Handwritten letter signed. James Sutton to Philip Larkin, writing from the army (aboard a ship).

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Discusses being on the ship as a adventure and muses on the nature of the sea. Refers to D. H. Lawrence; 'Sons and Lovers' (Lawrence); (Richard Henry) Dana's 'Two Years Before the Mast'; (Herman) Melville's 'Moby Dick'; Paul Nash (painter); W. H. Auden; 'The Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine' (Lawrence); Kingsley Amis; and Philip Brown. 12pp

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