FIVE POUNDS TO PAY
Carlyle, who found himself mulcted of nineteen shillings surcharge on a postal packet in pre-Rowland Hill days, was more fortunate than Sir Walter Scott," says the "Marichiester 'Guardian." One day there arrived at Abbotsford a heavy package from America on which the great novelist,had to pay £5 for postage. It contained the . manuscript of a many-act play, "The Cherokee Lovers," by a young person in New York, who modestly requested that he should read and correct it, write, a prologue, and arrange to have ,it published for .her by-Murray or Constable and produced at Drury Lane. A fortnight later a similar package arrived, with another £5 to pay. This contained a second-copy, of "The Cherokee Lovers,"., with a note from the authoress explaining that as the weather had been stormy over the Atlantic she thought it prudent to send him a duplicate, in case the, original had been, lost. The stormy conditions quicklyspread over Abbotsford.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 16
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159FIVE POUNDS TO PAY Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 16
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