Item 9 - Letter from George Mallory to Ruth Turner, 21 May 1914

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MCPP/GM/3/1/1914/9

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Letter from George Mallory to Ruth Turner, 21 May 1914

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  • 21 May 1914 (Creation)

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Letter to Ruth Turner, written from Charterhouse School [Ruth was in Ireland with her family]

It was a wonderful that she loved him and wanted to know him and that his letters had meaning to her.

She mustn’t depend too much on him as he might affect her growth and she his. There must be separate individual growths. He was not perfect and didn't wish to be because it would be very dull. She was so disturbing to his balance that he didn't now whether he was on his head or his heels.

He was reading Clutton-Brock’s book on William Morris whom he admired. Morris was the foundation of all their present revolt against the heritage of Victorian ugliness. He had also read two new sonnets by Keats which expressed exactly his own feeling. That was what the great poets did for us.

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Clutton-Brock, Arthur, William Morris. His Work and Influence (1914)

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