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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...deputations, reading of addresses, and so on. There was no time to feel the sadness. They were to go on the Saturday--we had been there from Wednesday. There was to be an Investiture at Dublin Castle and a farewell reception, after which they were to make their State exit. Dublin Castle was already a Red Cross Hospital. We had seen it opened before we went into the West. By the way, I had appealed for the hospital in various London papers, Selfridges having given up their advertising space for the purpose. The appeal brought me several donations of ten pounds to found a bed. I had made up with a couple of friends another ten pounds. I handed in the money and the names of the donors to be affixed to the beds. When it came to the opening ceremony I, of course, could not see my name on any bed, nor did I look for it, for I had given instructions that the composite bed was to be named simply the Friends' Bed. But people came to me that day of the opening and said: 'How generous you have been! You have endowed so many beds.' And one lady said: 'You extravagant woman! You told me you were ruined by the war, yet I see your beds all over the place!' Well, I was simple enough to think that some of my kind donors, who had expressed no special wish with regard to the beds, had written to say that my name should go on them. I had very kind replies from some whom I thanked, but I think, looking back, that there was a note of embarrassment in the replies. I made one or two efforts to set things right in the remaining cases--so far as I can remember, only one lady had expressed a definite wish--but I suppose nothing was done, and I am still looked upon as a generous donor. One lady, who had contributed to the Friends' Bed, never forgave me. I thought her coldness caprice, ...Hide synopsis
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Description:Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Date of Publication: 1919 Binding:...Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Date of Publication: 1919 Binding: hardcover Edition: First American Edition Condition: Very Good Description: Previous owner bookplate on inside front cover. Stain on top page edges. One page has closed tear on front edge. Binding tight, pages clean. Autobiography of a writer at the turn of the century in England. 343pp.
Description:Very Good+ Book A few tiny stains to spine between title &...Very Good+ Book A few tiny stains to spine between title & author lettering. No names, clean text. Printed in Great Britain. very good+, no dj, pale gray buckram. Tight, solid 341 pgs.
