Masefield (John)

Autograph letter signed ('J. Masefield') to the vendor, reading "I thank you for your letter. The advice I give is that given to myself in the past. Be in no hurry to try to publish. Read all the poetry that pleases you, especially the older poets, whose faults are now plain. Practise writing all kinds of verse that please you. Speak the results aloud to patient friends, and mark where you fail to please or interest. Try various ways of writing, song, tale, play", two pages, vertical folding mark, light creasing, oblong 8vo, Burcote Brook, Abingdon, n.d.