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Letters
2 ALsS. Writes of the weekend he spent with the Meynells: "He is very brisk & bright for his years talking most interestingly of all whom he knew personally - Stevenson, Wilde, Meredith, Patmore, & Francis Thompson." Also asks Adelman to obtain Mrs. Eakins' permission to reproduce Eakins' paintings The Agnew clinic and The Gross clinic in his book on America.
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ALS. Writes to tell him of her appreciation for his interest, as a collector, in her brother.
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ALS. Written on Encounter stationery. Writes that he will not be in America until after April 15, 1963.
Letters
2 ALsS. Wishes Adelman success with Churchill Exhibition. "I should like a Catalogue of your Churchilliana to show Winston and young Randolph."
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ALS. Explains her tardiness in not sending him permission to publish a new edition of the Flying Fame Press illustrations. "You have my full permission for you to do this." Goes on at length to describe the new production of Claud Lovat Fraser's designs for dress fabrics.
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ALS. Praises the beauty and quality of Adelman's Lovat Fraser exhibition catalogue. Regrets she cannot accept his invitation to visit the exhibition ("I am rich enough but not young enough"). Describes her collection of Lovat Fraser works. She mentions that Fraser once asked her to marry him and that Hodgson's poem Eve was written about her.
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ALS. Thanks his correspondent for several gifts, including a publisher's agreement. "As you say, it means a great deal to me."
Letters
13 ALsS. In reply to Adelman's letters, Housman answers questions raised by his enthusiastic admirer and collector. Topics discussed include A Shropshire lad (various editions, the influence of Heine therein, problems with illustrations by Lovat Fraser), his Fragments of a Greek tragedy, Oscar Wilde ("Parts of ... Reading Gaol are above Wilde's average, but I suspect they were written by Lord Alfred Douglas"), and Francis Thompson. Housman also defines poetry in a letter of 6 May 1928: "I can no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat; but he knows a rat when he comes across one, and I recognize poetry by definite physical sensations, either down the spine, or at the back of the throat, or in the pit of the stomach."
Letters
12 ALsS. To the American collector of Francis Thompson, Meynell writes: "You have ... the most important Thompson collection in the world - outside my own drawers!" This important early letter discusses Thompson's relationship with John Lane, the street-girl, and his opium addiction. Other letters refer to their mutual collections of Thompsoniana, Adelman's placement of his collection at Boston College, a discussion of Thomas Eakins, John S. Sargent, exhibitions of Thompson materials. Scattered throughout are Meynell's observations on his friend, Francis Thompson.
Correspondence
74 ALsS and 42 APcS. The work and life of Thomas Eakins are discussed, as are exhibitions, auctions, and publications pertaining to Eakins. The bulk of the correspondence (1939-1940) deals with Adelman's and Bregler's attempts to establish an Eakins museum at the site of Eakins' home.
