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Letters 2001
David Mitson
12 - ii - 01
Dear Nick
Another enjoyable Newsletter which concentrated my mind on the 1950's. I'm sure you remember that JHA used to have a printed slim volume of Poetry, to be learnt by boys in their first and second(?) years. They were produced in the Print Club, and I recall doing some of the type setting. There were at least two produced, and odd snatches lurk in my mind - no doubt just as JHA knew they would. I remember one about Columbus and his 'doom laden caravels', and another (by RLS?) describing a horse's eye catching the firelight 'like a topaz in the dark'. Do you, or does anyone, have any of these that I might copy, to see just what the poems were, and no doubt how badly I remember the few lines still in my head?
On bookish topics, I read Rathbone's (just before your time) 'The Last English King', reviewed in the 1999 Newsletter. If you haven't, I suggest you do. Not perhaps quite to JHA's taste, but many things weren't.
Will try to make the 02 dinner - once a year is too much at my age.
David Mitson (53-57)