BIB_ID
430636
Accession number
MA 1617.95
Creator
Brown, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1830-1897.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1891 June 17.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 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.
Brown wrote an earlier letter on the same day (MA 1617.94) saying he thought his poem was too long to print in the Observer and he would not send it.
Brown wrote an earlier letter on the same day (MA 1617.94) saying he thought his poem was too long to print in the Observer and he would not send it.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Sending him the manuscript of "Peel Lifeboat;" saying "Our letters must have crossed. Well, there seems no help for it; so I send my 'Peel Lifeboat.' It has 'Life' and go in it, but not enough mass and tone. The incident happened in 1889; the details are factual. I read the newspaper account to the assembled school, and we sent our admiration to Charlie Cain & his crew in a document signed by the Head Master and the Head of the School. The service was a thrilling one, and almost unparalleled in the history of the Institution. Of course the poem has a local basis, but it reaches out into imperial dimensions of interest. Now, I honestly don't think it will do for your book; and I am very sorry, for I ought to have given you something fit. But your book will have, for the most part, much Olympic stuff, that no one can complain of, however much he may regret his exclusion therefrom."
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