THOMAS HARDY.
LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
In " Tho Early Life of Thomas Hardy " his widow tells "us such little-known facts as that the family derived from the Jersey le Hardys an ancient name, and that Thomas often thought of restoring tho " lc " to bis name a;id calling himsell "Thomas le Hardy," but never did so; that ho was a descendant of tho Laptain Hardy, flag-captain of the Victory, in whose arms Nelson died at Trafalgar ; that as an infant a snake was found curled up in his rradle as he lay sleeping; that ho had a strong dislike of tho'touch of human hands, which never left him; that few portraits of his Dorset friends and neighbours appear in his novels; that ho used to say that when he carried a pocket-book his mind was " barren as the Sahara," so that many of his notes made in the country-side were taken down on " large dead leaves, white chips left by tne woodcutters, or pieces of stono or slate that came to hand."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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169THOMAS HARDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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