Thomas Edward Brown, 1830-1897. British author
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The third son of the Rev.Robert Brown and Dorothy Thompson, and younger brother of the eminent Baptist divine, the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown. Educated partly in the parish school at Braddan and partly by his father, T.E. Brown went to King William's College at the age of 15. He secured several valuable successes at both the College and later at Oxford. In 1854 he obtained the highest academic honor, that of a Fellowship at Oriel. He was Vice-Principal of King William's College from 1855 to 1861 when he became headmaster of the Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester. He published several volumes of verse, the first being ' Betsy Lee, and other Poems," in 1881, and the whole were collected and published in one volume shortly after his death on a visit to Clifton. He is noted for notable for setting many of his poems in the Manx dialect. Many of his letters were also collected and published after his death and they have been praised for their candor and insight into the workings of a working poet’s mind.
The letter is from a Hartley to an Ira and relates to Brown's book, Betsy Lee, a fo'c's'le yarn.
Brown, Thomas Edward, 1830-1897. British author