English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the World War I, who tragically passed away at age 27 due to an infected mosquito bite (1887-1915). ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 3.75 x 6, black-bordered School Field, Rugby letterhead, February 17, 1910. Letter to “My dear Michael,” most likely noted bibliographer, collector, and novelist Michael Sadleir, in part: “It was very good of you to write. As a matter of fact your first letter came before my father was ill, even. But I was ill then; and that, not, I do assure you forgetfulness, accounted for my silence…As a matter of fact I had dug up a thing I wrote some little while since. But it's in the prose style of my dead distant past, & a footling thing, though I still find a joy in reading it quietly. So look at it & return it me, unless you want to fill up a corner. And I'll send you something more intelligent & brutal.” In fine condition, with central vertical and horizontal folds. Sadleir and Brooke had attended Rugby together beginning in 1906, and Sadleir would help John Middleton Murry establish the modernist Rhythm literary magazine in 1911; perhaps the piece Brooke references was an early submission to the as-yet unrealized scheme. An exceedingly rare letter with superb literary content.
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