Scope and Contents Boar’s Hill, Oxford. Augt 6. 1919. Masefield -- returned from Ireland -- describes an ‘unreal’, pre-war atmosphere there and pronounces himself happy to be back in ‘old bankrupt revolutionary England’; reports being ‘sad not to see Mr Rickards’; asks Bull about “the art of the Circus” in America; distinguishes between Barnum’s ‘menagerie’ and that ‘magic circle under a tent’ he loves best; details children, “the real artists”, a beautiful “Cora”, a clown in spots ‘wittier than most...

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Boar’s Hill, Oxford. 27 May. Masefield may meet Mr. Richards before going to Ireland for ‘some months’ but, more likely, will meet him “in college next term”. He reports hearing from Bull’s brother; invites him to visit Oxford while on ‘English leave’; sends greetings to Bull’s aunts; offers special regards to Bull.

Scope and Contents Boar’s Hill, Oxford. Oct 13. Masefield replies to Bull’s ‘very kind’ response regarding circuses in America; notes that circuses in England have returned to wake ‘divine longings’ now that the horses can be fed; draws cartoon of woman on horse with clown high-stepping behind; sends photos of places in his poems: Mary’s house in Daffodil Fields and the ‘scene of the meet’ in The Fox. Masefield asks for another photo of Bull; quips about the clipping sent him and wonders what Bull is “doing...

Scope and Contents Masefield sends another photo, a postcard, and the pull of a woodcut ‘just done’. The photo depicts the Teasels where characters in “The Mercy” and the “Widow”, respectively, drowned and brooded over lost love. Of the postcard, The Fox at Boar’s Hill, Masefield waxes on about English pubs serving patrons glimpses of the world along with their ‘liquid solace’. Finally, Masefield recalls, with cartoon, the downpour soaking his last walk with Bull in Litchfield and sends the usual good...

Scope and Contents ‘Very glad’ of her friendship, Masefield thanks Bull for her letter and ‘jolly’ photographs; encloses photos of Ledbury’s ‘sleeping’ Market House and of the Widow’s house ‘Down Bye Street’; discourses, with cartoon, on London’s 19th century street vendors, ‘the costers’, identifying them as generous, jolly people who put their wealth into clothes, donkeys and enjoyments, instead of banks; offers autograph for Bull’s copy of Gallipoli; emphasizes that post-war England is changed down to the...

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Nov 22. 1919. Masefield apologizes for being a ‘nuisance’ and asks Bull to forward his letter to “Colonel” Jasper Brinton, editor of The Forge.

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Boar’s Hill, Oxford. Nov 30. 1919. Masefield thanks Bull for her note about Mr. Howell’s essay; promises to read it; supposes that Bull was in New York to see Prince Edward VIII; wishes she would marry the prince; declares that no other Princess would be ‘more welcome' in England.

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Boar’s Hill, Oxford. [Undated, Dec. 1919] Masefield sends a ballad, The Tale of Anthony Bell by A.J. Munnings, he hopes Bull will like; notes that Munnings is one of England’s best painters and envies his ability to work so well ‘in an art not his own’.

Scope and Contents Masefield reports traveling throughout England and Scotland; notes that trains are few and are jammed with travelers; observes talk of revolution in Glasgow as lacking any clear revolutionary idea; remarks on unrest elsewhere as predictable ‘after four such years’; wonders, with the Army’s imminent return to Britain, what 4 million young men will think ‘of the world at home as they find it and interact with it’; thanks Bull for being kind to “R.N.”, the English poet, Robert Nichols, about...