LECKY ANECDOTES.
Interesting things are told about Lecky, , the historian, who died 1 in October, by the "Freeman's Journal." His literary work was accomplished under difficulties, through his health being delicate. "Even the strain of writing in a sitting position was toogrea* for him, to bear. It was his habit to write for the most part lying prone upon !his bed, with his manuscript on his pillow. lij. his own house he had a, specially-constructed 1 couch on which to lie when engaged in his literary .work;, when travelling abroad the destruction of cotmterpanes in (hotel bedrooms was a considerable item. in. the expenses: He wrote with the same facility as # he spoke; in fact, but for a prejudice he had against it, he might have spared himself a vast amount of exertion by dictath his works. This, however, he never did., but wrote every word with his own pen at an immense expenditure of labour."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7892, 23 December 1903, Page 2
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