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noticed them.

I would your collection were not so complete:
but as it is I feel a mischievous and self-annihil-
atory desire to make it completer; and I am sending
with this a collection of odds and ends that I think
may have escaped you, in the hope that you may
care to add them to the rest.

From what you said I think you have the
first edition of my collected plays: in which case
you will not have the dedicatory poem for "Mid-
summer Eve," which was only added in the second
edition and which seems to me one of my better
poems. I had a few copies printed on larger
paper for insertion in my own copies of the first
edition; so I send one of these also, in the hope that
you haven't seen it: and to it I am adding two
plates of models made by my friend Paul Nash for
"K. Lear's Wife" and "Gruach," which make rather
nice frontispieces for my two play-books if you do not

mind the trouble of inserting them.

I wonder if you are at Letterewe or in Tweed-
dale at this moment? We have seen both places
for the first time this year, and I don't know which
holds us more firmly: Letterewe has it for loveli-
ness, perhaps (my only disparagement of it would be
that it is on the wrong side of the loch for seeing
Slioch); but Tweed-dale has an incomparable
sweep, and the long array of its human assoc-
iations weights the scale heavily. And we haven't
seen it above Peebles!

Masefield asks me to return to Oxford next
July: I trust I may sit next to you again.
In the meantime, with my kind regards, I am
yours sincerely

Gordon Bottomley.