A FEW FOOTPRINTS

TJohn Passmore EdwaJrdsJohn Passmore Edwards e 1823-1911Autobiography of John Passmore Edwards

Foot Notes

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When opening the Redruth Free Library in May, 1895,1 said: "Many a time l walked the three miles from Blackwater to Redruth, under a June or July sun, with three or four gallons of strawberries, and, after selling them as I best could, returned home with a light heart in proportion to the money value I received. Had l anticipated or dreamed then that nearly half a century after I should bring to Redruth something very different from and more lasting than strawberries-a public library and that I should receive such smiles and good wishes as had been showered upon me that day, I should have walked home with less anxiety and a more elastic heart."
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When opening the Redruth Free Library in May, 1895,1 said: "Many a time l walked the three miles from Blackwater to Redruth, under a June or July sun, with three or four gallons of strawberries, and, after selling them as I best could, returned home with a light heart in proportion to the money value I received. Had l anticipated or dreamed then that nearly half a century after I should bring to Redruth something very different from and more lasting than strawberries-a public library and that I should receive such smiles and good wishes as had been showered upon me that day, I should have walked home with less anxiety and a more elastic heart."
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Chart and Compass, the organ of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, thinks it is an interesting coincidence that "Jack" Edwards, the Cornish boy, should in after years become the founder of "Jack's Palace" in Commercial Road, Stepney.
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April 17, 2005