Letter from T. E. Brown, Keswick, to W. E. Henley, 1873 September 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying "I am astonished at the pluck which you show under all this great trouble which would surely crush a less intrepid spirit than yours. What secret spring of hope and joy do you possess, bidden from healthy and strong men, God-revealed to you!...I have been in Scotland, 'doing' 30 or 35 miles a day over the heather. I only came back about 10 days ago; and little did I think when in Edinburgh for a night that you were there. I know a man in Edinburgh, a Mr. Van Laun, French Teacher at the Academy, whose conversation would I think amuse, and perhaps cheer you. He is full of literature to the lips, but a strange wayward being; very witty; very absurd. I shall write to him, and ask him to go and see you. I am here without books. But Van Laun has a capital and highly miscellaneous library, and will, I feel sure, place it largely at your disposal. Write to me soon again, and tell me how you are getting on;" adding, in a postscript, I will see to the M.S.S. A man who had them went off to the Mediterranean and left them locked up. I can get them now. He has returned a new man, and doubtless with the key."