It seems fitting that, as I have been writing about you, I should submit for your
inspection what I have written, and therefore I send to you by this mail a copy of
Murray's Magazine for the present month.1 Whether or not
you will approve of what I say, I cannot tell; but of this I am sure that it is
sincerely spoken and not in haste. I hardly know loc.03216.002_large.jpg
loc.03216.003_large.jpg how many years
it is since I began to prepare it. Some four or five years ago I read a portion of
it to a society of "Literary & Scientific" persons (as they styled themselves)
in Birkenhead, and succeeded in stimulating them to enquire for themselves about the
brave poet of whom they had often heard but knew little. Again, last December, a
more important society in Liverpool listened to what I had to say on the same
subject. Part of what I told them is contained in the present article & part in
a pamphlet which I will send you later on, as soon
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I may say that at this meeting I had the pleasure of hearing several warm admirers
of yourself discuss my paper. Mr. E. R. Russell,2 the
editor of the Liverpool Post and late M. P for Glasgow had
some good & wise words to say. Perhaps in its printed form my article may
stimulate others to enquire. If so I shall be well satisfied.
Correspondent:
Little is known about Walter
Lewin, a journalist from Bebington (near Liverpool). He apparently published
frequently in The Academy.