The life and letters of Theodore Watts-Dunton . XXIV. Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton and I. BY CLARA WATTS-DUNTON. T HAVE been asked by the authors of this biographyto contribute a chapter about my marriage withWaher Theodore Watts-Dunton. In complying withtheir request, I know it is impossible to do much morethan give in outline the story of a heavenly relation-ship. Part of what I must write even in so doing mayseem to some people more appropriate to other pensthan mine, for there are those who regard the reticenceof the bereaved as if it were a tribute beautiful as flowersto days that are no


The life and letters of Theodore Watts-Dunton . XXIV. Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton and I. BY CLARA WATTS-DUNTON. T HAVE been asked by the authors of this biographyto contribute a chapter about my marriage withWaher Theodore Watts-Dunton. In complying withtheir request, I know it is impossible to do much morethan give in outline the story of a heavenly relation-ship. Part of what I must write even in so doing mayseem to some people more appropriate to other pensthan mine, for there are those who regard the reticenceof the bereaved as if it were a tribute beautiful as flowersto days that are no more. But I hold that it is wellto transmit to the living ones bright and lovely mem-ories, and in performing this task I remember that myhusband was always pleased when I told a new friend,as I sometimes did, the romantic story of our to the kindly pressure applied to my pen by thoseof the public who are interested in the makers of liter-ature, I may remark that, shortly after my husbandsdeath, I received from Mr. Stringer Bateman, a


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