Loose insert from Phoebe Hesketh,Prayer for sun

  • Reference
    • GB 133 NBK/118
  • Alternative Id.
      (Book Accession Number) GB 133 R163883
  • Dates of Creation
    • 24 Mar 1968
  • Physical Description
    • 2 sheets

Scope and Content

Loose material from Phoebe Hesketh, Prayer for sun (London: Hart-Davis, 1966), consisting of a letter to Nicholson from Hesketh, relating to: her enjoyment of Nicholson's part in the recent [BBC television] programme Meeting point, on the subject of life and death; plans she has been making with Helen Wickham (wife of the Bishop of Middleton) for readings and discussion on the same subject at Manchester Cathedral; her hope of quoting Nicholson on death and how illness has affected his work, asking in particular if he has a copy of [his verse drama] Birth by drowning from which she might choose something. She also refers to a previous meeting with Nicholson and his wife at a reading, and notes that she is sending a copy of her latest volume of poems.

Dated at Rivington, Lancashire; holograph. Inserted inside front cover.