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BROOKE (Rupert).
Two autograph letters signed from Rupert Brooke, one dated December 17, 1913 (2 pp.) from ’Grand Hotel, Auckland, NZ’, the other dated July 21, 1914 in envelope post marked ‘London July 24 `14’ and addressed to ‘James Dixon Esq, Suva, Fiji’, the reverse of the envelope franked ‘PO Suva 2 Sep 1914’. 68 67; together with SYNGE (J M) Deidre of the Sorrows a Play, Dublin 1911, small 8vo, inscription to front free end paper ‘Miss Dixon/ from/ Rupert Brooke/1913’, vellum backed (3) The first letter starts 'New Zealand isn't so bad, I wandered into a shop and found a few passable and possible books.... to prevent quarrelling, I send a book to each. But as an antifeminist I believe in the family as a unit... But I trust that not even Mrs Dixon has read all. And, officially, as a Don and a Lecturer in Literature, I can recommend them.' Brooke goes on to say he has missed his boat '..on the 2nd I go to Tahiti, then 'Frisco--- and Home'. The second letter written from Rugby, is one of sympathy to Mr Dixon who is suffering from a painful condition '..You seem to be very brave: and that makes me proud. One feels "it hit him. It might have hit me God grant I should have borne it as bravely". ...The Life you led must have been fine: it was fine and lovely for a stranger to come into for a time. Finding you and your household in Fiji is the expression I treasure most and look back to with most delight in all my wanderings...' signed 'Goodbye and good luck, Rupert Brooke'.

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