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Excerpt from A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself: Embellished by Numerous Wood Engravings, Designed by the Author for a Work on British Fishes
Was conspicuously absent from the papers as they reached me. The oldest baptismal certifi cate lay placidly enshrined in the folds of the latest invitation to tea, while yellow and ancient deeds of the last century, and letters with frayed edges and faded ink, written when George was King, elbowed the most recent records of the laundry, or the offensive blue of the most modern legal foolscap. Many things had been begun with which no progress had been made. There were notes for a collection of corres pondence; there were fragmentary biographies of members of the family; there were copious headings for authentic accounts of business disputes; there were sympathetic commentaries on unsympathetic criticisms - but all these, new and old, were hopelessly jumbled together, and it was impossible to be sure that the most unpromising looking packet did not contain the most precious particulars. After sundry attempts at classification, and diligent prospecting for two or three weeks, I came to the conclusion that, as regarded the direct elucidation and annotation of the Memoir, the yield would scarcely be great. Not that the papers were by any means barren of interest. As might be.
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