the cargo boat SS Trefusis "to do something to take away the taste of Stuff Trench."' In December 1921 Blunden was 'preparing to join the ship which would take him across the Atlantic and up the River Plate to Buenos Aires and back over three months ... before leaving he had been introduced by Tomlinson to the American publisher, G.P. Putnam, who asked for the option of an account of the journey ... published in December 1922 as The Bonaventure' (pp. 131-32).