BIB_ID
210214
Accession number
MA 1617.75
Creator
Brown, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1830-1897.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1872 November 6.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.5 cm
Notes
This letter is one of a collection of thirty-three letters (MA 1617.75 - MA 1617.107) from T. E. Brown to W. E. Henley written between November 6, 1872 and September 28,1897.
Written on the stationery of Clifton College with its crest.
Written on the stationery of Clifton College with its crest.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Relating news of his wife and child; saying "We have been in troubles dire. When I got your first letter I was expecting the death of one of my children hourly; and ever since July my wife has been in a precarious state. She is now somewhat better, and the child doing fairly. But I have had no holiday, and am really fagged. I like your being at Margate. It is a healthier atmosphere in every way than London. It will get the gas out of your brain, and conduce to sound action of that organ so unhappily entrusted to us all! at least to - but - well - never mind, to you at any rate, in large measure too. Do send me your two poems... I have not the books you ask for; but, if you are to be much longer at Margate, let me know, and I will look up my stores. I have but little time to read, but what I read is the absolutely [illegible]. I have no time for experiments...I could read Milton for ever."
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