Percy the Tease
I knew these little poetry books
were coming home with me
as soon as I read this inscription
in the Wordsworth book:
To dear Maid Marion from Percy the Tease! With many happy returns of the day. October 20, 1912
the inscription in the Browning book reads
‘To dearest Marion, with best love from Fluffs’
Do you think Percy the Tease is also Fluffs?
He must be, surely.
I hope Percy the Tease and his Maid Marion had a long and happy life together.
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
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May 21st, 2010 at 6:18 am
what wonderful inscriptions – you can’t help wondering what their story was, with the First World War just around the corner
May 21st, 2010 at 11:12 am
what a wonderful, funny and romantic find.
x
May 21st, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Hello, i’ve recently found your blog and enjoy reading it a lot.
The inscriptions are charming, you could invent a whole novel around those few words! 🙂
May 21st, 2010 at 7:25 pm
that is so lovely..
May 24th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Now there’s a cow parsley project in this month’s Stitch which I’m sure Maid Marion would have loved …!
May 24th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
That is so sweet. Just think how long this sentiment has lived, almost 100 years. Maid Marian would blush to think that we are reading this now.
That is quite a treasure
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:22 pm
I wish some Percy the Tease would come forward and give me books with inscriptions like that. I might be liable to marry him. Just because of the inscriptions.
June 2nd, 2010 at 7:48 pm
What a great find! I have a feeling if Maid Marian had a friend named Percy the Tease she wouldn’t be blushing. She’d be laughing uproariously along with the rest of us.