Typed letter signed : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner / 1946 Jan. 8.

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Typed letter signed : Old Park, Penn [near High Wycombe], to Tom Turner / 1946 Jan. 8.

Discussing the act of reading with "intense awareness and out-of-the-worldness"; mentioning [C.M.] Bowra's Heritage of Symbolism; saying that he has been asked to write an introduction to a book about Chardin.

1 item (2 p.) ; 13.9 x 18.4 cm. + envelope.

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