Now known mainly as the publisher of Arrowsmith’s Bristol Channel Tide Table, the Arrowsmith of Bristol printed a number of works for Symonds, including publicly published verse, and pamplets of poetry for circulation to friends and correspondants¹ Though the pamphlets were intended for a select audience, Symonds told Edward Clifford that he had omitted several favoured poems since “they might astonish Mr Arrowsmith too much.”²)

J.W. Arrowsmith was later responsible for commissioning and soliciting funds for Bristol’s statue of Edward Colston. The statue was finally torn down and thrown into the harbour during Bristol’s All Black Lives protest in 2020. See: https://museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php?irn=16401

1. Phyllis Groskurth. John Addington Symonds. A Biography. Published by Longmans, London, 1964. p168. [↩]
2. John Addington Symonds, The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Vol 2, ed. by Herbert M. Schueller & Robert L. Peters (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968), p. 210 [↩]