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Charles Thomas John Hiatt(1869-1904)

Description

autograph hunter

Biography

His mother ran a girls' school in Wellington, Shropshire, which may explain his reading Atalanta. He tried a similar trick on Thomas Hardy to obtain his autograph: see Martin Ray, 'Thomas Hardy's Letter to Charles Hiatt' Notes and Queries 53 (2006), 338.