1991.1016.3

Athenaeum

Poem by Emery Walker, Athenaeum, and written by F.S. Ellis. Written in black ink on heavy paper, dated Jan 2 1899. Found inserted in the book by Ellis, F.S. The History of Reynard the Fox., when acquired by the museum, shelf A5. Part of the Emery Walker Library.

1899-01-02 - 1899-01-02 1899 - 1899

19th century

Poem by Emery Walker from Athenæum January 2 1899 p. 70 Watts-Dunton[i] with hope that the sale he may shove Of his verse, now declares that: “The coming of love”, Though born before “Aylwin”, is really its sequel, And therefore in sale should be at least its equal. And why should it not? If one wants a good doze, His verse serves the twin just as well as his prose. Emery Walker Written by F. S. Ellis[ii] [Footnotes: [i]Theodore Watts-Dunton, (1832 – 1914), critic and poet. [ii] F. S Ellis was a late 19th century London-based publisher of works by, inter alia, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Walt Whitman. Ellis was one of Morris’s executors.. CAW]