| Description | 38 letters from Eric Watkins to HW, 1951-1969 [letters from HW to Eric Watkins are held at Exeter], with references to Anton Chekhov throughout, and also including: - 1 letter 3 Dec 1951 with reference to 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight' - 1 letter 4 July 1952 with ms annotation by HW - 1 letter 9 Nov 1952 with newscutting and ms annotation by HW. References to 'Donkey Boy', 'The Flax of Dream', 'The Gold Falcon', and 'The Dark Lantern'. Reference to Adolf Hitler. - 1 letter 7 Dec 1952 with references to 'Donkey Boy', the First World War, Second World War, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Oswald Mosley - 1 postcard 30 Mar 1954 with reference to 'The Gold Falcon' - 1 letter 7 June 1954 with reference to 'Threnos for TE Lawrence' - 1 postcard of Beachy Head Lighthouse Eastbourne 5 July 1954 with reference to 'The Gold Falcon' - 1 postcard 6 Aug 1954 with reference to 'The Gold Falcon' - 1 postcard of Dieppe 25 Aug 1954 - 1 postcard "Wuthering Heights" 25 Sep 1954 - 1 postcard 2 Nov 1954 with ms annotation by HW - 1 postcard 7 Nov 1954 with reference to 'How Dear is Life' - 1 letter Dec 1955 with reference to 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight' and 'Donkey Boy' - 1 copy of letter 2 Sept 1957 from Eric Watkins to the Editor of The Observer, with two newscuttings - 1 letter 2 Feb 1958 with reference to "A Fox Under my Cloak" - 1 letter 14 Nov 1958 with reference to "A Fox Under my Cloak" - 1 letter 12 April 1959 newscutting with ms annotation by Eric Watkins - 1 letter 17 May 1959 with reference to 'Katherine Mansfield and Other Literary Studies', by JM Murry, 'The Gold Falcon', 'The Sun in the Sands','The Dark Lantern' and 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight', and 'The Wet Flanders Plain' - 1 postcard of Petts Wood (fl Sep 1959) - 1 postcard 20 Jan 1960 with reference to Arnold Bennett - 1 letter 26 Nov 1969 with reference to 'The Gold Falcon'
2 letters from other people to HW 1975: 1 postcard 'Fishing boats in Brixham harbour' 1975, from Catherine, and 1 letter from Ernest Kay, Genral Editor of 'Men of Achievement'.
With Anne Williamson's notes. |