BLUNDEN

thanking him for his letter and hoping that literary interests will lighten the burden of army life as long as that is your portion. For my part I have (including military duties) rather a lot to do, and you will pardon a short letter from a weary pen, perhaps the few lines appended will meet your wish to have something in the way of an autograph..., together with a complete short poem signed titled 'The Lost Name', starting No ship perhaps again will ever bear / That fatal name / Which at the christening challenged everywhere / Seafaring fame / But was to see calamity so vast / Multiplied so / That times may quite forget that wreck of the past / No one would know / And under her grey name a proud new ship / May yet advance / Thronged with young faces brilliant for the trip / God guard the dance!, 1 side 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 12 Woodstock Close, Oxford, 1st December