Manuscript Letters to Audrey Napier-Smith

A remarkable series of 1285 letters, written by Masefield to Audrey Napier-Smith, violinist in the Hall orchestra, provides an invaluable record of the Poet Laureate in his last 15 years. A selection of the letters, omitting most of the personal and biographical material) was published as Letters to Reyna edited by William Buchan in 1983. Grant from the Philip Larkin Fund