Autograph letter signed, 1½-pages 4to, to Kit Parry of the Salisbury Poetry Circle making arrangements for his intended talk to its members and amusingly reminiscing,
by WALKER, TED (1934 - 2004; poet):
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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"I was interested to hear about the old Diocesan College
I have very vivid memories of the place as it was in 1953 when I went to a dance there one summer's evening. Terrifying! The Principal obviously disapproved of all males (can't blame her for that!). We danced to gramophone records. I think all of us chaps had to be vetted. A contingent of what were called 'Y.O's' (young officers) had been brought in by bus from somewhere: They were O.K. because they were 'gentlemen' who held the King's Commission - or was it the Queen's by then? I was okay because I was an undergraduate at Cambridge. Young theological students from across the Close were okay because they were Men of God. After it was dark outside, suddenly a huge stag beetle got into the hall, terrifying the young ladies. The Principal immediately turned off all the lights (which the Y.O's took as an unexpectedly propitious sign inviting dalliance); but then she switched them on again, to show how the stag beetle had fallen helpless to the floor. Which is what I wanted to do
" Annotated by the recipient at end, usual fold marks. Argyll House, Chichester; 24th Sept., '93.
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- Autograph letter signed, 1½-pages 4to, to Kit Parry of the Salisbury Poetry Circle making arrangements for his intended talk to its members and amusingly reminiscing,
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- WALKER, TED (1934 - 2004; poet):
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