The Letters of Edward Thomas to Jesse Berridge

from the library of author, historian and anthologist, Anne Powell

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First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, 97pp.

Not signed but this copy comes from the library of Anne Powell, historian, anthologist and author on the First and Second World Wars.

Edward Thomas and Jesse Berridge first met in London in 1901. Thomas had just left Oxford and Berridge was working in a City bank. Their friendship lasted until Thomas was killed in France in 1917; by then he was known in the literary world as a leading critic, essayist, and biographer, but only to his close friends as a poet. Berridge, who had been ordained in 1906, had then just become rector of Little Baddow; in the remaining fifty years of his life he became a distinguished Essex archaeologist, author of five historical novels, and a canon of Chelmsford. In the introduction and epilogue, Anthony Berridge gives an account of the lives of both men: he also relates how Helen Thomas and her children kept in touch with Jesse Berridge and with such other old friends as Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Frost and Duncan Williams, for many years after Edward Thomas's death.

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This copy is in very good condition.