Category: Biographies
I dedicate to you this slight tribute to the memory of our friend. You were the luckier, in knowing him the longer. I shall be more than content if you find, in reading this book, as I found in reading his letters again, that he has returned to us even for a moment and that a...
I dedicate to you this slight tribute to the memory of our friend. You were the luckier, in knowing him the longer. I shall be more than content if you find, in reading this boo...
2. Part 2For a man who must surely have divined that his calibre was unique, Teixeira was engagingly free from touchiness. In translating a book, as in organizing a department, he was ma...
3. Part 3_The Sehr Hochwohlgeboren und Verdammter Graf Zeppelin, ~he writes on 25.18.16~, did some damage last night at Greenwich, Blackwall (a power-station) etc. For the rest, no news....
4. Part 4_We should always guard ourselves against the bees in our bonnets. When I produced Zola’s ~Heirs of Rabourdin~, the stage-manager said his play-actors couldn’t pronounce Monsieu...
5. Part 5_(I have read both down here and prefer ~Kipps~. The phrases underlined, quoted in the ~Times~ notice (attached) of Wells’ Polly-Kippsian “~History of the World~” reminds me irr...
6. Part 6_Beardsley’s output was immense, for his years. Ought not the world to be grateful for it? He told me once that he had an itch for work; and it looked afterwards as if he knew t...
7. Part 7_I’ve had a little petty cash from the Couperus books. It’s been amusing to see that ~Small Souls~ in a given six months produces 15 times as much in America as in this benighte...
8. Part 8_... The new arrivals include a long, lean man ... and his wife. His hair is dyed to suggest 55; he is probably a cadaverous 77. He comes down to dinner in a white tie and tails...
9. Part 9_... If you think that I have much to tell you, ~he adds, 20.8.21~, you are mistaken. Y’day I went for a stroll, turned up a footpath which I imagined would bring me back here,...