Inscribed on the colophon to Eddie Marsh “E.M. - with the warmest remembrances from Edward Davison”. Scottish born, Davison was professor of English at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He had an unusual and difficult war, naturalising as an American citizen and running the Nazi re-education programme for German prisoners of war. The connection with Marsh may have come through Robert Frost, Dymock poet and friend of Davison.