MODERN POETS
PLEA FOR ENCOURAGEMENT. INTERESTING INCIDENT RECALLED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 18. (Received Jan. 19, at 5.30 p.m.) Mrs C. F. G. Mastcnnnn,widow of an ex-member of Cabinet, lecturing on how to encourage modern poets, related that a young man walked into a London newspaper office on a wet evening with water squelching from his boots and the soles parting from the uppers and asked to be given some book-reviewing. He was allowed to take a book. Some hours later he returned with some copy which the editor accepted. Lingering a minute the jouth asked if lie could have immediate payment. When asked his name he replied, “John Masefield.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20929, 20 January 1930, Page 7
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