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MAGGIE COBBETT Ripon, North Yorkshire
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Looking for Brady
People use all kinds of things as bookmarks, but the most interesting one that I’ve come across lately is an airmail letter written in 1967 and sent by a Mr Robert Kilian Brady in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to a Miss Elizabeth White in London. I was so intrigued by his account of recent activities, particularly the writing of a play about Mary Queen of Scots for a local amateur group to perform, that I turned to the internet to find out more about him.
Robert K Brady was not only the head of the British Council in Colombo during the 1960s but also a poet published by the Fortune Press along with Philip Larkin and Dylan Thomas. As he was in the RAF and stationed in Malta during the North African and Italian campaigns of World War II, it is little wonder that death is often present in the background of his writing. His work isn’t easy to track down nowadays, but here is an example I found:
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