The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Gissing, George · 1903

Transcribed from the 1903 Archibald Constable & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk 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 m…

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