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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

George Gissing

PREFACE

The name of Henry Ryecroft never became familiar to what is called the reading public。 A year ago obituary paragraphs in the literary papers gave such account of him as was thought needful: the date and place of his birth; the names of certain books he had written; an allusion to his work in the periodicals; the manner of his death。 At the time it sufficed。 Even those few who knew the man; and in a measure understood him; must have felt that his name called for no further celebration; like other mortals; he had lived and laboured; like other mortals; he had entered into his rest。 To me; however; fell the duty of examining Ryecroft's papers; and having; in the exercise of my discretion; decided to print this little volume; I feel that it requires a word or two of biographical plement; just so much personal detail as may point the significance of the self… revelation here made。

When first I knew him; Ryecroft had reached his fortieth year; for twenty years he had lived by the pen。 He was a struggling man; beset by poverty and other circumstances very unpropitious to mental work。 Many forms of literature had he tried; in none had he been conspicuously successful; yet now and then he had managed to earn a little more money than his actual needs demanded; and thus was enabled to see something of foreign countries。 Naturally a man of independent and rather scornful outlook; he had suffered much from defeated ambition; from disillusions of many kinds; from subjection to grim necessity; the result of it; at the time of which I am speaki

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