MASEFIELD, John
Letter to Helen Rochester Rogers, February 24, 1949

Masefield (1878-1967) was appointed the Poet Laureate of Britain in 1930. Helen Rochester Rogers (great-granddaughter of the founder of Rochester) met Masefield when she volunteered for service with the American Expeditionary Force in England during World War I. Masefield--whose best-known poem begins “I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by”--has included a watercolor drawing of a sailing ship on this letter to Rogers. 

From the Helen Rochester Rogers Papers

Additional resources:

• The Helen Rochester Rogers Papers