Beschreibung:

63pp., 8vo and 4to, 1901-1930 and n.d., the early ones discussing works to be exhibited in the Wolverhampton exhibition, 1902, and another in Bradford 1904 for which Masefield was London Secretary, and works by Alfred Stevens available for purchase, others on his own poetry “So far you are the only critic who has spotted what I was getting at, and one of the rarest joys an artist has is being understood”; “I want to experiment this summer on a poetic form that will reject everything but life, keeping hard to life, as nakedly as Chaucer at his best”; five relating to the borrowing of “Salt Water Ballads” for the reprinting in 1913 [see lot 233]; one on his work as a hospital orderly during the war; one urging Hodson to establish a new press, "There is a school of young writers, fresh from the army, as revolutionary as the 1848 group. They have been made human by the war, & only need peace, to add beauty to their humanity.”, others on the younger poets reading their work, writing an epic about the war, and a review by Hodson of a history of Anne Bolyn (with Hodson’s manuscript), one on Cotswold Players headed paper enclosing a printed poem sent as Christmas greetings, 1922; and one reflecting on the 1902 exhibition which “was a real stirring thing, & entirely your show right through. Every good middle-aged painter now living must feel that it was his real start in life, & first encouragement”; together with a further 7 autograph or typed letters signed to Constance Belliss, 12pp. 8vo and 4to, 1905-1941 and n.d.; and a number of photographs, one a large portrait, oxidised at edges, but inscribed “For Con from ‘Macey’, Christmas 1925”.