Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — Authors’ Handwriting. [ARTICLE]

Authors’ Handwriting.

If readers and admirers of the polished sentences of popular authors could see the original manuscripts from which their works are printed they would be given Interesting sidelights on the character and personality of the writers. The handwriting of G. K. Chesterton has been described by an English editor as “shocking.” _W. W. Jacobs, comedy writer of the sea, has all his literary work typed and makes but few corrections on the finished manuscript. Other English writers whose copy Is reputed to be neat and quite acceptable to a printer are H.’, G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Editors say they never know what to expect from that Imaginative genius, H. de Vere Stacpoole. Sometimes his work Is neatly typed on good paper, but often it Is scribbled to sheets-torn from a copybook.