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One of the central figures of twentieth-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter-writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and enthusiasm …

Ford Madox Ford spent his last years in the south of France, near Toulon. In Provence (1935), written four years before his death, he explores both the place and the idea of it: ‘not a country nor th …

During a Christmas leave in London, Ford Madox Ford attended a party at the French Embassy, ‘a heavy blond man in a faded uniform’, wearied by years of war, recalled to a longing for the life of a wr …