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Letter from T.G. Hake, Heston, to W. E. Henley, 1887 June 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
105635
Accession number
MA 1617.177
Creator
Hake, Thomas Gordon, 1809-1895.
Display Date
Heston, England, 1887 June 20.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.2 cm
Notes
This letter is one of six letters from T.G. Hake to W.E. Henley written from June 20, 1887 to March 21, 1888 (MA 1617.177-183).
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Praising a poem; saying "This day in 1816 I made my first journey of 173 miles to school : to this must be traceable a childish wonder that comes over me when I read your utterly new poem done by your own psychographic process. It is so alive, so always going on, so perpetuated by you : it can never stop - you have enchanted it : alas! for human suffering!...I am much obliged to you for it; I like the strange work, (beauty says Verulamo Baco is always strange). I like it from my cerebral vibrations to the tips of my sensory nerves. It is future reading."