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JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY (1889-1957)
A collection of 12 a.l.s. and a.n.s. to H.M. Tomlinson, and 3 manuscript reviews for the Nation, 1920-25 or [n.d.], including an a.l.s. dated 6 Pond St., Hampstead, N.W.3., May 3rd [no year]: 'Wd. it be possible for you to do us something on Wells's "Men Like Gods"? I don't like asking ... Something to say how good the d-d thing really is -- & how good this method of presenting real people -- really real ones, -- is.'; a postcard from San Remo, dated 19.9.20: 'When we arrived here we found they hadn't had any rain for 7 months. So the ants began to make hay. The rain has come since, thank goodness, but the beggars haven't stopped yet'; and a 2pp. a.l.s., dated Selsfield House, near E. Grinstead, April 5 1922, reviewing Tomlinson's own book The Estuary: 'You know I'm not one of those who believe the public will never stand good stuff. But there's a certain kind of good stuff they can't stand; it is strictly beyond their comprehension, just as some kinds of personality are beyond their comprehension, & some kinds of poetry ... it bewilders them, or makes them uneasy.' (15)
A collection of 12 a.l.s. and a.n.s. to H.M. Tomlinson, and 3 manuscript reviews for the Nation, 1920-25 or [n.d.], including an a.l.s. dated 6 Pond St., Hampstead, N.W.3., May 3rd [no year]: 'Wd. it be possible for you to do us something on Wells's "Men Like Gods"? I don't like asking ... Something to say how good the d-d thing really is -- & how good this method of presenting real people -- really real ones, -- is.'; a postcard from San Remo, dated 19.9.20: 'When we arrived here we found they hadn't had any rain for 7 months. So the ants began to make hay. The rain has come since, thank goodness, but the beggars haven't stopped yet'; and a 2pp. a.l.s., dated Selsfield House, near E. Grinstead, April 5 1922, reviewing Tomlinson's own book The Estuary: 'You know I'm not one of those who believe the public will never stand good stuff. But there's a certain kind of good stuff they can't stand; it is strictly beyond their comprehension, just as some kinds of personality are beyond their comprehension, & some kinds of poetry ... it bewilders them, or makes them uneasy.' (15)