ORIGINAL POEM BY MEYERSTEIN MEYERSTEIN (E.[dward] H.[arry] W.[illiam], 1889-1952, English Writer and Scholar, writer of the life of Thomas Chatterton)

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear President’, Austin LANE POOLE (1889-1963, Historian, from 1913 Tutor, then Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, President, 1947-1957) saying that he was “shocked and grieved to hear of Miss Lane Poole’s death, and I condole with you on your loss. There are some people of whom one does not think as departing this life, and she was one of them. During the War years I enjoyed her gracious hospitality in Walton Street, and I shall miss her (I know this) when next I attend a Sunday service in Magdalen Chapel. The following lines and this translation, occurred to me quite spontaneously, and I send them as a token of my real regret on a great loss to classical scholarship...” there follows a poem in Latin and. the translation “What her mind knew it gave, and what / It did not know within upgrew / Till it blazed forth with grace most due / Much wept she went; without a spot / Now bides she in a learned plot / A hope, a rose that shines anew!...”, 1 side 4to., 3 Gray’s Inn Place, 29th March 1947

Meyerstein’s novel Tom Tallion was published in 1952.

Item Date:  1951

Stock No:  41835      £150

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