Rupert buxton The Pilgrimage of Thala, A Legend, a 24-stanza narrative

[geezjonathan]

Does any one knew where I can find Rupert's poem, The Pilgrmage of Thala, a legend?

[Nicholas]

The Buxton family has given all the Rupert Buxton material to the library at Christ Church College, Oxford.
This particular poem is handwritten in a school exercise book with some decorations along the page borders, probably by Rupert himself.  In my opinion, it is not very valuable as a poem.  Rupert was only about 15/16 when he wrote it, and it shows.  However, it does contain Rupert's fantasy of drowning and then passing into paradise.  There is a cut out photograph from a magazine to illustrate the pool where Thala drowns which could be said to resemble Sandford.  I firmly believe Rupert's and Michael's deaths were accidental, but acknowledge the strange situation where one man who had fantasies of drowning went for a swim with another who was terrified of water.

[LuciusVeradis]

Is there an electronic version of this poem and Buxton's other works? I noticed only a select few libraries have a copy of this text and they seem to be restricted as non-interlibrary loan eligible materials...

[Nicholas]

There is no other version of The pilgrimage of Thala other than the manuscript copy held in Christ Church Library, Oxford.  I wonder why this particular poem is attracting attention.