| Description | The framed letter reads:
Max gate, Dorchester, Dorset
25th September 1925
Dear Sir,
In reply to your letter, I send the following lines, which perhaps may suit the Memorial you propose:
If you think, have a kindly thought,
If you speak, speak generously
Of those who as heroes fought
And died, to keep you free.
Yours very truly
Thomas Hardy
Mr Alderman James Smellie J.P.
Mayor's Parlour
Dudley
[Thomas Hardy's lines/poem as written above were used on the Dudley Town Hall. We hold a slide showing this, ref: DGW/1/12/27. See also accession 331 which are two letters dated 1930, detailing how Thomas Hardy sent the letter to Dudley in Sep 1925]. |