MASEFIELD JOHN: (1878-1967) British Poet Laureate 1930-67. Collection of nine A.Ls.S., John Masefield, and seven with his first name only, fourteen pages (total), oblong 8vo, Burcote Brook, Abingdon and n.p., n.d., each to Ruth [Robinson]. Masefield writes a series of social letters to his friend, thanking her for gifts, and for the years of friendship ('since the famous rendering of Medea when your speaking first delighted me') and also sending his own good wishes to her for Christmas and Birthdays ('Now it is for me to write for your Birthday, to wish you a sunny day, & many happy years to come to you; & to thank you for so many long years of friendship & poetry'), and in one letter wishing her good luck with a production and remarking 'I will read the play afresh & send you some thing about it during the week: probably late in the week: for the book is astray somewhere'. Together with a typed letter, unsigned, two pages, oblong 8vo, n.p., n.d., encouraging his correspondent to write about the production of a Greek play. FR (1), otherwise generally VG, 10