[Vwoolf] Museum 2621

Mary Ellen Foley mefoleyuk at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 07:30:59 EST 2014


THAT is BRILLIANT!

What put you on to it?

Mary Ellen

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Stuart N. Clarke
<stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:
> “... the streets in the neighbourhood of the Museum were full of open
> coal-holes, down which sacks were showering; four-wheeled cabs were drawing
> up and depositing on the pavement corded boxes containing, presumably, the
> entire wardrobe of some Swiss or Italian family seeking fortune or refuge or
> some other desirable commodity which is to be found in the boarding-houses
> of Bloomsbury in the winter.”
> (“A Room of One’s Own”, [Hogarth Press, 1929], ch. ii, p. 39)
>
>
> DIALLING TONES
>
> MUSeum.
>
>
>
> When I dial M-U-S,
>
> What I see is what you guess.
>
>
>
> From the BM clad in stone,
>
> From the Reading Room’s vast dome,
>
> All through the busy welter,
>
> Past the Swiss seeking shelter,
>
> Past the sacks of gleaming coal
>
> Pouring down a pavement hole,
>
> To some shabby houses there—
>
> 52 Tavistock Square.
>
> Lawyers’ clients come and go
>
> On the Hogarth Press below
>
> Mrs Woolf is pacing there
>
> In the garden of the square,
>
> A.m., p.m., as inclined,
>
> Another novel in her mind.
>
>
>
> What I see is what you guess,
>
> When I dial M-U-S.
>
>
>
> In the Jan-Jun 1931 vol. of “Punch”, there are sonnets (or perhaps they’re
> just 14-line poems) inspired by some of the former London dialling codes --
> AVEnue, FAIrfield, FRObisher, GULliver, HILlside, PRImrose, RIVerside – and
> illustrated by Ernest Shepard.  I find that the poems were written by “Jan
> Struther”:
>
> http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/struther/sycamore/sycamore.html
>
>
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
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