Letter from T. E. Brown, N. Ramsey, Isle of Man, to W. E. Henley, 1891 April 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

Commenting, at length and in detail, on Henley's forthcoming Anthology [The School Edition of Lyra Heroica : an anthology selected from the best English verse of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries]; saying "Your Anthology is sure to be good. How to differentiate it from the Golden Treasury? We use the latter as a School book In that way I expect it has an enormous sale; though it is not a school book, thank God! Neither is yours;" commenting on his choice of poems and questioning why some have been omitted while others included; wishing him much success with the volume; adding, in a postscript, "I am here between the mountains and the sea - the classic position of Marathon. It is very good. I went up Glen Aldhyn. There is a series of tubs!!! Heaven help me! I was nearly in the lot of them. Each basin is a great cup of green water that is positively heavy with its transparency, waved all over with a kind of oily roll. The sides - first a faint dun shading off into silver, and lined with a brownish fluff; the grey, the blue, the black! Of the grey and the blue let me say that the tints are of the willow-pattern glaze. But - - - bless mee sowl!"