Letters Collected and Edited by His Son Vol 1 (Paperback)

This 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. 1912. Excerpt: ... Human nature will out, sometimes--Potter, and Nellie, and Potter's mother, and Nellie's mother, and Tuck's wife. So there, you see: your jealousy brings it on you three times instead of once. Adieu --Your loving George M. To William Hardman. School House, Norwich, Oct. 4, 1862. Dear Sir, --I take the liberty to write to you, requesting a line of information, concerning one, Tuck, a ruddy man and a lusty, with whom I suppose you to be acquainted, and about whom I have recently been feeling a considerable anxiety. He has relations at Hoddeston, Tunbridge Wells, and Norwich; but they have no recent knowledge of his proceedings. I have written to him, and can get no reply. You will acknowledge that I have cause for anxiety when I tell you that in a work I have lately been reading, it is said, with regard to fleshpots, that he who giveth his heart to them is on the highroad to perdition. Which was truly and sadly the case with this named Tuck. A dangerous man, Sir for he tempteth us to love this life, and esteems it a cherishable thing: yet, withal, one whom to know once is to desire ever. For indeed such a one is seldom seen. Pity that such roseate healthful bloom as that he wore upon the cheeks of him should be a banner of Repletion Alas and that the sunny perfection delighting us in him signified verily, that Nature, though proud of this, struggled greatly. Even so, the notable rotundity, the fine protuberance, was excess of Potatoe Yea, and also the very perfectness of him partook too largely of Francatelli. Hence my fear for the man: in that he, who was good himself as an egg fresh-laid, had a love of things good, and did attract them to him profusely: which is against one of the decrees. Dear Sir Should you see him, and the faithful and loving spouse...