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Letter from John McCrae to Carleton Noyes, with poem, In Flanders Fields
Letter from John McCrae to Carleton Noyes, with poem, In Flanders Fields
CA OSLER P073-1 · Item · May 1916
Part of Andrew Macphail Fonds

The item consists of a letter sent from John McCrae while on active duty to Carleton Noyes, Cambridge, MA, with an envelope postmarked 31 May 1916. Enclosed with the letter is an autographed signed copy of McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields. The poem's first line in this copy ends with the word “grow,” a change from the published version in which the line finishes with “blow.” In his letter, McCrae modestly notes that the poem had achieved some level of notoriety.

 McCrae, John, 1872-1918
Andrew Macphail Fonds
CA OSLER P073 · Fonds · 1918-1921

Fonds documents a portion of the literary activities of Sir Andrew Macphail with the typescript of In Flanders Fields and Other Poems by Lieut.-Col. John McCrae M.D. with the Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail, originally published in 1919. The typescript is accompanied by a signed letter from Macphail. The fonds also contains a letter from John McCrae while on active duty in France to Carleton Noyes, Cambridge, MA, with an envelope postmarked 31 May 1916. Enclosed with the letter is an autographed signed copy of McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields.

 Macphail, Andrew, 1864-1938