RARE “English Writer\" Martin Armstrong Hand Written Letter Dated 1920 For Sale

Up for sale "English Writer" Martin Armstrong Hand Written Letter Dated 1920.

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Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (2 October 1882 –

24 February 1974) was an English writer and poet, known for his stories.

Armstrong was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and

educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College,

Cambridge. During World War I he volunteered with the British Army and served in France as a Private in the Artists' Rifles. He was commissioned into the 8th

Battalion Middlesex Regiment, T.F. in 1915 and promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1916. He was included in the final Georgian Poetry anthology. He married in 1929 Canadian writer Jessie

McDonald after she had divorced Conrad Aiken, making Armstrong the stepfather of the

young Joan Aiken. He appears in disguised form as a character in

Conrad Aiken's Ushant.