Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 398
ce visited him. Walpole and Darwin are, of course,incomparably greater men than Gibber and AlbertSmith, but these last two have a curious fascinationfor me. I read Smiths Christopher Tadpole andThe Scattergood Family when I was a boy, and hisfigure flits elusively in the background of… … H£li£FOR.D SQU/!R£ CONCLUSION 347 work at home wore a blue blouse. I recall him,he says, as a sturdy-looking, broad-shouldered, short-necked man, with grey eyes and flowing locks of lightbrown, and large side-whiskers; later in life he worea beard. His voice was a high treble. His studyin Percy…
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