Typed letter signed with initials : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner / 1941 June 3.

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Typed letter signed with initials : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner / 1941 June 3.

Apologizing for his last letter in which he mistakenly added an autograph note addressed to "my love"; blaming the mistake on the "weakness of human nature and the imbecility of this superannuated representative of it"; discussing the volumes of [George] Darley and [Thomas Lovell] Beddoes that Turner loaned to him; mentioning a letter Turned received from Algernon Blackwood; congratulating him on the dedication of "The Fortunate Lady" [by Frank Swinnerton].

1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 cm. + envelope.

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