Coniston - Complete (Paperback)

Excerpt: ...didn't have much to do with it, Eph. Thank the President." Ephraim did thank the President, in one of the most remarkable letters, from a literary point of view, ever received at the White House. For the art of literature largely consists in belief in what one is writing, and Ephraim's letter had this quality of sincerity, and no lack of vividness as well. He spent most of the evening in composing it. Cynthia, too, had received a letter that day