9R. H. F. Scott-Stokes
to Harrod,
10 July 1920
[a]
Scott-Stokes
invites Harrod to read a paper at the Essay Society,
[1] and suggests that he joins the British-American Club,
of which he is the Secretary; Woodruff has already joined.
- 1. Harrod read an
essay on "The Lady from the Sea" before the New College Essay
Society on 16 October 1920; the essay, with annotations regarding
the impressions of Scott-Stokes, Bowra, Woodruff, Radcliffe,
Strauss, is housed in HPBL Add. 72807/75-95. A further letter from
Scott-Stokes of 19 July, concerning Harrod's proposed subject in
reply to a note by Harrod not found, is filed in HPBL Add.
72732/87. Maurice Bowra described Harrod's speech as being "less
about Ibsen than about himself as the only son of a widowed
mother" (C. M. Bowra, Memories 1898-1939, 1966, p. 98).
- a. From
Glastonbury, PcS, in HPBL Add. 72732/86.
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