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Search - John Addington Symonds; A Biography - Vol I

John Addington Symonds A Biography Vol I
Author: John Addington Symonds

PREFACE BY MRS. SYMONDS MR. HORATIO F. BROWNw as, by my husbands will, left his literary executor, and in a few pathetic last words to me, written in a trembling hand on the last day of his short illness at Rome, when I, unhappily, was not by his side, he reminded me of this ROME, Ajn7 I 8, 1893. there is something I ought to tell you, and being... more » ill at Rome, I take this occasion. If I do not see you again in this life, you remember that I made H. F. Brown the depositary of my published books. I wish that legacy to cover all MSS., diaries, letters, and other matters found in my books, and cupboard, with the exception of business papers. . . . Brown will consult and publish nothing without your consent.-Ever yours, J. A. SYMONDS. You are ill at Venice, and I - have fallen here. To make a selection among this mass of written matter of all sorts has been a difficult task. NO . Y vi PREFACE BY MRS. SYMONDS one could have brought to it more perfect knowledge, delicacy, and sympathy than the friend of twenty years, to whom my husband had written, in almost daily letters, all the various interests and problems with which his active brain was filled, and I am well satisfied that the portrait of him which the world will read should have been drawn by that faithful hand. J. C. S. P R E F A C E THE object which I proposed to myself in con piling this book was twofold. I desired, if possible, to present a portrait of a singular personality, and I hoped to be able to achieve this object mainly by allowing Symonds to speak for himself-to tell his own story. The book, in short, was to be as closely autobiographical as I could make it. The material at my disposal was unusually abundant. I imagine that few men of letters have left behind them, in addition to some thirty published volumes, such a mass of letters, diaries, note-books, and memoranda as that which has passed through my hands. . This material is of two kinds, that which came into my possession under Symonds will, and that which has been supplied to me by relations and friends. My own material consists of I diaries, introspective and emotional 2 a series of notebooks labelled gpyu ra , uipac, in which he recorded day by day such external facts as the books he read, the essays he wrote, the dinner parties which he gave or attended, the bare outlines of journeys , which he took 3 an autobiography 4 a miscellaneous collection of papers, including copies of many of his letters which Symonds himself reckoned important and 5 the whole of his correspondence with me, which began in 1872, and was carried on most copiously and regularly down to the very last. The material supplied to me by relations and friends consists of Symonds voluminous correspondence with his sister Charlotte, Mrs. Green, with Mr. W. K. W. Stephens, with Mr. H. G. Dakyns, with Mr. Henry Sidgwick and Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, besides smaller collections of letters addressed to Mr. T. H. Warren, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, to Mrs. Koss, to Mr. W. Barclay Squire, to Mr. Edmund Gosse who also kindly procured me the use of the letters to Mr. R. L. Stevenson, to the Honourable Roden Noel, to Lord Ronald Gower, and, to many others whose names will generally be found when letters to them are quoted. My thanks are due to all of these for so kindly allowing me to examine their correspondence. Miss Margaret Symonds has also written an account of her fathers last journey, when she was, as she had often been, his companion. This is printed in the last chapter...

ISBN-13: 9781408635230
ISBN-10: 1408635232
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 446
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