Brooke (Rupert).- Jackson (Henry) Texts to illustrate a Course of Elementary Lectures on the History of Greek Philosophy from Thales to Aristotle, Rupert Brooke's annotated copy, signed and dated 1907 in pencil on front free endpaper, pencil marginalia on 7 pages and ?ink annotation on 1 page, original cloth, bookplate of Lord Elton of Headington, London & New York, 1901; and a late edition of Brooke's Collected Poems, with presentation inscription from Brooke's mother to Evelyn Wellburn, together with a mounted ALs on front pastedown and 2 further letters in an envelope tipped in at end, 8vo; and a plaster-cast of a portrait of Brooke (3)

⁂ Rupert Brooke's copy of a book on Greek philosophy used by him while studying Classics at Cambridge. The accompanying copy of Brooke's Collected Poems was presented by his mother to Evelyn Wellburn, a schoolboy friend, on his marriage, and dated 1929 "Your mother will remember my son Rupert & your father knew him very well." There are 2 poignant mourning letters from Mrs Brooke in an envelope at end: one A.L.s. dated 8 May 1915, thanking Wellburn for his "beautiful letter" [about Rupert Brooke's death on 23 April 1915 on Skyros in Greece from septicaemia from an infected mosquito bite] - "he has indeed left a glory behind him"; the other a printed note, dated June 1915, regarding her "second great sorrow" [the death of her other son, 2nd Lt. William Alfred Cotterill Brooke, killed in northern France 14 June 1915], signed in ink at foot and annotated "My heart is so broken that I can't write an ordinary letter."