Posted by John Wilson on April 24, 2004 at 11:44:00 from 202.154.157.203 user hugo.
John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) then editor of the avant-garde modernist magazine of art and literature “Rhythm” (1911-13) mentions AR in one of his letters (published 1983) to his lover/wife the short story writer Kathleen Mansfield (1888-1923; born here in Wellington, NZ), though she does not mention AR in her letters or journal:
20(?) May 1913, written from 57 Chancery Lane London:
Tig Darling ........ “Ransome was here yesterday & today trying to inveigle me into the country with him. I was adamant. Wilfred’s going however next weekend, so we shall be alone - which is first rate ..... “.
At the end he says “Visitors today Curle Swinnerton Davies Boulestin Ransome Spring-Rice all at difft. times.”
Wilfred who presumably went with AR to the country (and left them alone!) was Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878-1962), poet and contributor to “Rhythm”.
Mentioned in Murry’s previous letter is Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938), poet, dramatist and critic who contributed in 1913 to “Rhythm” and its successor the “Blue Review”.