Letter from Edward Thomas to the poet Gordon Bottomley. Sent from Coventry. Archival ref: 424/1/1/1/10/189
June 27th
1914
Coventry

My dear Gordon. We are just leaving
Frost's & moving round towards
home again. Just the same
weather has pursued me here as
that with you. I did enjoy
those few long days. I carried
your message to de la Mare &
some of your criticism to Frost,
which did not prevent him
from saying how much he
admired Mrs. Lear. He has
been reading or seeing it some when
he puts it above Abercrombie's
'End of the World' for example.
By the way, if this does not
make you too vain, don't
forget to send me those poems
typed to Steep. I will try &
remember to get an opinion
about 'copyright by T Mosher'
when I get home.
I won't send you my T. P.'s Weekly
article, but the badness of it proves
how much I enjoyed my time with
you because when I am really
enjoying friends I never can write.
However, I do not make you responsible.
On Tuesday we went to the
Russian ballet & heard Strauss's
Joseph. the music
was not good. Anyhow I did not like
it, & the ballet itself was
a failure. The story outline was
not simple & signifiant enough
for his dancers to do much
with it. 'Papillons', founded
on Schumann, was very
charming a Pienot story
of 1830. Thomas I expect
you now - am Eastern
carpet set to music. We
hope to go again next
Tuesday.
We saw Rupert Brooke at
Gibson's on Wednesday, browner
& older & better looking, after his
tour. Yesterday we saw the 4
Abercrombies! Ezra Pound
has tried to [illegible] himself
by challenging Abercrombie to a
duel. He tries to make
believe he is in Provence, I
suppose. Won't you make
the epigram founded on the
fact that his father was
Homer Pound, his wife a
Miss Shakespeare?
With our love to you &
Emily
Yours ever
Edward Thomas