THE AUTOGRAPH FIEND.
A friend of Tennysom, Dr. Dabbs, who resides in the Isle of Wight, sends te the press a pathetio appeal illustrating the utter unscrupulousness of the autograph hunter. " The last book Lord Tennyson gave me (he writes) had in tt n very tender inscription. It was ' Becket.' That book, 'one summer day/ was taken out of my eonsujting-room and was returned to me by parcel-post (postmark Bedford) with those dediqttlory lines cut out. Now, will the thief or "thieves who did me this injury repent) and cease to disturb my charity, by restoring me those priceless words in the penmanship of a (then) dying poet? Or must I for ever still try to stifle back the imminent anathema when I think of him? Is there no such thing as honour among autograph-hunters? lam told not..'<
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Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)
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138THE AUTOGRAPH FIEND. Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)
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