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. 1912 Excerpt: ... runs out of letter-paper, then has to fall back on his MS. quarto-post, as in the present instance, which pray excuse. We were glad to make your better acquaintance, though your visit was done as soon as begun. "I only know" that, like the poet's infant, you "came and went"--and that I drove to Portsmouth & back on ...
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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. 1912 Excerpt: ... runs out of letter-paper, then has to fall back on his MS. quarto-post, as in the present instance, which pray excuse. We were glad to make your better acquaintance, though your visit was done as soon as begun. "I only know" that, like the poet's infant, you "came and went"--and that I drove to Portsmouth & back on three successive days. Literally, a flying visit. It now occurs to me that, after all, you got nothing of what you came for--i. e., nothing to help you, outside of your own artistic handling & imagination, to make any sort of a paper about the boyhood of my uninteresting self. In T. B. A.'s case, you had the best boy's story ever written--and, now I think of it, for scrapes and experiences, my own "bad-boyhood" was about the same as his own, & in very near a second " Rivermouth." I had thought of nothing to tell you. And what does one know of what he really was & seemed as a boy? Those who then tended him are the ones to cross-examine. There are still folks in old Norwich--(pronounced Norridge--to rhyme with porridge, vide "Mother Goose") who could tell much more of my unusual and perverse boyhood than I can myself. But I do recall that you asked me who were my friends and mates, & that I only mentioned my fishing, trapping, hunting, with Ira. But I did have, after all, more boys with me, daily, than is usual outside of boarding school. My great-uncle & guardian had a reputation for managing boys, St there were many reared & educated in his house. Three pairs of us were there during my stay--from my sixth to my fifteenth year--after which I was transferred to Yale. Three pairs of brothers--Smilio & Virgilio Lesaga (Cubans), Hunt & Turville Adams.Edmund & Ch...
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