Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1905 — Thackeray's odd Ways. [ARTICLE]

Thackeray's odd Ways.

'“He “wrote a very small, neat hand and used slips of note paper,” said the late John Holliugshead of London concerning Thackeray. “These be would often gather up and put in his coat pocket, leaving his secretary at work, -and stroll down to the Athenaeum club. Here, if he could get a comfortable table and was not waylaid by any gossip, to whom lie was always ready to •give an attentive ear, he would pull out his slips and carry his story a few «teps farther. In an hour or two he wonld ogam i-oUert ttoe scattered, pa-pens-and, gp on to the Garrick club. . where;, if not interrupted, be would resume liW writing. This habit of composing In public rrtghttmed many of the old club fogies, who thought.they ■were being caricatured for posterity, and no doubt helped to get him blackballed at the Travelers’.”