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Excerpt from Silvanus Phillips Thompson, D.Sc., LL. D., F. R. S: His Life and Letters
He was too busy a man to keep any autobiographical journal, or even brief daily diary, his little blue note books of the last fifteen years being the nearest approach to one. Nor was he after his marriage in 1881 a regular writer of letters, save to his wife on the exceptional occasions when she was not with him. We wish to thank many of his friends whose letters are quoted, and Mr. John Hassall for permission to reproduce the caricatures of Brother Magnetizer. We are most grateful for the kind way in which our request for the loan of his letters has been met by his friends. Of course we have to deplore that some of his correspondents either have not been able to find his letters or have not kept them, for some of the missing ones would have been the best revelation of the playful side of his nature so difficult to present, and which so endeared him to the circle of his family and his intimate friends. Again and again we have been conscious of the extreme difficulty for us, standing in such close relation to him as his wife and his daughter, to see the man in his true perspective. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
