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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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THE
PRIVATE
PAPERS
OF
HENRY
RYECROFT
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
complement,
just
so
much
personal
detail
as
may
point
the
significance
of
the
self-revelation
here
made.
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