This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...had its story at the tips of his fingers, from which it was continually running down into his pen. Walter Thornbury was one of the most industrious of literary men. He was a novelist, a poet, an art critic, a traveller, a biographer, and a prince of Bohemia. In the year 1874, when the letter was written which I have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...had its story at the tips of his fingers, from which it was continually running down into his pen. Walter Thornbury was one of the most industrious of literary men. He was a novelist, a poet, an art critic, a traveller, a biographer, and a prince of Bohemia. In the year 1874, when the letter was written which I have placed in his "Haunted London," I was assisting in getting up a benefit for a popular low comedian, who, though not often on the stage now, is "still" a popular low comedian. So it came about that Walter Thornbury's characteristic letter enclosing money for two stalls came into my possession. Thornbury, as will be seen by the sample, wrote a puzzling hand. It was nearly as bad as Dean Stanley's. There are two words in his letter, the two preceding the signature, which I never was able to decipher, and I cannot now: 13 Abingdon Villas, Kensington, W. November 10, 1874. My dear Low very lo. Comedian, --Please send me 2 stalls for your benefit--though far from flush after 4 months' illness and idleness. I enclose the xes--borrowed, of course. Right you are, &c. &c. Yours truly, A. B. C. Odell, Esq. G. Walter Thornbury. Thornbury, in addition to his terrific output in the book line, wrote hundreds of sketches and short stories for "Chambers's Journal," "Household Words," and "All the Year Round." He travelled in Spain and Turkey and the United States, and wrote his experiences, but his travels in "Haunted London" will, I think, carry his name farthest into the years to come. He was a marvellous worker, and was slaving away till within a few days of his death. He died suddenly in 1876, a victim to ceaseless production at high pressure. He was only forty-eight when the blow fell, and t...
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