| Description | Signed, manuscript letter, dated 8 October, the Abbey, Carlisle. Having been re-reading Lodge's work on 'the War, Past Present and Future', Rawnsley sends a presentation copy of his own book, 'The European War 1914-1915 Poems' (London: J. and J. Bennett Ltd, 1915). He concludes with brief comments on the war, notably 'The Devil is having his way in the Balkans'.
The letter is annotated in pencil, 'Acknowledged'.
[Lodge's, 'The War and after: short chapters on subjects of serious practical import for the average citizen in A. D. 1915 onwards', was published by Methuen [1915]
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| Administrative History | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1851-1920), was a clergyman, conservationist and poet. In 1884, he founded the Keswick School of Industrial Arts with his first wife, Edith Fletcher. He co-founded the National Trust and was a long-term campaigner for preservation of the Lake District. In 1912 he was made honorary chaplain to King George V. Source: Murphy, Graham. 'Rawnsley, Hardwicke Drummond (1851–1920).' Graham Murphy In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed., edited by Lawrence Goldman, May 2011. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37884 (accessed January 27, 2015). |