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To: Nikas777
This may have been the father of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The elder Manley Hopkins was Hawaii's Consul-General in London.

It would probably have been better for Gerard, though not for poetry, if the family had actually lived in Hawaii, rather than London.

38 posted on 09/03/2009 1:49:15 PM PDT by x
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To: x

I think you are correct.


39 posted on 09/03/2009 1:50:29 PM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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