Richard Middleton, the man and his work . It gave him only anillness and a short story.* The great schemefailed somehow, he wrote soon afterwards,boyishly. I starved for four days and walked backfrom Brighton on my uppers. I had someadventures however. Have you ever livedfor four days on £0—0—0 ? It can be shall tell you about these things when I seeyou. At present I am a wreck stopping withmy people for a day or two. They think Ihave been on an ordinary walking tour andrather overdone it. I have seen dawns andsunsets |—I really have. And tramps andpolicemen and servants halls. I borrow
Richard Middleton, the man and his work . It gave him only anillness and a short story.* The great schemefailed somehow, he wrote soon afterwards,boyishly. I starved for four days and walked backfrom Brighton on my uppers. I had someadventures however. Have you ever livedfor four days on £0—0—0 ? It can be shall tell you about these things when I seeyou. At present I am a wreck stopping withmy people for a day or two. They think Ihave been on an ordinary walking tour andrather overdone it. I have seen dawns andsunsets |—I really have. And tramps andpolicemen and servants halls. I borrowed ashilling from a policeman at Norbury to helpme back to town ! I was half-arrested atBrighton for being homeless and Great Larks for short stories andthings. . He repeated this experiment in the summer,but with no greater success. What he learnt from * The Brighton Road, in The Ghost Ship and Other He was thinking of Masefields poem Beauty : I have seen dawns and sunsets on moors and windy hills, 130. irh-^l , RICHARD MIDDLETON. Caricature by H. B. Jlillar. 130 Love^ Toverty and Neuralgia his trampings was expressed in one of his Academyarticles for the year 1911. The man who is hardridden by his desires, he says therein, will findpeace no easier to win in the midst of the desertthan by his own fireside. His body may travelceaselessly between the two Poles ; his mind andhis heart are imprisoned still in their lifelongcells. One advantage only he saw in movingfrom one place to another : We shall neverdiscover Arcadia or escape the anguish of existence,but in a fresh environment we may succeed inexploring some untrodden byway of our ownnatures. The trouble with the landlord was patched upfor a time and settled finally towards the end ofthe year, when it was arranged that he shouldtake up his residence with myself. But thisarrangement, after some three months, also fellthrough. There is a parallel in the triangulardifficulty presented by Dr. J
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