[Rarebooks] FS: Fine 4-Page Handwritten Letter by Stevie Smith

[Charles Agvent]

SMITH, Stevie. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Palmers Green [London], 17 
January 1960. A four-page handwritten SIGNED letter written on both 
sides of two 5-1/4" x 7" sheets of pale blue paper to poet James 
[Ernest] Turner. This letter suggests the growth of warmth between the 
two poets; Smith closes the letter with "Love, Stevie." She thanks 
Turner for his poems [possibly THE INTERIOR DIAGRAM AND OTHER POEMS 
published in 1960], and, in turn tells him she appreciates "the kind 
things you say about my two." He is recovering from a nasty injury to 
his heel, and while off his feet he has been reading Smith's poems aloud 
to himself. "It's nice of you to have been reading these poems aloud, & 
funny too in a way, as I have been doing quite a lot of it (reading 
them) lately, & I wonder how a writer can mark, or punctuate, his poems 
so as to get the accent & emphasis & all of it, firmly fixed, & timed, 
-- as you can with music." In a postscript she enthuses, "You are good 
at seeing things in your poems, an absolute march of magnificent visions 
... the thought comes in pictures. I'm not much good about poetry, can't 
think why, it's odd somehow, as I never seem to stop writing it." 
Excellent content. Usual fold from mailing. About Fine and scarce. 
(#019339)        $1,000.00

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