Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Autograph Collection and the Making of It
The seven facsimiles chosen are of fragments reproduced exactly to the original scale. I avoid using letters, because if one page alone is given, only part of the whole can be read, and the reproduction of several written pages is awkward in a book.
I am indebted to the editor of the Cornhill Magazine for per mission to reprint part of this volume. Much of its arrangement follows the form taken by my articles in that periodical. I have not published any letter by a living person. No material is used which is not to be found in my own possession. I have not sought to strain the relationships of the letters which I have chosen from my collection, and I have tried not to include any that are devoid of interest.
I add the final chapter, both parts of which deal with my country home, for two reasons. One is that they illustrate what is to me the fascination of literary links. The other is that I believe that many people could add to the interest of their own houses if they took the trouble which to me has been a pleasure.
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