HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Autograph letter signed to Leonard Huxley, Max Gate, 22 December 1923, 2 pages, 8vo . A reminiscence of the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd , fifty years after its first appearance in the Cornhill Magazine : 'it was on Plymouth Hoe, on New Year's Eve, that I discovered the story to have started'. Hardy recalls his 'consternation' on seeing it, since the story was run earlier than had been intended with 'only a few chapters being written'. The letter goes on to refer to Helen Paterson, the illustrator of the story, as the unknowing addressee of some of his Late Lyrics . Leonard Huxley was editor of the Cornhill and distinguished biographer of his father, TH Huxley, and of Sir Joseph Hooker. Helen Paterson, whom Hardy met because of her involvement with the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd , married the poet William Allingham a bare month before Hardy's marriage to Emma Gifford. Hardy remarked to Edmund Gosse that 'these two almost simultaneous weddings would have been one but for a stupid blunder of God Almighty'. His later poem 'The Opportunity', dedicated 'for H.P.', is assumed to refer to this.
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Autograph letter signed to Leonard Huxley, Max Gate, 22 December 1923, 2 pages, 8vo . A reminiscence of the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd , fifty years after its first appearance in the Cornhill Magazine : 'it was on Plymouth Hoe, on New Year's Eve, that I discovered the story to have started'. Hardy recalls his 'consternation' on seeing it, since the story was run earlier than had been intended with 'only a few chapters being written'. The letter goes on to refer to Helen Paterson, the illustrator of the story, as the unknowing addressee of some of his Late Lyrics . Leonard Huxley was editor of the Cornhill and distinguished biographer of his father, TH Huxley, and of Sir Joseph Hooker. Helen Paterson, whom Hardy met because of her involvement with the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd , married the poet William Allingham a bare month before Hardy's marriage to Emma Gifford. Hardy remarked to Edmund Gosse that 'these two almost simultaneous weddings would have been one but for a stupid blunder of God Almighty'. His later poem 'The Opportunity', dedicated 'for H.P.', is assumed to refer to this.
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