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HILL CREST, BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. Undated [Dec 1925]. Masefield sends Christmas greeting and asks Bull to ‘come over next year and let us see you again’.

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Undated [1930, November inferred. Questionable.]. Masefield, ‘so very glad to have seen’ Bull again, wishes her a swift and pleasant journey home.

Scope and Contents File 13. One item. On September 3, 1935, a year after Dorothy Bull's death, John Masefield wrote her older brother, Frederick Kingsbury Bull (1884-1968), thanking him for "the little mementos of Dorothy". Masefield had not seen Bull "for a long time" and had not heard news of her death while "in Australia". Despite this, Masefield reports having "often thought and talked" of Dorothy Bull with his family. With his wishes to send flowers for Dorothy's grave, Masefield adds that "We wished...

Series 1 - Correspondence Scope & Contents Series 1 - Correspondence (1916-1935) - Thirteen Files contain 103 notes and letters including letters with enclosures.File numbers 1,2,4,6,8,9 11, and 13 contain 94 letters from John Edward Masefield (1878-1976) to Dorothy Bull and (one letter) to her oldest brother, Frederick Kingsbury Bull, after her death in 1934. Nearly all Masefield letters written to Bull before the end of 1920 were dated, written on stationary, and lengthy. However, the collection contains no letters from...