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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Bengali poet, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1913, Signed letter addressed to the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry Cousins, enclosing revisions to a poem making part of 'The Fugitive', which was published in July 2018. (4)
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Letter sourced from the property adjoining Lobswood House, originally called ‘Black Lake Cottage’, the summer retreat of author Sir JM Barrie from 1901 to 1908, the years in which he created Peter Pan and where Barrie entertained his cricketing friends (many of whom are well known authors and playwrights) and the Llewelyn Davies family.
FOOTNOTE
A book has been published September 2021, titled Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins: A Conversation in Letters, 1915–1940. According to the marketing description of this book: The volume explores their shared ideas of culture, art, aesthetics, and education in India; aspects of Irish Orientalism; Irish literary revival; theosophy, eastern knowledge, and spiritualism etc. The book reveals a hitherto unexplored facet concerning two leading thinkers in the history of ideas in a transnational context.
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