Scope and Contents Jan 1st. 1920. Welcoming a New Year’s Day letter from Bull, his “jolly + dear friend,” Masefield asks Bull to send her “Revolutionary chapter when ready”; recounts 5 minutes of "glorious" life on Christmas Eve when a troupe of “Mummers” performed at Boar’s Hill moving him “down to the bone.” Cartoon and verse replay elements of the event. in postscript, Masefield thanks Bull for relaying note to J.B. (Jasper Yeates Brinton) and speculates where, in the U.S. in early 1916, he might have met...

Scope and Contents BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. Jan 5. 1920. [photo enclosure unavailable] Masefield encloses "the best picture [he] know[s] of the society here at the end of the war" with his further commentary. Following up on his Nov 19, 1919 letter to Bull, Masefield cites H. Mayhew’s "Life + Labour of the London Poor" (1851) about London's "coster" street vendors. Costers "love fighting, are very patriotic" and, until WWI, lived much as they did seventy years earlier, Masefield reports. But at the Somme...

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BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD Jan 6. 1920. Responding to Bull's question regarding “English newspapers”, Masefield sends her a copy of the Manchester Guardian, noting that he once worked there. Apologetic about his "miserable letters" to Bull, Masefield reassures Dorothy that she is a "dear and valued friend". As Bull is drafting a chapter on LItchfield’s Revolutionary War history, Masefield recommends that she read [Mrs. Nesta] Webster's “The French Revolution".

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BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. Jan 14. 1920. Masefield writes an apology to Bull for "one, whom I sent to you last year" and who "behaved not very nicely to you." Masefield's oblique reference is to an 31 Aug. 1918 he wrote Bull and foreshadows his June 3, 1920 letter to Bull.

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BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. 22 Jan. [1920] Masefield sends Bull the autograph of Sir Ian Hamilton for attachment to her copy of "Gallipoli" and laments "the long time between letters" from "Corner House" before offering some verse and a cartoon. The cartoon is of two huntsmen in traditional dress, one, on a horse, chases the other, on a bicycle, page left. A comically high, steeplechase hurdle divides them.

Scope and Contents BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. 2nd.III.1920 Masefield thanks Bull for her letters, photo on skis, “pictures of the faithful”. He discusses Gallipoli commander Ian Hamilton and comments on “the Lincoln play.” The playwright [John Drinkwater?], Masefield notes, has a “special gift for the chronicle play, + a thorough knowledge of the stage.” Finally, Masefield reminisces about returning home to Hereford -- 20-30 miles from the Ludlow home of Bull’s Shropshire ancestors -- after his time away at...

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June 3. 1920. Masefield acknowledges failing to correspond with Bull. In taking "on another man's work as well as [his] own,” he explains having had more than he “could manage". In answer to Bull's question about R.N. -- the shell-shocked veteran and WWI poet Robert Nichols -- Masefield writes: "He is [at Oxford]..., doing quite good work, + getting steadier...he went straight from school into the war, was..."

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July 4.1920. Masefield observes the increased speed with which "the big ships" carry post-war trans-Atlantic correspondence and thanks Bull for the "Miss Brown" poem, saying that Bull "would have done...better." Masefield reports being "especially busy" and concludes that "Things here [in England], now, are not yet quite normal, but nearly so, outwardly. Inwardly, the changed [SIC?] has been so profound that...[England] hasn’t yet had time to adjust its outside to match.”

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HILL CREST. BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. July 28. 1920. Masefield thanks Bull "for the Chapman’s Homer clipping" but bristles -- ending in verse about a "dotted piker" -- at Bull's notion that he may not be "wise to the meaning of" American cultural references such as the "D.A.R." (Daughters of the American Revolution founded in 1890).

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HILL CREST. BOAR’S HILL, OXFORD. July 31. 1920. Masefield notes that "today [is] two years since I saw you, when I came away from Litchfield in the rain..." and acknowledges receipt of her gift, "the Litchfield book." He sends a "dedicace to paste” into "Enslaved" (being sent to Bull “Through...Macmillan Co").