Identifier: lifeartofrichard01wint (find matches)
Title: Life and art of Richard Mansfield : with selections from his letters
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
Publisher: New York : Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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abroad. Beatrice leavesshortly for England, to find a home—will you go up to seeher, and tell her about places—you know all about it, andcan give her the most valuable advice. It is to be a cottage, allour own, where love and comfort and a modest competencyare to attend our declining days—without regard to the nobilityand gentry of the neighborhood. It is to be hoped that youwill come and occasionally sojourn with Micawber! If youllcome to us in England, we will arrange to write The HumorousLife of Mansfield, By an Eye-Witness. My love to you, R. M. The purpose of establishing a permanent homefor himself in England had long been in his mind,but it was never fulfilled. At the close of this tour,which ended at Montreal on July 4, he sailed fromthat port, and he passed several weeks at Wey-bridge, one of the loveliest retreats in the lovelycounty of Surrey--a land that lures the tired mortalto stay in it forever. In the meantime he thuscheerily recorded his doings and impressions.
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RICHARD MANSFIELD WORKING FOR MONEY 265 St. Nicholas Hotel, St. Louis, April 10, 1902. My Dear Winter:— Sorry you are not quite all right—but I suppose Californiawill quickly make you well. Sorry too that you are not goingto England this summer. Beatrice will be sailing on the seabefore you get this. She leaves on Saturday, by the Minne-haha. She, the boy, and the governess. She will find a placein England, and I shall—D. V.—join her in July, leaving fromMontreal, where I close my season. If you had been on theother side, need I say how glad we should have been to havehad a long visit from you? I will send your letter to B. and perhaps some of theplaces you mention may attract her—but I fancy she will wantto be nearer London. Some of the so-called authors want tointerview me about plays—which become more and more diffi-cult to obtain. No one knows what to produce. Shakespearesplays have to be so garnished that the cost of production andthe subsequent cost of transportation

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