ID: 8781  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze Type: Text    GREGORY Format: Medium: Letter Extent: 3 pp. Identifier: Source: Title: [Horace to Muriel] Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Gregory, Horace Role: Name: Created: 1936-07-03 Date: in/on: Language: English Rights: William L. Rukeyser (Davis, California) Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Berg Collection, N. Y. Public Library Coverage: Place: Time: Description: The letter is typed and the post scriptum is handwritten. Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Identity Subjects: Exchanges Subjects: Definitions of Culture Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Definitions of Culture Keywords: London Keywords: New York City Keywords: poetry Keywords: London Keywords: modern Keywords: Bryher (Winifred Ellerman) Keywords: Eliot, Thomas Stearns Keywords: Gregory, Horace Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel Keywords: Zaturenska, Marya Keywords: Modernism Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, London) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, New York City) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, poetry) Query Subject+Keyword: (Exchanges, London) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, modern) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Eliot, Thomas Stearns) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Gregory, Horace) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Zaturenska, Marya) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, Modernism) Comment: This letter should be read together with the letter written by Bryher to Rukeyser on the same day (see record [:53;53:] ). Horace Gregory and his wife Marya Zaturenska seemed to be ‘at home’ in London, where they had been able to spend some time in 1934, thanks to the generosity of Bryher herself. Worth quoting here are the lines of Gregory’s autobiography, The House on Jefferson Street (see record [:474;474:] ), where he recalls his first meeting with Bryher: “What did we talk of that afternoon? I am fairly certain that we talked of poets and poetry […] she thought H. D. excellent, Pound a shade inhuman […]. She doubted that the Maginot line was a tenable defense against the Nazis […]. At home I drew Bryher’s envelope from my pocket […]. It contained an invitation to visit her in London […] and with it a check to pay our passage across the Atlantic.[…] the gift came from someone we could respect, someone who had an artist’s temperament and insight” (209-210).