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Total number of records: 19
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 10
Date(s): [4 May 1906] - 6 Jan 1952; 5 n.d.
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C3
Note: One letter written following Masefield's 80th birthday (ie 1 June 1958); another dated by Arthur Ransome Oct 11, 1951
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 2
Date(s): 20 Sep 1951; 1951
Location: BC Ransome; both pinned into middle of Notebook 5 ["B, 1945"] in MS section on Masefield
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Masson, Miss
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Masson - Box 2
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Gibson. Box 3.
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Lay, Cecil Howard
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Lay
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Stevens, Greta
Letters: 58
Date(s): 17 Mar 1952 - c.1965
Location: BC MS 20c Masefield
Note: The letters, many discussing the work of W. B. Yeats and a Yeats commemorative event in 1964, are part of a collection including: (1) Four signed photographs of Masefield; photograph of a painting 'Pilot come ashore' by Jack B. Yeats; photographs of various ships; (2) Christmas cards; postcards; poetry cards by Masefield, including 'A Merry Christmas'; (3) A watercolour sketch of a ship by Masefield, inscribed 'The Greta'; (4) Four printed books by Masefield: 'With the living voice', 1925; 'The Conway', 1933; 'In the mill', 1941; 'New chum', 1944, all inscribed 'For Greta from John'; a fifth printed book by Masefield, 'Dauber and Reynard the Fox', 1962, inscribed 'For Jonathan Lee from John'; (5) Newspaper cuttings of Masefield's obituaries, 1967.
Sender: Gawsworth, John
Recipient: Masefield, John
Letters: 3
Date(s): 1 May 1943 - 22 November 1948
Location: BC MS 20c Gawsworth / Envelope 3
Note: The 1943 letter is a draft or copy. The 1948 letter is represented by two separate drafts (counted as separate letters)
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Gawsworth, John
Letters: 2
Date(s): 3 March 1939 - 26 August 1955
Location: BC MS 20c Gawsworth / Envelope 3
Note: Copies in Gawsworth's hand, with a note that the original of the 3 March 1939 letter was sent to T. Sturge Moore on 5 March 1939
Sender: Callender, Louisa
Recipient: Masefield, John
Letters: 1
Date(s): 22 March 1945
Location: BC MS 20c Gawsworth / Envelope 3
Note: On behalf of Heinemann publisher, referring to a typescript by Gawsworth.
Sender: Gawsworth, John
Recipient: Masefield, John
Letters: 2
Date(s): Probably 8 March 1939
Location: BC MS 20c Gawsworth / Envelope 2
Note: Two draft letters on the subject of C. StJ. Pulley's letter to Gawsworth about his nomination for the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature (q.v.), one of them with a handwritten copy of Pulleys' letter and the other with pencilled corrections by T. Sturge Moore.
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Cockerell, Sir Sidney Carlyle
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 May 1930
Location: BC Misc. letters 2
Note: Autograph card of thanks for congratulations on being made Poet Laureate.
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Gosse, Philip
Letters: 1
Date(s): [10 Nov 1931]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In box LETTERS ... presented by Dr Philip Gosse
Note: Not in printed catalogue.