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Masefield, John, 1878-1967

 Person

Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:

Masefield, J. to Bull, D. - correspondence, 1918-08-31

Folder 4

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Identifier: Folder 4
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BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. 31 Aug. [1918]. Masefield informs Bull that he is sending young poet Robert Nichols to America with letter of introduction in hand. Nichols, he reports, is nice but badly shell-shocked and in need of being ‘a little looked after’. Closing, Masefield excerpts from an Erasmus letter to help Bull resolve her creative ‘troubles’.

Dates: 1918-08-31

Masefield, J. to Bull, D. - correspondence, Undated [1930, December inferred]

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Scope and Contents HILL CREST, BOAR’s HILL, OXFORD. Undated. [1930, December inferred. Printed pamphlet enclosure with Masefield handwriting inside cover: No.: "9" For: "Dorothy" From: "John Masefield. Christmas, 1930".] Masefield sends Bull Christmas greetings with thoughts, remembrances, and blessings for the New Year. Pamphlet is a printing of his October 1930 Address to the Councillors of Hereford. King George V appointed John Masefield Poet Laureate in 1930, possibly on the 1924 recommendation...
Dates: Undated [1930, December inferred]

Masefield, J. to Bull, D. - correspondence, Undated [1930? Questionable.]

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Scope and Contents BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. Undated [1930? Questionable.] This Masefield notecard to refers to an "enclosed photograph" of Ledbury Church. [The image is found in Series 3 - Photographs (Item #6) of the Bull Collection.] The postcard image depicts an 11thC 'Old Parish Church' Masefield calls a “small cathedral". He notes that it was the setting for his long poem, "The Everlasting Mercy", and that his childhood home lay just beyond the churchyard. [For correspondence referencing other images...
Dates: Undated [1930? Questionable.]

Masefield, J. to Bull, D. - correspondence, 1916-10-06

Folder 1

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Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents

[64 words] Oct 6 [1916] at Aix les Bains. (waiting for a train.) Masefield notes receipt of Bull’s letter written 25 days earlier; discusses artificial limb(s) for wounded French veteran(s); instructs Bull to avoid sending another gift; explains that he won’t be able to ‘administrate it’; expresses hope that Bull continues writing verse; remarks on battlefield death of American poet Alan Seeger.

Dates: 1916-10-06

Masefield, J. to Bull, D. - correspondence, 1916-11-17

Folder 1

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Identifier: Folder 1
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Lollingdon, Cholsey, Berks Nov 17. 1916. Masefield is greatly pleased by Bull’s recent letter and poem; is glad that she enjoyed his copy of “Philosophies”; offers to critique a Bull typescript; responds at length to Bull’s questions about papers he reads and ‘non-party’ newspapers in England.

Dates: 1916-11-17

Masefield, J. to Bull, D. - correspondence, 1916-11-19

Folder 1

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Identifier: Folder 1
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Lollingdon, Cholsey, Berks Nov 19, 1916. Masefield compares the merits of donating to veterans in need of artificial arms (vs legs); reports no word from surgeons charged with selecting a ‘deserving case’ to receive Bull’s gift; characterizes the battle of Gallipoli as a 'game of firecrackers' compared with the Somme; admires Poet Laureate Robert Bridge’s anthology “The Spirit of Man”.

Dates: 1916-11-19

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Masefield, Constance (Teacher,Homemaker. 1867-1960) 1
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