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BRONTE, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848). Autograph manuscript signed ('P.B. Bronte'), of a poem beginning
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BRONTE, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848). Autograph manuscript signed ('P.B. Bronte'), of a poem beginning
'The Man who will not know another
Whose heart could never sympathise
Who loves no comrade, friend or brother
Unhonoured lives, unnoticed dies!',
addressed to his friend Francis Grundy, reproving him of an imagined slight, and exhorting him to more kindly behaviour,
However mean a man may be,
Know - man is man as well as thee;
However high thy gentle line,
Know he who writes can rank with thine.'
26 lines of verse written in ink on both sides of a 4to leaf, printed heading of 'Manchester and Leeds Railway Co.', 11 words underlined, dated in Grundy's hand in the margin of the verso '5 May 1842' then amended to '1844' (dampstains, splitting at folds, small tear in blank portion of leaf, tipped onto lined paper).
The original and previously untraced manuscript of a poem written while Branwell Bronte was Clerk in Charge at Luddenfoot Station, a post which he held from April 1841 until his dismissal early in March 1842. Grundy, a railway engineer and three years younger than Branwell, recorded their friendship in his autobiographical volume Pictures of the Past (1878), citing the text of the poem of which he writes, 'On one occasion he [Branwell] thought that I was disposed to treat him distantly at a party, and he retired in great dudgeon. When I arrived at my lodgings the same evening, I found the following, necessarily an impromptu'. It was in fact an adaption of one written several years before. Grundy, writing over thirty years later, is frequently inaccurate in his dating, and the present verses must have been composed before Branwell's return to Haworth in April 1842.
Provenance: by descent from Francis Grundy.
'The Man who will not know another
Whose heart could never sympathise
Who loves no comrade, friend or brother
Unhonoured lives, unnoticed dies!',
addressed to his friend Francis Grundy, reproving him of an imagined slight, and exhorting him to more kindly behaviour,
However mean a man may be,
Know - man is man as well as thee;
However high thy gentle line,
Know he who writes can rank with thine.'
26 lines of verse written in ink on both sides of a 4to leaf, printed heading of 'Manchester and Leeds Railway Co.', 11 words underlined, dated in Grundy's hand in the margin of the verso '5 May 1842' then amended to '1844' (dampstains, splitting at folds, small tear in blank portion of leaf, tipped onto lined paper).
The original and previously untraced manuscript of a poem written while Branwell Bronte was Clerk in Charge at Luddenfoot Station, a post which he held from April 1841 until his dismissal early in March 1842. Grundy, a railway engineer and three years younger than Branwell, recorded their friendship in his autobiographical volume Pictures of the Past (1878), citing the text of the poem of which he writes, 'On one occasion he [Branwell] thought that I was disposed to treat him distantly at a party, and he retired in great dudgeon. When I arrived at my lodgings the same evening, I found the following, necessarily an impromptu'. It was in fact an adaption of one written several years before. Grundy, writing over thirty years later, is frequently inaccurate in his dating, and the present verses must have been composed before Branwell's return to Haworth in April 1842.
Provenance: by descent from Francis Grundy.