细节
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
One page . a.l.s. partly in verse, signed with initials, 54 Tufton St., S.W.1., May 28, to H.M. Tomlinson, asking good-humouredly: 'What are you grousing about, you old salt -- because there's no 8/6 edition of my poems in limp leather and portrait-frontispiece?', and recalling a visit with the Tomlinson's to Hardy's home at Max Gate, which leads him into verse: '"Bow-wow" barked Wessie [Hardy]; & his canine laugh /Seemed to recall how once he chewed the calf /Not of the bard who starkly sang of War-Lights, /But of th'urbane creator of the Forsytes [John Galsworthy]'; and 6 other a.l.s. and a.n.s. to Tomlinson and Hugh Massingham, mentioning his friendship with Blunden ( 'Dash it, I'll have to get on a 'blue-funnel' some day, & fetch him back to cricket matches & 2nd hand catalogues), a bibliography of Thomas Hardy ('One is no better off for hearing that the first title for 'Tess' was 'Too Late, Beloved'! In fact one would prefer not to'), his gratitude to friends when in hospital ('much cheered by Osbert Sitwell's admirable verses) and a radio broadcast of his poems. (7)
One page . a.l.s. partly in verse, signed with initials, 54 Tufton St., S.W.1., May 28, to H.M. Tomlinson, asking good-humouredly: 'What are you grousing about, you old salt -- because there's no 8/6 edition of my poems in limp leather and portrait-frontispiece?', and recalling a visit with the Tomlinson's to Hardy's home at Max Gate, which leads him into verse: '"Bow-wow" barked Wessie [Hardy]; & his canine laugh /Seemed to recall how once he chewed the calf /Not of the bard who starkly sang of War-Lights, /But of th'urbane creator of the Forsytes [John Galsworthy]'; and 6 other a.l.s. and a.n.s. to Tomlinson and Hugh Massingham, mentioning his friendship with Blunden ( 'Dash it, I'll have to get on a 'blue-funnel' some day, & fetch him back to cricket matches & 2nd hand catalogues), a bibliography of Thomas Hardy ('One is no better off for hearing that the first title for 'Tess' was 'Too Late, Beloved'! In fact one would prefer not to'), his gratitude to friends when in hospital ('much cheered by Osbert Sitwell's admirable verses) and a radio broadcast of his poems. (7)