Title: Charles Wrey Gardiner Letter (VMF057), 1941
Administrative/Biographical History
Charles Wrey Gardiner (1901 – 1981) was an English writer and poet, editor and publisher, born in Plymouth. Gardiner was a noted and well-connected literary figure, particularly in London in the years around World War II, though very much in the tradition of the literary amateur. His importance in publishing was through editorial work for the little magazine Poetry Quarterly from 1939 to 1953, and the establishment of the Grey Walls Press, in Billericay, Essex, in 1940. His many works include Sharp Scorpions: Poems (1941), The Gates of Silence (1944), The Dark Thorn (1946) and A Season of Olives (1948). He left a great deal of autobiography in manuscript.
