10.5287/BODLEIANDO4N.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The Tower of Sculls
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
1918-02-24
2011-11-30 22:20:50.419815
2011
IRBL103-c13323-61.jpg
Leaf
Reverse of pencil draft of poem written on Church Army paper. Included with letter to Gordon Bottomley mentioning still being in hospital but will likely be transferred to the trenches shortly / apologises for 'dreariness' of letter, but explains that the circumstances and experience of war makes it more difficult to write / discusses Gordon Bottomley' suggestions for alterations to 'The Unicorn' / has not incorporated changes to 'The Unicorn' as yet / is including instead various drafts, including a pencil draft of 'The Tower of Sculls' and typescripts of 'Returning, we hear the larks', 'The Burning of the Temple' and 'The Dying Soldier'.