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