Dear Sir I have been so much interested by the book you have kindly sent me, in common with rest of the Author’s Society and, having had a little correspondence with you many years ago, when you were editing the English Plutarch, I venture to write, thinking you may care to hear some experiences of a long life of writing, not from necessity but because I had something to say.

The passion for telling a story developed ... continue reading

My dear Miss Blackburne

Thank you for the sight of this. I have sent the review on to Mr Shorthouse. That Glasgow paper must have clever people belonging to it, for they always make notices to the purpose

I have sent the proof to the printers, and hope it will get in this next April number.

It is very interesting to see what Mr Shorthouse likes as his interpretation Artistically I think it was a great ... continue reading