Search Results: Military or Naval Military Literary from Sophie Dupre

(William Wetmore, 1819-1895, American Sculptor, Art Critic, Poet and Editor) saying that he has to "go to Ericksen... Your drama is very agreeable and entertaining to read, and runs very smoothly. It is quite of the style of those that were so successful at the P. of Wales's. What I am uncertain about is whether there is sufficient incident to maintain the interest of the audience. All that happens to the principal characters is the exchange of lovers - and I am not sure how far it will please, to see a young lady made twice happy by different men in the short space of three acts. However, this is a point of which I shd think you might implicitly take Bancroft's opinion - why not forward the piece to him? The chief incident at present is the exposure of the secondary personage, the Count. In order that the audience should rejoice at it, it wd be necessary that he should do something more deserving of chastisement than anything he previously does. As it is, it comes as a surprise… Read More

beginning "[the noble] army of Martyrs I mean Editors", congratulating the Primrose League on securing his correspondent as editor, and suggesting he lunch with him at his club, 1 side 8vo., no place, no date, c.

thanking him for "the copy of 'Poetry'... it was your first letter which brought it or the Empire Poetry League to my knowledge... I feel that if I, who have been closely attentive both to Imperial and poetic affairs for a great many years, was so ignorant, many other people must be also", as to "the meeting at the Lyceum Club on May 7, I only know that I was invited by the members (it is a ladies' club only) to dine and speak to them afterwards on poetry", he does not think the club is inviting non-members, "As to severity in criticism, personally I think one only need fear injustice... but I am grateful to you for your reassurance", 2 sides 8vo, 31 Kensington Square, W.8., 2nd May Lord Gorell was on the editorial staff of The Times, 1910-1915, Under Secretary for Air, 1921-1922, and editor of the Cornhill, 1933-1939. He founded the Royal Army Education Corps, and wrote poetry, fact, fiction and on religion.

(William Wetmore, 1819-1895, American Sculptor, Art Critic, Poet and Editor) saying that he thinks the "last communication which passed between our respective firms was a letter I posted to Madame le Conte at Naples when I lighted there for a moment on my way to Constantinople in '78. The excursion I made with my colleagues that year along the Balkans was perhaps the most agreeable I ever took part in - weather splendid, scenery grand, with the picturesque accompaniments of daily encampments, Russian cavalry as escor, and waggon trains drawn by oxen or buffaloes and driven by Bulgarian peasants, for our baggage. Early in June our way lay through fields of roses, then being gathered for the distilleries of otto, which we saw at work in every valley - next we entered a region of vineyards - and finally as we approached the Black Sea we traversed vast forests - and all the time the Balkan range, generally green to the summits, rose close by... as we cross and recrossed it in our visits to the… Read More